AUBURN — Rebecca Webber of the law firm Linnell Choate & Webber has been chosen as co-chair of the Maine State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section.

She has already chaired the annual Employment Law Update for all employment attorneys in Maine and will now help oversee the section’s activities and mission for 2012.

Since 1994, Webber has practiced law at Linnell, Choate & Webber LLP. Prior to that, she was in the litigation department of Palmer & Dodge in Boston, Mass. She focuses her practice on employment law and commercial litigation.