Devata is a partner in the labor and employment practice group of the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP. She specializes in all aspects of employment defense, including counseling, training, and litigation. She also has extensive experience with employment litigation in administrative agencies, as well as the Fair Credit Reporting Act and state laws affecting background screening. Devata counsels both employers and providers (resellers and consumer reporting agencies) on compliance requirements under the FCRA and related state laws and has been involved in litigation regarding these issues.

Elliott is an attorney and c-suite adviser with more than 20 years of executive and legal experience in the workforce solutions and staffing industry. Her diverse experience in both the practice of law and executive management offers unique value-added legal solutions to her clients. Prior to launching Staffing GC, Elliott served for 15 years as general counsel at Elwood Staffing, one of the largest U.S. light industrial staffing and workforce solutions firms. With Elwood Staffing, Elliott served on the executive committee and partnered with the board of directors, officers, shareholders, and other crossfunctional team leaders to help grow and scale Elwood Staffing from a $160 million company to a nearly $1 billion enterprise with more than 250 service locations, 130,000 contingent employees assigned across more than 6,000 diverse client facilities, and 1,000 internal corporate employees. Elliott earned a bachelor of science degree in business from Purdue University and juris doctor degree from Valparaiso University School of Law.