While in law school, Anita was an Articles Co-Chair on the Harvard Law Review and a contributing writer for OnLabor.org. She was also active in the Harvard Graduate Student Union and the Harvard Labor and Employment Action Project.

Prior to joining Altshuler Berzon, Lachlan was a legal fellow at the Southern Center for Human Rights, where he litigated constitutional issues related to the criminalization of poverty — such as bail and restitution — as well as challenges to extreme or unconstitutional sentences. While in law school, Lachlan was a Toll Public Interest Fellow and an Articles Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. 

James represents labor unions, workers, and nonprofit organizations in a wide range of matters, including arbitrations, administrative proceedings, and litigation throughout all levels of the state and federal courts.

Stephen is a Founding Partner of Altshuler Berzon LLP and currently serves as Special Counsel to the firm. His practice has consisted primarily of major litigation in the areas of labor and employment, environment and public health, campaign and election, and constitutional law. He has practiced both at the trial and appellate levels and has argued groundbreaking cases benefiting workers, their unions, and the environment before the United States Supreme Court, the California and Hawaii Supreme Courts, and federal circuit and district courts throughout the country. He has testified before U.S. Senate and House Committees and California Senate and Assembly Committees, and has helped develop key legislation involving civil rights, education, unemployment insurance, environmental protection, food safety, at-risk children, union organizing, and injunctions in labor disputes.

Stephen has been a member of the Ninth Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Rules and Internal Operating Procedures, the national Board of Directors of the American Constitutional Society, and the Board of Directors of the national AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Northern District of California Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is a member of the Advisory Group of the Clean Slate Project of the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program.

In 2024, Stephen was awarded the Ninth Circuit’s John P. Frank award, an annual honor recognizing an attorney who has “demonstrated outstanding character and integrity; dedication to the rule of law; proficiency as a trial and appellate lawyer; success in promoting collegiality among members of the bench and bar; and a lifetime of service to the federal courts of the Ninth Circuit.” Stephen was recognized for a career in which he has excelled as an attorney, mentored countless students and lawyers, and exemplified the qualities of character, integrity, collegiality, and service.  The Ninth Circuit’s announcement of Stephen’s award may be found here.

Before starting Altshuler Berzon, Stephen was a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow at the Contra Costa Legal Services Foundation in Richmond, CA and at the National Housing and Economic Development Law Project of the University of California, Berkeley Law School. He then practiced with the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County in Oakland and he served as the Legal Director of the Children’s Defense Fund, a public interest organization in Washington, D.C. before returning to California in 1977. He was also Chair of the City of Berkeley Police Review Commission and a member of the Board of Directors of the Urban Strategies Council.

Stephen received the Voting Rights Award from the ACLU of Southern California in 2002 for his work on voting rights litigation. In 2009, he was named a California Lawyer of the Year by California Lawyer Magazine in the area of Civil Rights, and in 2012, he received the Social Justice Service Award from Santa Clara Law School. He also received a Peggy Browning Award in 2020. He is currently listed in The Best Lawyers in America for labor and employment law, and in San Francisco Magazine’s Northern California Super Lawyers in the appellate practice area.

Stephen delivered the 2014-2015 Preiskel-Silverman Lecture at Yale Law School, entitled “Fixing Wealth Inequality: How Lawyers Can Be Part of the Solution.” In 2023 and 2024 he taught a seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law entitled Impact Litigation: Strategic Considerations.

While in law school, Jacqlyn received certificates of specialization in critical race studies and public interest law. She also served as co-chair of the Tenants’ Rights Clinic, participated in UCLA’s Law, Organizing, and Low-Wage Workers practicum with UNITE HERE Local 11, and worked with Los Angeles County’s Medical Legal Community Partnership.

Hal’s practice consists primarily of efforts to restore ecosystems, protect endangered species, encourage water conservation, and promote other environmental reforms in federal and state water policy.  He has briefed and argued numerous cases at the trial and appellate level.  Hal represents a variety of nonprofit conservation organizations as well as local public agencies.

Hal is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the NRDC Action Fund. For over twenty years, he served as a Senior Attorney in the San Francisco Office of the Natural Resources Defense Council and as Co-Director of NRDC’s Western Water Project. Previously he was a legislative assistant in the United States Senate.

