MILWAUKEE, WI (Sept. 13, 2018) ─ Godfrey & Kahn is pleased to announce that Rebeca López, an attorney in the firm’s Labor & Employment Law Practice Group, has been named an Up & Coming Lawyer by the Wisconsin Law Journal.
López assists clients with a wide variety of day-to-day and complex employment matters, including addressing disability and leave accommodation requests, wage and hour complaints, employment discrimination allegations, enforcing (and challenging) former and current employee restrictive covenant obligations, and legal issues that arise when hiring and terminating employees. Rebeca also assists clients with drafting and enforcing employment policies and agreements.
López is very active in the community and has served on numerous non-profit boards. In 2016, she was named one of Wisconsin’s 48 most Powerful Latinos and in 2015, she was honored as one of The Business Journal of Milwaukee’s Forty Under 40 and named to the Wisconsin Pro Bono Honor Society.
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs, Spanish Language and Literature from Marquette University and her law degree, magna cum laude, from Marquette University Law School.
With more than 160 lawyers, Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is one of Wisconsin's leading business law firms. Founded in 1957, Godfrey & Kahn maintains offices in Milwaukee, Madison, Appleton, Green Bay and Waukesha, Wis.; and Washington, DC. For more information, please visit the firm's website at www.gklaw.com.
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