Rebecca Hamburg, Los Angeles Lawyer, Civil Rights, Personal Injury, Employee Disputes

Rebecca
Hamburg

Rebecca M. Hamburg

Rebecca M. Hamburg concentrates her practice in employment discrimination, civil rights, and international human rights law. Prior to joining Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP, she represented employees in discrimination class action lawsuits as part of the Employee Rights Group at Berger & Montague, P.C. in Philadelphia, PA, and practiced federal employment discrimination and civil rights law with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Gebhardt & Associates, LLP, representing federal employees before administrative agencies and in federal courts.

Ms. Hamburg currently is a member of the Executive Board of the National Employment Lawyers Association, which advances employee rights and serves lawyers who advocate for equality and justice in the American workplace. She also serves as the co-chair of NELA’s Developing and New Attorneys Committee (NELA-DNA), a Committee which she co-founded, and is a member of NELA’s Membership Committee (including the subcommittee on Law Student Outreach) and the Annual Convention Planning Committee. Ms. Hamburg is also a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), a local affiliate of NELA.

Ms. Hamburg was previously an Adjunct Professor in the George Washington University Law School’s Scholarly Writing Program where she taught upper-division scholarly writing to law students. While in law school, Ms. Hamburg was the Executive Notes Editor for the AIPLA Quarterly Journal and an executive board member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Board. In addition, through the International Human Rights Clinic, she provided research and drafting assistance for Respondent's attorneys in the Supreme Court case, Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004), regarding the Alien Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. § 1350), as well as foreign arrest powers of U.S. law enforcement officers in the companion case.

She received her B.A., cum laude, from the University of California, San Diego with high honors in her major, in 2001 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Subsequently, she earned her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School in 2004.

Ms. Hamburg is admitted to practice in the following jurisdictions:
State of California
District of Columbia
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

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