Cars.com chief legal officer Jim Rogers has a knack for helping companies through major transition periods.

The Columbia Law School grad spent nearly three decades as a partner at Latham & Watkins before retiring from private practice and joining the in-house world. He went on to serve as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of travel website Orbitz Worldwide Inc. and saw the company through a $1.33 billion merger with Expedia Inc. in late 2015.