Jessica M. Iglesias represents employers in single-plaintiff employment disputes involving claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and related theories. She also advises management on employment and wage-related issues and conducts sensitive workplace investigations. In addition, Jessica has successfully represented major retail enterprises in discrimination claims brought by customers under California’s Unruh Act civil rights statute.

Jessica received her law degree from UCLA School of Law in 2011. During law school,
she volunteered as a Law Clerk for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She performed summer clerkships with Bet Tzedek Legal Services and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Prior to joining Sanchez & Amador, Jessica served for five months as a volunteer attorney in the Employment Litigation Unit of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, where she assisted in the defense of the city in employment actions brought by members of the Los Angeles Police Department. She also worked a year as an associate in the Employment Law group of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp.

As an undergraduate, Jessica studied a year abroad at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and is fluent in spoken and written Spanish. She graduated, cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2005, with a dual degree in Political Science and Sociology. Jessica worked for two years as a student researcher for the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the UCLA School of Medicine, where she managed a community clinic documentary project, conducting extensive interviews of community clinic directors throughout California.

Jessica is a member of the California Bar Association, the California Minority Counsel
Program, the Latina Lawyers Bar Association and the National Employment Law Council (NELC). She was chosen three times as a Fellow of the NELC Academy, an advanced skills training program for competitively selected employment defense associates. Jessica now serves on the faculty of the NELC Academy as well as on the NELC’s Los Angeles area planning committee.