Terp Law Celebrates One Year in Business, Vaccine

This summer marks Terp Law’s first year in business. Looking back on year one, I am proud of the clients who entrusted their employment disputes to the firm and their recent victories;* I am grateful to my community of colleagues, friends, and family who have supported me; I am thankful for my vaccine.

In 2020, I planned to start a workers’ rights law firm dedicated to the idea that every person deserves to be treated with dignity at work. I did not anticipate a world-wide pandemic. In March 2020, California and its numerous counties began taking (sometimes conflicting) steps to shut down all workplaces except those deemed essential. I briefly put my plans on hold and spent the early weeks of the pandemic manning a coronavirus legal assistance hotline at the Center for Workers Rights. I helped workers whose jobs were impacted by the pandemic make sense of the changing legal landscape, and listened to the ways the pandemic was affecting their lives.

Terp Law, founded in June 2020, was forged by the pandemic in a number of ways. Terp Law — which specializes in wage and hour, discrimination, and retaliation cases — allows clients to connect with the firm virtually. The firm aims to serve clients in a trauma-informed manner, and with an eye to the trauma of enduring a pandemic. True to its original mission, the firm seeks to ensure that clients enjoy existing workplace protections and obtain justice when they don’t.

Here’s to another year of serving clients, and striving to advance civil and economic rights in the workplace.

*Disclaimer: Prior victories do not guarantee future results.