About
Ms. Amador has advocated for workers’ rights her entire career, beginning during college as a community organizer. She exclusively focuses 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.
Renee Amador Bio
Ms. Amador received her J.D. in 2014 from the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, and graduated magna cum laude from Seattle University with her B.A. in 2010.
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. Ms. Amador then transitioned to work 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. For the last two years, she has been supervising UC Irvine Law School students for the Trans Law Center Pro Bono Project.