Hal received a CLAY Award as one of California’s “Lawyers of the Year” in 1999 for his work pursuing restoration of the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam. He has also received the Bay Institute’s Carla Bard Bay Education award in 2008 and the Central Valley Joint Venture Conservation Award in 2015. Hal was a Root-Tilden Scholar and a Hayes Civil Liberties Fellow at New York University Law School.

Eve’s practice consists primarily of representing workers and consumers in class action lawsuits, with a particular emphasis on civil rights, employment discrimination, wage and hour, and privacy cases. She also represents individual professors in tenure matters.

Eve is currently on the Senior Editorial Board of The Fair Labor Standards Act and is a chapter author and contributor to Wage and Hour Laws, a State-by-State Survey. She also lectures regularly on wage and hour, employment discrimination, and class action law. Eve is proud to serve on the Board of Equal Rights Advocates, where she chairs its Litigation Committee and serves on the Luncheon Committee. Eve previously worked as a staff attorney at the Prison Law Office representing inmates challenging unconstitutional conditions of confinement and was a partner at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, where she represented plaintiffs in class action employment and consumer lawsuits. She was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Eve was honored as a 2018 “California Lawyer of the Year” for her work on consumer privacy as co-lead counsel in the In re Anthem Data Breach litigation. Eve has been selected to Northern California Super Lawyers every year since 2010, has been named one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Northern California, and is a “Leading Lawyer” listed in The Legal 500 United States.

In her spare time, Eve enjoys watching her four sons play baseball, football, basketball, and soccer, and curling up with a good book.

Connie’s practice consists primarily of representing workers, unions, and public interest organizations in complex impact and appellate litigation, including in matters of employment, civil rights, and constitutional law. She has briefed multiple cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the California Supreme Court, and the California Courts of Appeal on a wide range of issues, and has argued in the Ninth Circuit and in the federal and state trial courts. Connie’s practice also includes legislative drafting and client advice.

In 2017, Connie was named a “California Lawyer of the Year” in the Worker Health and Safety category for her work on Kilby v. CVS in the California Supreme Court establishing workers’ right to “suitable seating” under California’s wage orders. Connie previously served as a councilmember on the California Fair Employment and Housing Council, and as a deputy city attorney in the Affirmative Litigation Division of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office.

In addition to California, Connie is admitted to practice in New York.

B.J. is the Managing Partner of Altshuler Berzon LLP. Her practice consists primarily of complex civil litigation and public policy and impact litigation on behalf of labor unions, workers, public entities, and environmental organizations, among others. She has briefed and argued numerous cases in state and federal courts, both at the trial and appellate levels. In addition to litigation, she represents unions and nonprofits engaged in social justice campaigns, represents unions in contract negotiations and arbitrations, and assists clients working throughout the country on issues concerning legislation, ballot measures and election law.

B.J. is currently the Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Labor and Employment Committee, a Lawyer Representative for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of Public Advocates. B.J. previously served as Co-Chair of the Lawyer Representatives Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and on the Board of Directors of the Union Lawyers Alliance, the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Section of the California State Bar, the Board of the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society, and the Board of Directors of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel. She also served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Pacific Environment for many years.

B.J. was named a “California Lawyer of the Year” by California Lawyer Magazine in 2013 for her work in an Ohio voting rights case.

Prior to law school, B.J. worked in the Russian Far East for five years, where she was the founder and director of the Russian Far East branch of ISAR, an organization working on environmental and human rights issues. B.J. is a fluent Russian speaker and enjoys playing music with her children, kayaking, and reading mystery novels.

Lisa joined Altshuler Berzon LLP in December 2024. Prior to joining the firm, Lisa served as lead counsel in labor, employment, civil rights, and constitutional law class and representative actions and writ proceedings, as well as in NLRB trials, administrative hearings, and arbitration hearings; and has been lead counsel in cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth and D.C. Circuits and California Courts of Appeal.  Lisa also has extensive experience supporting successful organizing drives and contract campaigns.

Lisa graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and clerked for the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has spoken at numerous labor law conferences and authored several articles regarding a wide range of labor and employment law topics. Lisa has served as chapter editor for the treatise How to Take a Case Before the NLRB. Prior to joining Altshuler Berzon LLP, Lisa was a partner at a Los Angeles-based union-side labor law firm and before that, was in-house general counsel for a large health care union.

