Family Law

• Child Abuse

Criminal Law

• Sex Crimes
  Prior to law school, Caitlin worked for Alameda County’s Rape Crisis Center as a crisis counselor and campus advocate. She also worked, at various points, as a waitress, a river guide, and a community health educator.

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
• Employment Discrimination
  Information regarding federal laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace and regarding procedures for filing an administrative complaint for employment discrimination.
• Employment Litigation
  Liz specializes in representing labor organizations and their members. She is a founding partner of McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP, which formed in 2001. Prior to that, she worked for other union- side labor firms in Portland, Chicago, and San Francisco doing traditional labor law as well as plaintiffs’ employment litigation. Liz also worked as a staff attorney for two years for a non-profit disability rights organization.
• Severance Agreement
• Sexual Harassment
  Establishing protected class status under the US Equal Protection Clause for a domestic violence victim to challenge discrimination in her employment conditions

Health Law

• Disability Discrimination
  Liz emphasized work in the areas of labor and employment throughout her 30-plus years of practice. She was a founding partner in McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP and is now an Emeritus Attorney (inactive) with the firm. She represented employees in both state and federal courts and in administrative hearings. She advised employees in licensing matters before the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission and the Licensed Clinical Social Worker Board. Her employment law advice covered a wide range of topics including wage and hour questions, review of employment and severance agreements, hostile work environment matters, and claims involving wrongful discharge and/or any unlawful form of discrimination and retaliation. In particular, Liz provided advice and litigates cases involving sexual harassment, disability discrimination, race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination, and retaliation for opposing any unlawful conduct by public or private employers. She also worked to protect the rights of victims of domestic violence who experience problems with their employment.