Experience
Legal Expertise
Thea Rogers provides strategic counsel to employers on a wide range of workplace and compliance matters. She advises on federal, state, and local employment laws; drafts and negotiates employment agreements; and ensures compliance with wage and hour laws, leave laws, prevailing wage requirements, and background check regulations.
Thea frequently works with management and HR teams to enhance employee engagement and retention by developing tailored employee handbooks and personnel policies, conducting internal investigations, and delivering effective workplace harassment prevention training for management and staff. She also has deep experience advising on the employment of minors in the entertainment industry, including compliance with state and union requirements.
Thea began her career in leveraged finance, representing institutional lenders in commercial finance transactions—experience that informs her practical, solution-oriented approach to advising employers.
Professional, Business and civic Affiliations
- Beverly Hills Bar Association, Labor & Employment and Empowering Women sections
Other Career Experience
Associate, Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP
Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Headlines
Headlines
- September 17, 2024
- May 26, 2021
Publications
Author, “Epic Systems V. Lewis: PAGA’s Epic Demise?” Law360, June 4, 2018.
Author, “New Calif. ‘National Origin’ Rules Stray From Federal Policy” Law360, June 8, 2018.
Client Alerts
- November 25, 2025
- October 20, 2025
- June 13, 2024
- May 2, 2024
- April 8, 2024
- March 18, 2024
- October 18, 2023
- October 11, 2023
- March 23, 2023
- February 23, 2023
- January 10, 2023
- June 21, 2021
- June 7, 2021
- March 23, 2021
- December 22, 2020
- December 7, 2020
- December 7, 2020
- November 24, 2020
- November 6, 2020
- Employers May Test Employees for COVID-19 Before Allowing Their Return to Workplace, EEOC SaysApril 24, 2020
- DOL Issues Guidance on New CARES Act Unemployment Insurance ProvisionsApril 8, 2020
- March 2, 2020
Events & Speaking Engagements
- December 10, 2025
- May 29, 2024
- January 10, 2024
- January 11, 2023
- April 28, 2021
Multimedia
Practice Areas
Admissions
- California
- New York
- Texas
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
Georgetown University, B.A., magna cum laude
