Laura Petroff 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, Petroff 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.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers | 2026 | Labor & Employment, esp. Litigation |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers | 2025 | Labor & Employment, esp. Litigation |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Corporate Employment Lawyers | 2024 | Labor & Employment, esp. Litigation |
| Lawdragon Releases Latest Guide to the Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers in America | 2022 | Labor & Employment, esp. Litigation |
| Lawdragon's Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers of America | 2021 | Labor & Employment, esp. Litigation |
| Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers | 2020 | Labor & Employment, esp. Litigation |
Petroff represents employers in the consumer and luxury goods, financial services, medical devices, manufacturing, professional services, health care, and retail industries, among others.
Petroff’s representative clients include the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; Accenture; Bakkavor Foods; Brookfield; Cboe; Clune Construction Company; Echo Global Logistics; Fluidra USA; Guggenheim Partners Investment Management; The Hertz Corporation; JP Morgan Chase Bank; Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.; Lilly; Los Angeles Dodgers LLC; LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton; Louis Vuitton North America, Inc.; Marsh & McLennan; Northern Trust; Nuveen Investments; Medtronic, Inc.; Nissin Foods (USA); Northern Trust; SunPower Corporation; Symphony Asset Management; Wasserman Media Group and Zodiac Pool Systems, LLC.