Jamie Rudman has more than twenty-five years of experience representing management in labor and employment matters. She defends employers in state and federal lawsuits for wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, wage and contract disputes, and employment-related torts. Jamie has substantial experience litigating single-plaintiff, class and collective actions, and responding to agency investigations. She has represented employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board, as well as the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement and city agencies throughout California.

Jamie provides counsel on all aspects of human resources management, including discipline and termination, leaves, layoffs, wage and hour issues, commission plans, employment contracts, executive compensation, and employee policies. She also trains supervisors and management on a full range of labor and employment issues, and conducts and advises on sensitive workplace investigations. In labor matters, Jamie works with employers to address organizing campaigns, strikes and protests, unfair labor practice charges and in arbitration under collective bargaining agreements.

Jamie serves as Vice Chair of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) and is a past Chair of NAMWOLF’s Labor and Employment Committee. Jamie previously served as a Director of JVS of Los Angeles, which provides career training and placement services to over 30,000 people annually, and as Chair of the Alameda County Bar Association’s (ACBA) Labor and Employment Section. Jamie currently serves on the ACBA Judicial Appointments Evaluation Committee and was awarded the ACBA Distinguished Service Award in 2016.

A 1993 graduate of UCLA Law School, Jamie received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy of Industrialized Societies, with University Honors, from UC Berkeley in 1990. Jamie frequently speaks before business and legal groups on a wide range of employment labor issues. Jamie handles matters throughout California and leads the firm’s Oakland office.