Tamara S. Freeze is highly experienced in labor and employment matters as well as general civil litigation, including contract disputes, intellectual property, and sports and entertainment law. Before opening her own practice, she worked for several big law firms in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Orange County. Ms. Freeze is comfortable litigating cases and representing clients throughout California.
Ms. Freeze has substantial experience representing clients in discrimination and harassment disputes, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, and for unpaid compensation and benefits. Ms. Freeze frequently advises employees on the hiring and termination, the enforcement of company policies and practices, labor-management relations, wage and hour compliance, alternative dispute resolution, international employment law issues, trade secrets, severance negotiations and class action strategy. She has experience vigorously defending employee rights, educating drafting employment and settlement agreements, independently supervising cases, calculating settlement ranges and managing litigation.
As part of her practice, Ms. Freeze represents employees in state and federal courts throughout California, as well as in administrative proceedings, such as EEOC or DFEH. She is familiar with human resources procedures, business programs for employee recruitment, processing, orientation, performance evaluation systems, and employee counseling.
Tamara Freeze's Specialties:
Employment and Labor law: discrimination and harassment, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, severance packages, unpaid compensation and benefits, wrongful termination, layoff practices, wage and hour compliance, alternative dispute resolution, international employment law issues, and class action strategy.
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Entertainment & Sports Law
- International Law
- Human Rights, Imports & Exports
- Labor and Employment
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Free Consultation
Free phone consultation - Contingent Fees
- California, 2005
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- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
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- 9th Circuit
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- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
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- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
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- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
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- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Portuguese: Written
- Russian: Spoken, Written
- Founding Shareholder
- Workplace Justice Advocates, PLC
- Current
- Attorney
- Law Offices of Tamara S. Freeze
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- Associate Attorney
- Bryan Cave LLP
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- Associate Attorney
- Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
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- Associate Attorney
- Littler Mendelson P.C.
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- University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- J.D. (2005)
- Honors: Prosser Prize in Local Government Law
- Activities: McBaine Moot Court; Articles Editor, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law
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- University of California - Los Angeles
- B.A. (2000) | Political Science
- Honors: Magna Cum Laude; Kurnitz Creative Writing Award
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- Rising Star
- California Super Lawyers Magazine
- 2012-2015
- State Bar of California
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- California Employment Lawyers' Association (CELA)
- Member
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- Activities: Mentorship Committee Co-Chair
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- Orange County Bar Association
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- Activities: Labor & Employment Executive Committee
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- Los Angeles County Bar Association
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- American Bar Association
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- Evaluating Eligibility for FMLA Leave: Federal Case Law Underscores the Need for Informed Decision Making
- The Labor Lawyer
- Strategic Initiatives for Countering the Class Action Epidemic
- The Littler Report