Lisa is active in Southern California and national legal organizations. She is a member of the ABA Committee on International Labor and Employment Law, active in the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance, and an ex-officio lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit for the Central District of California.

While in law school, Elle was the Executive Development Editor of the Yale Law Journal. She was also an organizer for the Yale Graduate Workers Union and published a note in the Yale Law Journal on developments affecting workers’ standing to bring state wage and hour claims in federal court. 

Jim’s practice consists primarily of representing employees in class and collective actions involving workplace discrimination and wage/hour violations, and representing voters in voting rights actions. He has also handled constitutional cases involving issues under both the U.S. and California constitutions.

He is currently Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid at Work. He is a fellow of the American College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and of the American Bar Foundation. He is the author, or co-author, of numerous articles and book chapters on various topics of discrimination and wage/hour law and the use and trial of class and collective actions. From 1992 through 2006, he was a partner at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. In 2005, he served as President of the Bar Association of San Francisco. From 2000 through 2001, he served as Co-Chair of the delegation of lawyer representatives from the Northern District of California to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. He served as the Co-Chair of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area from 1997 to 1998 and 2009 to 2010, and also as a member of the Board of Directors. He also served on the Board of Directors of the National Employment Lawyers Association from 2011-13. From 2010 to 2013, he served on the Board of Visitors of the University of Chicago Law School. He was a member of the Board of the U.C. College of Law Worklife Center from 2011 to 2019. In 2008, he was an adjunct professor of law at the U.C. College of Law at SF, where he taught Employment Discrimination law. He was Executive Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.

Since 2005, Jim has been listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” for Litigation-Labor and Employment law, and since 2018 for Class Actions, as well. He was named The Best Lawyers 2014 Litigation-Labor and Employment “Lawyer of the Year” in San Francisco. He has been listed as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” since 2004, and was listed as one of the top 100 Super Lawyers in Northern California from 2005-13. In 2009, he was named a “California Lawyer of the Year” in the field of Civil Rights by California Lawyer Magazine. In 2023, Benchmark Litigation selected Jim as one of the top 50 Labor & Employment Lawyers in the United States and in 2025 named him as a Litigation Star. The Daily Journal has selected Jim as one of the Top 75 Labor & Employment Lawyers in California from 2018 through 2023. The Daily Journal has also selected Jim as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. Legal 500 lists Jim as a member of its Labor and Employment Lawyers Hall of Fame.

In his spare time, Jim enjoys hiking, tennis, kayaking, travel, and cooking.

Eileen’s practice consists primarily of representing unions in litigation, arbitration, administrative proceedings, and advice matters, and representing workers in class action and representative litigation in the state and federal courts.

Eileen has served on many boards and committees, including the Board of Directors of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee (now known as the Union Lawyers Alliance), the Executive Committee of the Labor & Employment Section of the State Bar of California, and the Amicus Curiae Committee of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA).  She has also served as a Ninth Circuit Appellate Lawyer Representative.  She is a frequent panelist on labor and employment topics.

Eileen is listed in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Civil Rights and Plaintiffs Employment Lawyers for 2025.  She also has been listed as a “Northern California Rising Star” in San Francisco Magazine’s “Super Lawyers” issue.

Before becoming a lawyer, Eileen was the Communications Director for the United Mine Workers of America, and worked on Capitol Hill and on Democratic political campaigns.  In her spare time, Eileen enjoys hiking, reading, and foreign travel.

Corinne’s practice includes complex civil and impact litigation on behalf of labor unions, workers, public entities, and environmental organizations. She practices at both the trial and appellate levels. She also provides legal advice to unions and nonprofits on matters concerning legislation, ballot measures, and publicity campaigns.

Scott is an experienced litigator and advisor who often assists clients and other lawyers with matters that involve significant legal issues of first impression.  He handles cases in appellate and trial courts around the country and also represents clients in arbitrations and administrative proceedings.  He also regularly provides legal advice about proposed legislation.  His clients have included labor organizations, public interest groups, public entities, and individuals, and his major areas of focus include federal and state constitutional law, labor law, employment law, and the defense of suits arising from First Amendment activity.

