JOSEPH E. JARAMILLO

jjaramillo@gdblegal.com

Joseph Jaramillo joined Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian as an associate in 2000 and became a partner in 2011.  He concentrates his practice in the areas of wage and hour and employment discrimination class and collective actions.  Mr. Jaramillo has also represented employees in severance negotiations and plaintiffs in lending discrimination, health care overcharging, attorneys' fees, and whistleblower cases.  He has significant experience with class arbitration issues, including defeating defendants' attempts to enforce class action waivers and representing claimants in arbitration proceedings.

EDUCATION

• J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
• B.A. (High Honors), Political Science, University of California, Davis, 1991

BAR ADMISSIONS

• State Bar of California
• United States District Court, Northern District of California
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1995
• United States District Court, Arizona, 1997
• United States District Court, Central District of California, 2002
• Third Circuit Court of Appeals, 2006

AWARDS

• Honored for volunteer work at workers' rights clinic, Centro Legal de la Raza (Oakland), 2005
• Honored for volunteer work, La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco), 2004
• Honored for outstanding service to the legal community, Minority Bar Coalition and La Raza Lawyers' Association, 1999
• Honored for community contribution, League of United Latin American Citizens, 1999

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, August 2011 - present
• Annual Dinner Advisory Board, La Raza Centro Legal, 2011
• Volunteer Attorney, Legal Aid of Marin, Marin Law Day 2011
• California Employment Lawyers' Association, 2005-present
• East Bay La Raza Lawyers' Association, 2011-present
• Board of Directors, Centro Legal de la Raza, 2003-2005
• Member, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, 2000-2006

PRIOR EMPLOYMENT

• Environmental Counsel, University of California Office of the General Counsel, Oakland, 2004-2005
• Associate, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, San Francisco, 1999-2000
• Staff Attorney, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, San Francisco, 1996-1999
• Environmental Law Fellow, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, San Francisco, 1995-1996

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