Jennifer A. Reisch
Adjunct Professor Jennifer Reisch is an attorney at Talamantes/Villegas/Carrera, LLP in San Francisco, where she specializes in representing low-wage and immigrant workers in class action wage and hour, employment discrimination, and related human rights litigation. Prior to joining TVC in 2005, Professor Reisch practiced at Bahan & Associates in Pasadena, California and served as the 2002-2003 Public Interest Law Fellow at Public Advocates in San Francisco. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law and was admitted to practice in 2002. Ms. Reisch received her B.A. in History with honors, as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale College in 1996, and is fluent in Spanish and French.
Professor Reisch was appointed as an adjunct at Hastings in the Spring of 2009, and previously taught a course on the rights of immigrant workers in the United States at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, and has contributed to the publication of several litigation manuals, articles, and other materials about the rights of immigrant and low-wage workers in employment and related civil rights areas. Professor Reisch currently volunteers as a supervising attorney with the Workers’ Rights Clinic of the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center and serves on the National Steering Committee of Esperanza: The Immigrant Women’s Legal Initiative, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. She is also a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association and its Immigrant Employment Rights Committee, as well as the National Employment Lawyers Association and its Low Wage Worker Advisory Group.