Scott is the former Chair of the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco and served as an Appellate Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.  He has been listed in the most recent editions of Best Lawyers in America for civil rights law, Super Lawyers magazine for employment and labor, and the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers guide for class actions and employee rights.

In addition to the California state bar, Scott is admitted to the state bar of New York.

Jonah’s practice consists primarily of representing unions in arbitration, administrative proceedings, advice matters, contract negotiations, and in litigation at the trial and appellate levels. He was previously a partner at a Southern California union-side law firm.

Jonah is currently a Central District of California Lawyer Representative for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. He has presented on a number of legal topics at conferences conducted by the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance, the California Teachers Association, the IUPAT Professionals Forum & Finishing Industries Forum, and the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Labor and Employment Law Section. He was selected to be a 2025–2026 Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School, where he presented a talk on using labor law to fight economic inequality. Jonah has published opinion pieces about the labor movement in The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, The Hill, Truthout, and The Progressive.

During law school, Jonah was a Senior Articles Editor on the Berkeley Journal for Employment and Labor Law and worked for several Bay Area labor law firms, including Altshuler Berzon LLP. He was also president of the law school chapter of the American Constitution Society.

Jonah began his career in the labor movement as a union organizer with a healthcare local of the Service Employees International Union, where he organized public and private sector workers in California, Texas, Nevada, and Arizona. In Texas, he became the organizing director of a public sector local and led a multifaceted, multi-year campaign to organize 13,000 City of Houston employees. Coordinating with community groups, clergy, and elected officials, the organizing effort resulted in a historic first contract that included improved wages and benefits, and a strengthened voice on the job for city employees. The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) recognized the work that Jonah and his colleagues accomplished with the Philip Vera Cruz Award, given to outstanding AAPI union organizers whose work honors the memory of Filipino labor leader and farmworker Philip Vera Cruz.

Harold represents labor unions, workers, and nonprofit organizations in a wide range of matters, including arbitrations, administrative proceedings, and litigation at all levels of the California and federal judiciary. He also provides advice in areas such as collective bargaining, legislative drafting, and local government law.

Prior to joining Altshuler Berzon LLP, Harold was an associate at Rothner, Segall & Greenstone, a labor law firm in Pasadena, California.

While a law student, Harold was a Peggy Browning Fellow at New York State United Teachers and a contributor to OnLabor.org.  He also served as co-president of the Harvard Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Before attending law school, Harold worked as a teacher at two public elementary schools in New York City.

Danielle’s practice consists primarily of complex litigation. She has represented international, state, and local labor unions, environmental groups and other advocacy organizations, and workers, students, and consumers in class actions, in cases involving diverse areas of law including labor law, employment law, voting rights, and other constitutional issues. She has briefed and argued numerous cases at the trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts.

Danielle is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Peggy Browning Fund. Danielle has also served on the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Prior to joining the firm, Danielle was a trial attorney in the Voting Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.

In 2026, Danielle was given a “California Lawyer of the Year” (CLAY) award for her work, along with a team of Altshuler Berzon and other attorneys, representing federal employees, unions, and non-profit organizations challenging the restructuring and downsizing of federal agencies.  Danielle was also awarded the 2025 American Association for Justice Employment Excellence Award for this work protecting the rights of federal employees. In 2013, Danielle received two CLAY awards in the categories of Voting Rights and Educational Law.  Danielle has been named in the Northern California Super Lawyers listings since 2012 and has been selected as a Benchmark Plaintiff Top 150 Women in Litigation, Benchmark Plaintiff Local Litigation Star, and Lawdragon 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers.

In addition to her law practice, Danielle enjoys backpacking and spending time in the mountains with her family. She thru-hiked the John Muir Trail in 2014.

During law school, Jessica was a clinical student in Harvard’s Housing Law Clinic, representing individuals facing eviction, and in Harvard’s Supreme Court Clinic, working on a False Claims Act case. Jessica also served as a Notes Editor on the Harvard Law Review and as a student attorney with the Prison Legal Assistance Project.

Stacey has litigated numerous cases in state and federal court, at both the trial and appellate levels. She has regularly argued major motions and appeals. Her litigation practice involves representation of labor unions, environmental groups, individual workers and public benefits recipients, advocacy organizations, and public entities. The cases have involved a wide variety of issues under federal and state law, including federal labor law, antitrust prohibitions and exemptions, voting rights statutes, Medicaid, the Americans with Disabilities Act, RICO, state choice-of-law issues, state employment law, and protections afforded by the federal and state constitutions. Stacey’s practice also includes legislative drafting and client advice.

