Biography
Rebecca serves as a trusted counselor, assisting clients in navigating sensitive and high-stakes issues. Her work involves collaborating with boards and management on executive hiring and termination, restrictive covenant strategy, policy development, and litigation avoidance. She is experienced in conducting internal investigations and providing related advice.
Her advisory role extends to addressing employment and labor law issues in various transactional contexts, such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and restructurings. She manages employment due diligence, drafts and negotiates key terms, and advises on all employment and labor law aspects of these engagements. Rebecca’s transactional practice is augmented by her experience in traditional labor law, both as a thought leader and as a practitioner who has defended employers facing unfair labor practice charges, managed union avoidance initiatives, and developed and executed collective bargaining strategies.
Informing her practice is her broad litigation background, including multiple jury trials. She has successfully handled significant disputes involving wage-and-hour, discrimination, retaliation, and harassment claims in state and federal courts and before employment-focused administrative agencies. She has also guided clients through restrictive covenant disputes, including successfully securing injunctions, on both the plaintiff and defense side.
Rebecca was named by Best Lawyers in America as “One to Watch” in its 2021, 2022, and 2023 editions, and by Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” from 2019 to 2023.
She earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as Research Editor for the Journal of Law and Social Change and was an Arthur Littleton H. Clayton Louderback Legal Writing Fellow. During law school, she interned for the Honorable Judith G. Dein of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Rebecca holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from Brandeis University.
Awards and Recognition, Speaking Engagements, Latest Thinking, Firm News & Announcements
Awards and Recognition
- Rebecca Sivitz Recognized as a Rising Star Award Brief — Super Lawyers 2019-2022
- Rebecca Sivitz Recognized as Best Lawyers: One to Watch Honoree Award Brief — Best Lawyers 2021-2023
Speaking Engagements
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Ethics Issues in Witness Preparation and Testimony
Speaker(s):
Rebecca Sivitz
February 25, 2024 — Anaheim, CA — Employment Practice Group partner Rebecca Sivitz served on a panel titled, “Ethics Issues in Witness Preparation and Testimony,” at the ABA’s Midwinter Meeting -- Committee on Development of the Law Under the National Labor Relations Act.
Latest Thinking
- Sustainability & ESG Quarterly Roundup Alert — By Rebecca Grapsas, John P. Barry, Lyuba Goltser, Olivia J. Greer, Rebecca Sivitz, Annemargaret Connolly, Matthew D. Morton, Robert Stern, James Bromley, Christopher Marks, Marc Schubert, Amy Waddington and Romain Ferla — PDF — April 2024
- Minnesota’s Non-Compete Ban Becomes Effective July 1, 2023 Alert — By John P. Barry, Rebecca Sivitz and Brett Bonfanti — PDF — June 28, 2023
- Will New York Enact Nation’s Most Sweeping NonCompete Ban? Alert — Employer Update — By John P. Barry, Rebecca Sivitz and Brett Bonfanti — PDF — June 23, 2023
- UPDATE: NLRB GC Issues Guidance on Non-Disparagement and Confidentiality Provisions Alert — Employer Update — By Rebecca Sivitz, John P. Barry and Heylee Bernstein — PDF — March 2023
- NLRB Takes Aim at Non-Disparagement and Confidentiality Provisions For Union and Non-Union Employees Alert — Employer Update — By Rebecca Sivitz, John P. Barry and Heylee Bernstein — PDF — March 2023
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Advised Arcosa in its Acquisition of Ameron Pole Products Deal Brief — April 10, 2024
- Eighteen Weil Attorneys Shortlisted for Euromoney's 2024 Women in Business Law Americas Awards Firm Announcement — April 08, 2024