Employment and Civil Rights
Practice Areas
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Reisch Law proudly represents working people in all types of employment and labor related matters. The firm’s legal services range from advising and negotiating on behalf of individuals, to litigating cases, including class actions, from inception through trial and appeal. Jennifer takes a collaborative, client-centered approach to representing workers from a wide range of industries and occupations, from low-paid workers to professionals and executives. Jennifer actively listens to clients’ needs and goals to devise strategy and provide thoughtful, creative legal advice.
Reisch Law also regularly co-counsels with other attorneys and firms on a broad range of labor and civil rights matters, and provides strategic advice, technical support, training, and political advocacy consulting services to worker-led organizations.
Whether counseling individuals or working with groups, Jennifer is passionate about making people feel heard, helping clients tell their own stories, and leveraging the law and her legal skills to affect systemic change.
Employment Law for Working People
Reisch Law helps individuals navigate challenging situations, seek redress, and hold employers accountable for unfair and illegal conduct and practices through advice and counseling, negotiation, and litigation on a wide range of employment matters in areas including:
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Discrimination in hiring, pay, promotion, assignments, discipline, or other terms and conditions of employment because of race, sex, gender, LGBTQ+ status, national origin, ethnicity, color, caste, familial or marital status, disability, medical condition, or other protected characteristic; intersectional claims
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Sexual and Racial Harassment in the workplace, at school, and in other institutional settings
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Unequal Pay for substantially similar or equal work performed by employees of different sexes, races, or ethnicities; segregation or channeling of employees by sex and/or race; paying women and/or people of color less for work in jobs requiring the same or similar levels of skill, effort, responsibility, education and experience as those performed by male and/or white employees
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Wage Theft and Employee Misclassification resulting in failure to pay overtime, minimum wages, commissions, and other wage and hour violations
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Unfair Treatment of Disabled, Pregnant, and Caregiving Workers including denials of reasonable accommodation, interference with or retaliation for taking job-protected disability, pregnancy, or family medical leave, and disparate treatment of employees with caregiving responsibilities
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Retaliation against employees who engage in protected or concerted activity, including whistleblowing
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Severance Negotiations for employees who have been laid off, terminated, or are being pushed out, and for those who seek to leave a toxic work environment on good terms
Strategic Consulting for Advocacy & Organizing
Jennifer advises and collaborates with organizations, activists, movement leaders, and fellow lawyers to develop and carry out impact litigation, policy advocacy, community education, and organizing campaigns aimed at advancing workers’ rights, gender equity, and racial and economic justice.
Impact Litigation and Organizing Campaigns
Jennifer serves as co-counsel and consultant to law firms, non-profits, coalitions, and worker-led organizations to challenge unfair working conditions, combat systemic discrimination, advance economic justice, and build worker power.
​Legislative and Policy Advocacy
Jennifer provides strategic advice and assistance to organizations engaged in legislative and public policy development, advocacy, and implementation.
Community Legal Education and Training
Jennifer helps to design and conduct training workshops for workers, organizers, and community members on issues related to workers' legal rights and workplace justice.
