Renee Amador

Personal Introduction

Ms. Amador has been advocating for workers’ rights for over a decade beginning during college as a community organizer. Her legal career has focused exclusively on championing the rights of employees in the workplace. Ms. Amador has tackled everything from taking down corporate fraudsters hiding unpaid wages to vindicating the rights of whistleblowers who call out life-threatening safety violations in the workplace. Ms. Amador has always sought the most effective legal strategy, whether it be negotiations, direct action, statewide underground workplace investigations, collective organizing, or aggressive litigation. Ms. Amador received her J.D. in 2014 from the University of California, Irvine, and her B.A. in 2010 from Seattle University. Following law school, Ms. Amador worked as an Attorney with the Wage Justice Center, suing unscrupulous employers such as trucking logistic companies or large construction companies for unpaid wages on behalf of their drivers and laborers. She ran a one-of-its-kind mechanic’s lien program, helping day laborers recover their wages in the most challenging of circumstances, using legal tools usually reserved for banks and corporate lenders. In 2016, Ms. Amador joined the prestigious employment law firm Alexander Krakow + Glick LLP, now named Alexander Morrison + Fehr. In this position as an Associate Attorney, Ms. Amador honed her skills for aggressive and fearless litigation strategies on behalf of employees. Ms. Amador’s clients included every type of work, including C-suite executives, waitresses, maintenance workers, teachers, and engineers. From there, Ms. Amador transitioned her litigation skills into a Legal Director position with the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, overseeing a community workplace clinic and representing workers in LA’s Koreatown with diverse workplace issues. Most recently, Ms. Amador worked as Legal Director of the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund, a statewide watchdog group that works to eliminate illegal and unfair business practices in California’s janitorial industry. In 2022, Ms. Amador opened Renee Amador Law Office so that she can provide the highest quality of legal advocacy for California workers everywhere. Ms. Amador is also an Adjunct Clinical Professor with the Immigrant and Workers Rights Clinics at UC Irvine School of Law.