Legal

I am an employment and labor lawyer who has dedicated her career to representing unions and employees in discrimination, retaliation, whistleblowing and wage theft cases. I have practiced in federal and state court, before federal and state labor boards, in arbitrations, and in negotiations and bargaining with employers, litigating both single plaintiff and class and mass actions. I have taken more than a dozen cases to trial as first-chair counsel and lead cases resulting in six, seven, and eight figure recoveries.

A few matters that I am particularly proud to have worked on include an eight figure settlement against a major California employer for withholding employee wages in retaliation for union organizing, the reinstatement of an African American employee persecuted on racial grounds during the COVID-19 pandemic by his public entity employer, the drafting of state legislation aimed at protecting employees’ wages and benefits during strike actions, and a lawsuit challenging Colorado’s usage of incarcerated workers as slave labor in its private prison system.

I currently serve as Of Counsel for a worker-side plaintiffs’ firm, Franklin Law PC.

I received my law degree from the UC Berkeley School of Law, where I was awarded the American Jurisprudence Prize in Constitutional Law and nominated for the Francine Diaz Award for Public Service.

If you have any questions about employment matters, please feel free to contact me to discuss.