Betsy Johnson has represented employers in California since 1985. Ms. Johnson actively partners with her clients to seek innovative and practical ways to best meet their unique needs. Ms. Johnson works with California-based small and medium employers, as well as large multi-state employers. Ms. Johnson provides day-to-day advice on employment matters and “best practices.” She believes in taking a proactive approach to developing, drafting and implementing personnel and pay practice policies and procedures, employee compensation, managing employee performance, creating strategies for managing disability and leave of absence issues, and assisting in corporate reorganizations. Ms. Johnson’s areas of expertise include: state and federal wage and hour, employee compensation, employee leaves of absence, discrimination and harassment, performance management, discipline and termination, restrictive covenants and RIFs and reorganizations. 

Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Ms. Johnson practiced in New York and represented the NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) in labor relations matters, including representing the PBA as Special Counsel at the NYC Pension Trust Fund. In college, Ms. Johnson played basketball for the University of South Carolina Lady Gamecocks. She also played basketball for Warwick University, winners of the English Inter-Collegiate Basketball Championship, the Coventry Cougars and on the English National All-Star Team.