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Frances Rogers

Associate, San Diego

619.400.4954
frogers@lcwlegal.com

Frances Rogers provides representation and legal counsel to clients in all matters pertaining to labor, employment and education law.  Frances has extensive litigation, arbitration, and administrative hearing related experience, including deposition and discovery, settlement, court proceedings and advocacy before State and local administrative officers and tribunals.  Frances is experienced in conducting and assisting with investigations pertaining to harassment, discrimination, internal affairs and other employee misconduct. Frances also advises public agencies on retirement issues, including local safety disability retirement and compliance with other state and federal employment laws.

Frances has represented and advised community college districts and school districts in several areas including student discipline, campus safety and police, teacher/faculty/classified discipline, reduction-in-force, merit system, hiring, leaves, and Brown Act. In 2008, Frances served as Interim General Counsel for a California community college district. In 2009 and 2010, Frances was chosen as a Northern California Rising Star in the field of Employment & Labor Law.

Frances is also a contributing author to the firm's California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog.

Prior to joining Liebert Cassidy Whitmore Frances worked for a Central Valley firm handling a variety of civil litigation. 

Representative Matters

Litigation

  • IAFF, Fresno City Firefighters Assoc., Local 753 v. City of Fresno (2010) - Labor union filed a petition for temporary restraining order and permanent injunction to block the City's intended work furloughs. We successfully defeated the petition for temporary restraining order and the union thereafter dismissed the petition for permanent injunction.
  • Santa Maria Police Officers Association v. City of Santa Maria (2010) - Police Officers Association (POA) filed a petition for writ of mandate to block the City's enforcment of a police officer shift bidding system, alleging the City's action violated the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.  After hearing the petition, the court decided in favor of the City.
  • Ellis v. City of Reedley (2007) - (Not Reported) Former police officer sued City-employer for several claims relating to his termination, including disability discrimination and failure to provide reasonable accommodation and engage in the interactive process under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We successfully obtained summary judgment in favor of the City on all three ADA causes of action.

Affiliations

San Diego County Bar Association

Awards

Selected for inclusion in Northern California Rising Star in the field of Employment & Labor Law, 2010

Selected for inclusion in Northern California Rising Star in the field of Employment & Labor Law, 2009

Publications

Presentations

Education

  • JD, Santa Clara University School of Law
  • BS, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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