Tamara S. Freeze is highly experienced in employment litigation, taking her cases to trial and obtaining multi-million dollar verdicts. 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. 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.
Tamara Freeze's Specialties:
Employment and Labor law: discrimination and harassment, wrongful discharge, sexual harassment, whistleblower retaliation, breach of contract, severance packages, unpaid compensation and benefits, wrongful termination, layoff practices, unpaid wages and trial advocacy.
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Labor and Employment
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- 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
- Mandarin: Spoken, Written
- Russian: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken, Written
- Founding Shareholder
- Workplace Justice Advocates, PLC
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- 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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- Top 75 California Labor and Employment Attorneys
- The Daily Journal
- Top 75 California Labor and Employment Attorneys
- The Daily Journal
- Rising Star
- California Super Lawyers Magazine
- 2012-2015
- Top 50 Up-and-Coming Women Southern California Lawyers, 2016-2019
- Super Lawyers
- State Bar of California
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- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA)
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- Activities: 2017 Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalist 2018, 2021 Annual Convention Presenter 2019 Plaintiff Trial Academy Graduate
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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 Korean American Bar Association (OCKABA)
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- American Bar Association
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- Ugly fights: FORCING YOUR NARCISSISTIC OPPOSING COUNSEL TO ”SURRENDER”
- Advocate Magazine
- Know your opponent: EIGHT DEFENSE TRICKS IN EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION
- Advocate Magazine
- Opening Statements: What Works and What Doesn't
- Advocate Magazine
- The Game Of Drones: Winning Your Case In Discovery, Consumer Attorneys of California, Maui, HI
- CAOC
- Trying Whistleblower Retaliation Cases, American Bar Association Labor & Employment Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
- American Bar Association
- Opening Statements, Women in Trial Travel Summit, Punta Mita, Mexico
