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Joseph B.Philipson

Associatemoc.eniHnospmohT@nospilihP.eoJ
Los Angeles

O 310.382.1328

Joseph B.Philipson

Associate

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