Rita serves as the firm's deputy general counsel. Her labor and employment practice focuses on the litigation of employment-related claims before state and federal courts and administrative agencies, representation of management in labor issues, and advice to management, human resources professionals and in-house counsel on all aspects of employer-employee relations. Rita also serves as president of ProWorkplace, a division of the firm that provides practical, interactive and customized workplace training to management, supervisory and non-supervisory employees.

Rita is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia. After earning her law degree, Rita served as a law clerk for the Honorable Robert R. Merhige, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.