Lawyers / Professionals

 
Rebecca Signer Roche       
Associate
1750 Tysons Boulevard
Suite 1800
McLean, Virginia 22102-4215
T: 703.712.5378
F: 703.712.5212
rroche@mcguirewoods.com
 

Ms. Roche practices within the firm's Labor and Employment Department, where she focuses on employment discrimination, non-compete litigation and wrongful discharge.


Practices & Industries
Previous Experience
  • Law Clerk, the Hon. Donald M. Haddock, the Hon. Lisa B. Kemler, the Hon. Nolan B. Dawkins, the Hon. John E. Kloch (retired), City of Alexandria Circuit Court, Alexandria, Virginia, 2006-2008
  • Director, Member Retention, Corporate Executive Board, Washington, D.C., 1998-2003

Publications
  • Contributor, "Suits in the Workplace," McGuireWoods LLP Employment Law Blog, 2009
  • "Washington, D.C. Passes Law Making Paid Leave Mandatory," 2008

Speaking Engagements
  • "Legal Issues and Policy Training," (management training for client), July 2009
  • "A Brief Review of Search and Seizure Law in Virginia," March 2009
  • "Advanced Employment Law Seminar: The D.C. Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act," November 2008
  • "The D.C. Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act," September 2008

Professional Affiliations
  • Virginia State Bar
  • Virginia Bar Association
  • District of Columbia Bar

Civic Affiliations
  • Professional Development Conference Committee, VSB Young Lawyers Conference
 

EDUCATION

University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Virginia, J.D., 2006

  • Trial Advocacy Board
  • Moot Court Executive Board
  • Associate Solicitations Editor, Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., Visiting Student, 2005-2006

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, B.A. Foreign Affairs, 1998

 
 

ADMITTED

Virginia 2006

District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 2009

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Washington, D.C.