Katharine R. McDonagh joined Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 2018 as an associate in the Emeryville office. Her work includes representing public- and private- sector unions, and the employees they represent, in arbitrations, state and federal courts, and administrative hearings, including before the California Public Employment Relations Board (“PERB”). Ms. McDonagh also regularly advises clients on a host of labor and employment and apprenticeship matters.

Ms. McDonagh also co-authored the fourth edition of the Pocket Guide to the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act, published by California Public Employee Relations, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley. This Pocket Guide provides an overview of the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 as well as both legislative and judicial updates and interpretations.

Ms. McDonagh earned her juris doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2018 after receiving a B.A. in Global Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2011. While at Hastings, Ms. McDonagh served as the Executive Production Editor of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, advised indigent workers under the supervision of attorneys through the Workers’ Rights Clinic, and clerked for WRR from 2017 until 2018.

Ms. McDonagh is licensed to practice law in California.