Employment and Civil Rights
Meet Jennifer
Jennifer Reisch is the founder and principal attorney of Reisch Law. Jennifer is a passionate advocate and seasoned litigator who has dedicated her legal career to advancing economic, gender, and racial justice.
With over two decades of experience as an employment and civil rights attorney, Jennifer has served as counsel to scores of employees, students, and organizations in class actions and individual cases challenging discrimination, harassment, wage theft, unequal pay, retaliation, and other unfair and unlawful policies and practices in a wide range of industries and occupations. She represents working people of all walks of life throughout California and co-counsels with attorneys in other states. Jennifer also provides strategic advice and legal support to coalitions and organizations engaged in legal and policy advocacy, organizing efforts, and campaigns on workplace justice and civil rights issues.
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Prior to opening Reisch Law in 2021, Jennifer served as the Legal Director of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), where she led litigation, policy advocacy, direct legal services, and community engagement campaigns that recovered millions of dollars in compensation and brought about systemic changes benefitting workers and students across the country.
Jennifer played a key role in developing and implementing some of the nation’s strongest and most innovative pay equity and anti-sexual harassment laws, including the California Fair Pay Act of 2015 and the Property Service Workers Protection Act of 2016. She has served on a number of task forces and advisory bodies relating to the prevention and elimination of workplace harassment and sexual violence, pay equity, and accommodation of pregnant workers.
Jennifer has received numerous honors for her work in employment litigation, including being recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer from 2022-2026, a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” every year from 2009 through 2012, and among the Daily Journal Top 75 Labor & Employment Lawyers in California in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
In addition to her litigation and advocacy experience, Jennifer is also a teacher who has designed and taught law school courses on workers' rights, employment law, and public policy. She currently serves as a Supervising Attorney with the Workers, Tenants, Law and Organizing Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law, and frequently writes and speaks publicly on issues related to employment and labor law, gender discrimination, equal pay, collective action, and impact litigation.
Jennifer is a proud member of the Board of Directors for East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, an organization that provides legal services and support to low-income immigrants and people fleeing violence and persecution, and is active in several local, state, and national bar associations, including the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) and the Alameda County Bar Association.
Jennifer graduated from U.C. Berkeley Law and received her undergraduate degree from Yale University. She is trilingual (English/Spanish/French) and lives in Oakland, California with her partner and children, where they enjoy the abundant food, art, culture, and natural beauty of their community.