Stacey serves on the Board of Directors of the national racial justice organization Color of Change. Stacey has previously served as an Appellate Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, as a United States District Court Northern District of California Lawyer Representative, on the Board of Directors of Public Interest Clearinghouse (now OneJustice), a volunteer at Legal Aid at Work’s Worker’s Rights Clinic, and a volunteer in San Francisco public schools and youth soccer programs. She also currently serves on the board of directors of Or Shalom Jewish Community.

Stacey was named a “California Lawyer of the Year” by California Lawyer Magazine in 2011 for her work in a case challenging budget cuts to the California program providing in-home care to Medicaid recipients. She has regularly been selected to the Northern California Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America for exceptional work in appellate practice, Lawdragon Leading Civil Rights and Plaintiff Employment Lawyers, and Benchmark Plaintiff California Local Litigation Stars, Benchmark Top Women Attorneys in Northern California, and Benchmark Plaintiff Top Women in Litigation.

In addition to being a member of the California state bar, Stacey is admitted to the state bar of Washington.

Stacey enjoys watching sports (especially the San Francisco Giants), paddle boarding and other water activities, biking, good TV, and spending time with friends and family.

Prior to joining Altshuler, Marisa served as a policy advisor on gender and economic policy at the Biden-Harris White House. While in law school, Marisa participated in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic.

Amanda’s practice focuses primarily on representing workers, labor unions, and other public interest organizations in civil litigation at the trial and appellate levels, including in matters of employment, civil rights, and constitutional law.

While in law school, Amanda was a student director of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, representing individuals and organizations in litigation seeking greater government transparency.  Prior to law school, Amanda worked in the arts and as a communications fellow for a progressive legal nonprofit.

Matt’s practice involves representing unions, workers, teachers, students, civic engagement organizations, and public benefits recipients at all levels of the state and federal courts. He has briefed cases in the United States Supreme Court and California Supreme Court and has argued before the Ninth Circuit, the Alaska Supreme Court, multiple federal district courts, and state trial and appellate courts. He also litigates local union grievance arbitrations.

Matt’s areas of litigation have included enforcing state and federal wage and hour protections, federal labor law, the Voting Rights Act, the California FAIR MAPS Act, the Medicaid Act, Title IX, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the California Education Code. Matt’s practice also includes legislative drafting and client advice.

Matt is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-NC) and the ACLU-NC Legal Committee.  He was a Coro Fellow and was the student Regent of the University of California.

Matt was a contributor to the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law’s The Fair Labor Standards Act, 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2017 Cumulative Supplements. He has also written on the relationship between equality, sexual orientation, religious liberty, and the First Amendment.

Matt was listed in the 2020-2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers guide and was named a “Rising Star” in the 2013-2014 and 2017-2020 Northern California Super Lawyers listings in San Francisco Magazine.

In his spare time, Matt enjoys playing soccer.

Zoe represents local and international labor unions in federal and state court litigation, administrative proceedings, arbitrations, collective bargaining, and advice matters.  From 2019-2024, Zoe served as an advisor to the Executive Committee of the Labor & Employment Section of the California Lawyers Association. She has been named one of Lawdragon’s 500 leading plaintiff employee and civil rights lawyers in the country in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.  

Zoe previously worked at Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in labor law, ERISA, and bankruptcy.

Before becoming a lawyer, Zoe was a public school teacher in the Bronx, NY. In her spare time, Zoe enjoys cooking, yoga, and spending time with her two children.

While in law school, Sandy served as a Public Interest Fellow, participated in the Community Law Clinic, and was an organizer for the Stanford Graduate Students Union.

Jonathan’s practice consists primarily of representing workers, labor unions, public interest organizations, and public entities in trial court and appellate litigation in both federal and state court. He also represents labor unions in collective bargaining, labor arbitration, administrative proceedings, and other matters.

In law school, Jonathan served as a student co-director of the Tenants’ Rights Workshop, participated in Berkeley Law’s Environmental Law Clinic, and was a Supervising Editor for the California Law Review and an Articles Editor for Ecology Law Quarterly.

