Holly R. Rogers

Holly R. Rogers is a partner in Dilworth Paxson’s Litigation Department and the Labor and Employment group. Ms. Rogers’ Litigation practice includes appellate and complex commercial litigation. Ms. Rogers also has extensive experience with labor and employment matters including litigating employment matters in State and Federal Courts. She also regularly appears in grievance proceedings, arbitration, mediation, local agency hearings, and before administrative agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights.

Representative Experience

• Represented employer in trade secret and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims in District Court of New Jersey.
• Represented against a former employee's charge of discrimination based on an alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Represented against a current employee's charge of discrimination based on race in a mediation before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
• Represented against a former employee's charges of defamation and reverse discrimination based on gender in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
• Represented against a former employee's charge of discrimination based on gender before the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
• Represented a staffing company against one of its client's charges/allegations of respondent superior for alleged tortious actions of an employee in Philadelphia County arbitration.
• Represented against a former employee's breach of contract charge and obtained a defense verdict in jury trial in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County.
• Represented against a former employee's charge of alleged violations of the Family Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Pennsylvania Human Relations Act in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Represented employer in alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, ("ERISA") in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Represented employer in claims against Pension Fund Trustees for alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, ("ERISA") in United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

Professional & Community Activities

• Board of Directors, Harvard Radcliffe Club of Philadelphia
• Clerked for Judge Scirica of The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2002-2003
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Member, ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law
• Member, National LGBT Bar Association
• Committee Member, Philadelphia Bar Association Federal Practice

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