KATHIANA AURELIEN
Counsel
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Kathiana Aurelien is counsel in Willkie’s Labor and Employment Group in Los Angeles. She focuses her practice on representing industry-leading clients on a wide range of labor and employment matters. She regularly advises on corporate transactions and has extensive experience working on workplace investigations, evaluating worker classification issues, and implementing reductions-in force.
Aurelien regularly advises clients on sensitive executive separation matters, compliance issues, and developing, implementing and enforcing personnel policies. She has experience defending state and federal discrimination and retaliation claims; drafting and negotiating employment, severance, and general release agreements; complying with wage payment and sick leave obligations; and drafting effective personnel policies.