Michael’s practice consists primarily of appellate litigation, class actions, and public policy/impact litigation. He has argued in the U.S. Supreme Court, the California, Alaska, Indiana, and Nevada Supreme Courts, and state and federal appellate courts throughout the country.

Michael is currently a fellow and a member of the Northern Ninth Circuit Credentials Committee of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the AFL-CIO’s Lawyers’ Coordinating Committee. He regularly lectures on developments in California and federal employment law and other topics, including at Stanford Law School and Berkeley Law, and has testified before committees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on labor and employment issues.

Michael has won an unprecedented seven “California Lawyer of the Year” (CLAY) awards from California Lawyer Magazine/Daily Journal, winning four times in the Employment Law category (in 2019 for his work in the California Supreme Court on the Dynamex independent-contractor misclassification case; in 2016 for his trial and appellate work in the Walmart warehouse workers joint-employer class action; in 2013 for his California Supreme Court work on the Brinker meal-period and rest-break case; and in 2002 for his trial work on the Does I-XXIII Saipan sweatshop litigation), once in the Worker Health and Safety category (in 2017 for his work on Kilby v. CVS in the California Supreme Court establishing the obligation of California employers to provide “suitable seating” to workers at fixed workstations), once for False Claims Act Litigation (in 2010 for his work that resulted in a $78 million settlement of government fraud claims against the for-profit University of Phoenix), and once for Criminal Law (also in 2010, for more than a quarter century of work in the state and federal trial and appellate courts on behalf of a death penalty inmate that resulted in his client’s unconditional release from prison in 2010 – a case that also resulted in Michael receiving the “Johnnie Cochran” award from the Criminal Courts Bar Association).

Michael has been recognized by the California Daily Journal every year since 2012 as either one of the “Top 100 Lawyers in California,” one of California’s “Top Labor and Employment Lawyers,” or both, was a recipient of a “Trial Lawyer of the Year” Award from the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in 2003 for his work on the Saipan sweatshop litigation, and was American Lawyer Magazine’s “Litigator of the Week” in May 2013 for his work on behalf of five professional sports unions in the Hart v. Electronic Arts right-of-publicity case in the Third Circuit. Michael was also honored with the San Francisco Anti-Defamation League’s “Distinguished Jurisprudence” award in December 2017.

In his spare time, Michael enjoys refereeing youth soccer, playing classical piano, and listening to the Grateful Dead.

Talia represents workers and labor unions in a variety of matters, including arbitrations, administrative proceedings, and litigation. While in law school, Talia was a clinical student in Yale’s Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, where she represented workers, labor unions, and immigrants in removal proceedings. 

Robin represents labor unions, workers, and nonprofit organizations in a wide range of matters, including in litigation at all levels of the federal and California state courts, as well as in arbitrations. She also provides advice in areas such as labor organizing, collective bargaining, and legislative drafting.
Prior to her clerkship, Robin was a litigation fellow at the Policing Project at New York University Law School, where she worked on developing a litigation campaign to ensure democratic authorization for police use of technology and co-wrote an article on policing and Covid-19 for the University of Chicago Law Review Online. While in law school, Robin served as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review and participated in the International Human Rights Clinic and the Prison Legal Assistance Project.

Emanuel represents workers, consumers, labor unions, public interest and advocacy organizations, and public entities in a variety of matters, including labor disputes, arbitrations, and litigation at all levels of both state and federal court. His practice also includes advising clients and drafting legislation.

While in law school, Emanuel was a co-recipient of both the Potter Stewart Prize for best overall oral and written advocacy and the Thurman Arnold Prize for best oralist of the Morris Tyler Moot Court competition. He also served on the Moot Court Board, taught debate classes to incarcerated women at the York Correctional Institution in Connecticut, and taught moot court to middle schoolers as part of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.

Alice joined Altshuler Berzon LLP in January 2025. Prior to joining the firm, Alice was an Associate Deputy Solicitor General at the California Solicitor General’s Office, where she litigated appeals on a wide range of issues, including labor law, consumer protection, and constitutional law, in the U.S. Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, and other courts. Before that, Alice was an associate at another law firm, where she worked on complex civil litigation. While in law school, Alice served as the Notes Chair of the Harvard Law Review.