Betsy Johnson, Shareholder at Ogletree Deakins, P.C.

Betsy Johnson has represented employers in California since 1985 and 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 is an experienced advocate whose 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 is an accomplished college basketball player. Ms. Johnson received her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of South Carolina and a JD from the University of South Carolina.