Laura R Petroff

Practice Areas

With more than 30 years of experience as a labor and employment litigator and counselor, Laura represents major employers in all aspects of employment relations, including litigation and preventive counseling and guidance. She has extensive experience defending employers in class actions, and also in multi- and single-plaintiff cases in state and federal courts, and has consistently achieved favorable results both before and at trial and arbitration. Clients say “she is a very strong, aggressive, and extremely confident adviser” (Chambers USA 2018) and “incredibly talented and knowledgeable” (Chambers USA 2022). Laura was honored with a 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award by ALM’s California Legal Awards.

Laura guides clients through their most significant employment-related challenges, including litigation and also protection of assets, prevention of employee raiding, managing trade secrets and non-competes, and working to achieve high-level management goals without meaningful disruption, fees, and costs generated by extended litigation.

In litigation, Laura has extensive experience in disputes involving sexual harassment, all types of discrimination, retaliation, whistleblower, and non-competition agreement matters; and she has focused considerable attention on defending employers in class actions, particularly wage and hour cases.

Laura represents employers in the consumer and luxury goods, financial services, medical devices, manufacturing, professional services, health care, and retail industries, among others.