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.
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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, a national non-profit gender justice advocacy organization, where she oversaw litigation, policy advocacy, direct legal services, and community engagement campaigns that recovered millions of dollars in compensation and affected systemic changes benefitting thousands of workers and students across the country. Jennifer has co-authored and contributed to numerous amicus curiae briefs and argued on behalf of amici before the Ninth Circuit in an important equal pay case. She has received numerous honors for her work as a plaintiff-side employment litigator, including being recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2022 and 2023, 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.
Jennifer also has extensive policy advocacy experience and 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 state, national, and global task forces and advisory bodies relating to the prevention and elimination of workplace harassment and sexual violence, pay equity, and accommodation of pregnant workers, and frequently writes and speaks publicly on issues related to employment and labor law, gender discrimination, pay equity, collective action, and litigation strategy.
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In addition to being an experienced employment lawyer and creative legal advocate, Jennifer is also a teacher. She has designed and taught law school courses on issues facing low-wage workers, the human rights of immigrant workers, and representing Spanish-speaking workers. Jennifer currently serves as a Supervising Attorney for the Workers, Law, and Organizing Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law. She is an active member of several professional and bar associations, including the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), and serves on the Board of Directors of East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, which provides legal services and support to low-income immigrants and people fleeing violence and persecution.
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Jennifer graduated from U.C. Berkeley Law (J.D. 2002) and Yale University (B.A. 1996). 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.
