Focus Areas
Examples of Joe’s experience include:
- Successfully representing a janitorial worker client in a California Labor Commissioner hearing to recover stolen wages.
- Assisting a day laborer in recovering stolen wages from a homeowner and contractor through a favorable settlement.
- Working with individual clients to collectively recover more than $120,000 in stolen wages.
- Developing a new partnership between two of LA’s leading nonprofit organizations to provide community legal education and pro bono resources to more than 800 working parents and caregivers in two years.
- Training and deploying pro bono lawyers and legal staff from an Am Law 100 firm and a Fortune 100 company to serve clients in a weekly workers’ rights clinic.
- Co-authoring a report on LA street vendor regulations, which led to the passage of new state and local laws that created a safer and more equitable landscape for street vendors and consumers.
- 2022-2024 Equal Justice Works Fellow, Bet Tzedek Legal Services Employment Rights Project, sponsored by Fish & Richardson, P.C. and Microsoft Corporation
Professional Associations
- California Lawyers Association
- Beverly Hills Bar Association
Community Activities
- California Lawyers for the Arts
- Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles Legal Network
Education
- University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 2022,
David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law & Policy; Disability Law Journal, chief note editor; El Centro Student Legal Clinics, co-executive director
- Tufts University, B.A., 2015, cum laude,
Religion & Political Science
Bar Admissions
- California
Languages
- Spanish