Sophia Rivera is an experienced Human Resources professional with a strong background in HR management, employee relations, recruiting, benefits, compliance, and professional development within legal and corporate environments.

Sophia has spent much of her career supporting midsize law firms while partnering with leadership and employees throughout the full employee lifecycle.  She is known for her service-focused approach as well as her passion for building strong workplace relationships, improving HR processes, and fostering a positive and collaborative culture.  She holds the SHRM-CP credential, and has extensive experience supporting midsize law firms, where she has served as a trusted HR resource to employees, attorneys, firm leadership, and management.

Sophia's background encompasses the full employee lifecycle, including recruiting and onboarding, employee relations and investigations, performance management, compensation analysis, benefits administration, leave and ADA accommodations, workers' compensation, COBRA and ACA administration, policy development, and separation processes.

Sophia also brings significant experience in attorney recruiting and professional development.  She has coordinated law school recruiting, on-campus interview programs, lateral and entry-level candidate processes, summer associate programs, mentoring, training, and recruiting events.  Her work has included developing relationships with law schools, students, recruiting agencies, attorneys, and firm leadership while managing fast-paced and highly confidential recruiting processes.

Earlier in her career, Sophia gained corporate HR and talent management experience with Freeport-McMoRan, supporting recruiting initiatives and a large-scale summer internship program involving students across Arizona mining operations.  She also supported retirement administration and previously provided executive-level administrative support related to the company's Board of Directors.

Sophia is experienced with HR and business technologies including UKG/Kronos, Paychex, Benetrac, LawCruit, iManage, Clio, Microsoft Office, and emerging AI tools.  She approaches human resources as both a strategic business function and a service profession, with a commitment to creating efficient processes, fostering positive workplace relationships, and ensuring employees and leadership have a knowledgeable and trusted HR resource.

Experience

As a seasoned Human Resources professional with progressive experience spanning HR management, employee relations, recruiting, benefits administration, compliance, compensation, performance management, and professional development — Sophia's career includes extensive experience within midsize law firms, where she has progressed into positions of increasing responsibility and served as a trusted HR partner to employees, attorneys, and executive leadership.

Throughout her career, Sophia has led HR technology implementations, enhanced recruiting and onboarding processes, supported attorney and summer associate programs, administered employee benefits and compliance programs, and helped strengthen workplace culture through a responsive, service-focused approach.