- Founded the Women's Employment Rights Clinic in 1993.
- Practiced labor law as house counsel for the California School Employees Association.
- Worked for the California Department of Industrial Relations and served as counsel to the California Industrial Welfare Commission.
- Private practice emphasized employment discrimination litigation.
- Member of Board of Advisors, The Discrimination Research Center, 1998-2006.
- Member of Board of Advisors, POWER Legal Services Project, a project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.
- One of the founders of the interdisciplinary San Francisco General Hospital Occupational Health Clinic.
- Bay Area Coalition for Civil Rights, 1989-1993.
- Member of the California and New York Bars.
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Editor
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Know Your Rights: A Guide to Employment Law for California Workers (Golden Gate University School of Law Women's Employment Rights Clinic 1997). Co-editor.
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Community Guide to Environmental & Occupational Safety Laws: Part I "Right-To-Know Laws: How to Obtain Information About Environmental Hazards in Your Community and Workplace." (Women's Employment Rights Clinic Manual 1996). Contributing author and editor.
Publications
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Justice Jesse Carter's Passionate Defense of Workers' Rights: Challenging the Majority's "Legal Legerdemain", ch. in The Great Dissents of the "Lone Dissenter": Justice Jesse W. Carter's Twenty Tumultuous Years on the California Supreme Court (Carolina Academic Press, 2010).
- Contributing author, Reinforcing the Seams: Guaranteeing the Promise of California's Landmark Anti-Sweatshop Law: an evaluation of Assembly Bill 633 Six Years Later, Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (2005).
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Leaves of Absence: Paid Family Care Leave: SB 1661 Creates the Family Temporary Disability Insurance System, 12 California Employment Law Reporter 202 (2002).
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Developing Issues In Retaliation Law, American Bar Association Section on Labor & Employment Law, 2002 Midwinter Meeting publication. (Paper prepared in conjunction with ABA panel presentation.)
- Co-author, Beyond Sex Harassment: Title VII Workplace Harassment on the Basis of Race, National Origin, Religion, Age, Disability, and Retaliatory Animus, 2001 California Employment Law Reporter (Issue No. 9).
- Advisor, Contingent Rights: The Legal Landscape for Nonstandard Workers in California, Center for Policy Initiatives, 2002.
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Accommodating the Conflict Between the Americans with Disabilities Act & the National Labor Relation Act's Collective Bargaining Obligations (NY University Forty-Sixth Annual Labor Conference. Little, Brown & Co. 1994). Co-author.
- Rossein, Employment Discrimination: Law and Litigation ch. 33 The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (Clark Boardman 1994).
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California Public Sector Labor Relations (Matthew Bender 1989). Contributing author.
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Employee and Union Guide to Labor Law (Clark Boardman 1983). Contributing author.
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