Sharon Mollman Elliott

Ms. Sharon M.
Elliott is Counsel at Foley & Lardner LLP (Venture Capital).
As a member of the Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Labor & Employment Practices and the Trade Secret/Noncompete Specialty Practice, she focuses on complex commercial litigation and employment litigation and counseling, particularly in the areas of trade secrets and non-competition agreements.
Ms. Mollman Elliott has extensive experience in both invalidating and enforcing non-competition and confidentiality agreements, and in obtaining and defeating preliminary injunctions.
She uses her knowledge in invalidating non-competition and confidentiality agreements to draft restrictive covenants for all contexts.
She is also well-versed in employment litigation.
She counsels employers on employee discipline and termination, wage and hour issues, disability and FMLA requests, and sexual harassment and discrimination claims.
Ms. Mollman Elliott was a law clerk for the Honorable Richard S.
Arnold, chief judge of the U.S.
Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
She is a 1993 summa cum laude graduate of the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana, where she was the senior managing editor of the Law Journal and a member of the Order of the Coif.
She earned a B.S.
in biomedical science in 1986 from Ohio University.