Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that partners Natalie Alameddine and Caroline Powell Donelan have been named 2025 Leaders of Influence: Labor & Employment Attorneys by the Los Angeles Business Journal ("LABJ").
This recognition honors top attorneys in the region who are at the forefront of labor and employment law. According to the LABJ, these leaders "have their finger on the ever-changing pulse of labor legislation, what changes have come to the labor law landscape in recent times, the new rules of hiring and firing, and the various trends that they have been tirelessly monitoring and managing for their clients."
Natalie and Caroline are featured in the LABJ’s special supplement, which highlights their distinguished careers and recent achievements in labor and employment law.
To view the 2025 Leaders of Influence: Labor & Employment Attorneys supplement, please click here.
Natalie's and Caroline's honoree profiles, as published in the LABJ, are copied in full below.
Natalie Alameddine
Partner, Labor & Employment
Blank Rome LLP
Natalie Alameddine is a partner in Blank Rome’s Labor & Employment practice group. She defends employers in single-plaintiff and class action employment matters, and represents employers on labor and employment matters such as federal and California wage and hour issues, class actions and PAGA representative actions, discrimination and harassment, and more.
In 2024, Alameddine led a Blank Rome team in securing a major appellate victory for Motive Energy Telecommunications, Inc. in a labor and employment-related class action. Alameddine also recently served as employment counsel for numerous matters for BYD Coach & Bus LLC, BYD Motors, Inc., and BYD America LLC, American subsidiaries of BYD Company Ltd, which is the largest domestic auto-manufacturer and electric-bus manufacturer in China.
Caroline Donelan
Partner, Labor & Employment
Blank Rome LLP
A partner of labor and employment at Blank Rome LLP, Caroline Donelan is a trusted adviser and strategic partner to both domestic and foreign clients, providing advice and defense counsel in all areas of employment law compliance and litigation. Her work encompasses wage and hour class and representative (“PAGA”) actions, wrongful termination/retaliation, discrimination, harassment, trade secret disputes, data protection, and alleged fiduciary breaches.
Donelan’s proactive risk management practice includes drafting key workplace policies and agreements, providing practical implementation guidance, conducting workplace trainings, managing internal audits and investigations, and providing day-to-day counseling on the wide variety of employment issues her clients face.
