Wandini Riggins

Wandini Riggins is an associate in the firm’s Litigation and Labor & Employment Practice Groups, where she brings a practical, solutions-oriented approach to helping employers navigate complex workplace challenges and disputes. A former entrepreneur, Wandini strives to craft clear, actionable guidance that balances legal compliance with operational realities. Her practice spans counseling, internal investigations and advocacy in federal and state courts, and before administrative agencies. Specifically, she focuses on guiding employers through the evolving landscape of federal and state employment laws. She conducts sensitive and thorough workplace investigations and counsels clients regarding such issues as constructive discharge, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability accommodation, personnel policies, restrictive covenants and alternative dispute resolution. She is a member of the Association of Workplace Investigators.

Additionally, Wandini represents employers in litigated matters involving non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, business torts and contract disputes. She regularly defends clients in federal and state court, as well as before administrative bodies. Beyond employment law, Wandini also handles business and construction disputes, serious injury claims, professional liability matters and cases involving construction accidents.

Prior to joining Bose McKinney & Evans, Wandini served as a deputy senior judicial law clerk to the Honorable Elizabeth F. Tavitas of the Court of Appeals of Indiana. In that role, she analyzed state and federal laws and regulations, reviewed civil and criminal judgments, assisted in preparing judicial memoranda, provided legal counsel, and aided judges in clarifying issues of law, informing public policy and establishing precedent.

Wandini also served as a staff attorney for the Indiana General Assembly’s Office of Bill Drafting and Research, where she drafted proposed legislation and staffed meetings of the Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee of the Indiana House of Representatives and the Commerce and Technology Committee of the Indiana Senate. Additionally, she has held positions as an associate attorney at an Indianapolis law firm, as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Carr L. Darden and the Honorable Michael P. Barnes of the Court of Appeals of Indiana, and as a deputy prosecuting attorney for the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office.

Honors / Awards

Indiana Super Lawyer (2014-2015); Indiana Super Lawyers Rising Star (2013)

Appearances / Publications

Speaker:

•“Ethics - Conflicts of Interest” (Indiana Continuing Education Forum 2020, 2021)
•“All Things Title IX: From New Anti-Harassment Procedures to Transgender Accommodations” (ISBA, June 2023)