Channez Rogers, Crystal Boateng Join Royal LLP

NORTHAMPTON — Royal LLP, a management-side-only labor and employment-law firm, announced some recent additions to the staff. Channez Rogers, Esq. has joined the firm as an associate attorney, and Crystal Boateng has joined the firm as a law clerk.

Prior to joining Royal LLP, Rogers worked in the General Counsel’s Office at Western New England University, handling employment matters. In her role at Royal, she represents companies in myriad employment-law cases in state and federal court and before administrative agencies. She also counsels companies on the multitude of state and federal employment laws impacting them, including employment discrimination and harassment, wage and hour, disability and leave, workplace safety, OSHA, affirmative action, and contract negotiations. Her other preventive work includes drafting employee manuals; preparing non-disclosure, non-solicitation, and non-compete agreements; and conducting management training. Rogers is a summa cum laude graduate of Western New England University and a cum laude graduate of Western New England University School of Law.

Boateng is a cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a bachelor’s degree in French and political science. She is in her final year of studies in a four-year program for obtaining her juris doctor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and her MBA at the University of Connecticut School of Business.