Jessica Spierer
Associate Attorney
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Jessica Spierer joined Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff, and Lowe LLP in 2022, prepared to fight for employees’ rights. Jessica obtained her legal degree from the University of California Berkeley School of Law, graduating with a Public Interest and Social Justice Certificate. As an editor for both the California Law Review and Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Jessica passionately engaged in legal scholarship. Committed to cultivating a sustainable network of future plaintiff-side attorneys, Jessica co-founded the university’s first Plaintiffs’ Law Association.
Since the inception of her career, Jessica has continuously advocated for workers’ rights, including supporting individual workers facing harassment, discrimination and wage and hour issues, as well as employees in larger class action suits. Most recently, she represented workers as a law clerk at Outten & Golden LLP, Nichols Kaster LLP, and Legal Aid at Work. As a member of Legal Aid’s Gender Equity and LGBTQ Rights group, Jessica helped create a “toolkit” for Trans and Non-Binary employees, providing a comprehensive and accessible resource for employees to understand their rights.
Jessica graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature, Anthropology, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
- Represents a senior female executive in a gender discrimination case against a publicly traded technology company.
- Represents entertainment executives pursuing claims of sexual orientation discrimination.
- Represents an ousted CEO in a whistleblower retaliation and wrongful termination action.
- Represents multiple sales representatives denied commissions from their sales and earned wages.
- Co-Founder of UC Berkeley School of Law Plaintiffs’ Law Association, 2022
- Teaching assistant for 1L Legal Research and Writing Course at UC Berkeley School of Law, 2020-2021
- Supervising Attorney for the Workers’ Rights Clinic
- California Employment Lawyers Association
- Prosser Prize 2021 Fall: Consumer Litigation Course of the Case
- UC Berkeley School of Law Public Interest and Social Justice Certificate, 2022
- 2021 FAIR Employee Justice Summer Clerkship Award
- 2021 Kraw Law Group Scholarship
- World of Work Social Justice Fellowship, 2017
- Brandeis University Anthropology Department Commencement Speaker, 2018
- University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- J.D. – 2022
- Public Interest and Social Justice Certificate
- J.D. – 2022
- Brandeis University
- B.A. – 2018, Magna Cum Laude
- Majors: Anthropology, English Literature, and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
- B.A. – 2018, Magna Cum Laude
- California Law Review, Senior Development Editor, 2022
- Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Associate Editor, 2022
- Author of Annual PLA Newsletter, 2021