About
Rachel Lederman is a humans’s legal professional based totally within the San Francisco Mission District and in Oakland. She fights for tenants, protesters, prisoners, people, coincidence victims and folks in involuntary intellectual health commitments. She is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, and a founder and Board officer of Water Protector Legal Collective, the legal crew that defended the 841 humans arrested resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock, that's now a nonprofit business enterprise that provides legal aid for Indigenous-led environmental moves. Rachel has obtained tremendous victories in effect civil rights litigation to prevent police and government repression of dissent during the last thirty years. In 2014, Rachel and co-suggest Jim Chanin and Julie Houk acquired a $4.five million settlement for Scott Olsen, a 24 year antique Marines veteran who become shot in the head with a lead-crammed “much less lethal” munition through an Oakland Police Officer as he stood peacefully demonstrating in help of the Occupy motion for monetary justice. Rachel and her spouse Alexsis Beach have sons and have been plaintiffs in In re Marriage Cases, wherein the California Supreme Court overturned nation legal guidelines discriminating towards equal-sex couples in marriage in a ancient 2008 selection. › ›
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Legal Issues
- Landlord Tenant
- Evictions, Housing Discrimination, Landlord Rights, Rent Control, Tenants Rights
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
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Languages
- Spanish
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