About the Firm

In 1970, young lawyers active in the student civil rights and anti-war movement founded the firm in makeshift offices on Bonnie Brae Street in downtown Los Angeles, determined to dedicate their practice of law to advance the cause of working people. From the firm’s inception, we have been committed to providing our clients with the highest quality legal services, and we continue to devote our time and energies to the principle that our clients and the important work they do deserve the very best advocacy and counsel. Through the ensuing decades, as the name of the firm has changed and its expertise has evolved with the needs of workers and its union and trust fund clients, the firm remains true to its original purpose of supporting progressive social movements wherever we can be of service—in the courtroom, the boardroom, on the picket line, at the halls of Sacramento and Washington, D.C., and from the rural reaches of Watsonville, California, to the city streets of Los Angeles, to other centers of worker power across the country.