Hillary Benham-Baker joined Bryan Schwartz Law in 2009. Ms. Benham-Baker is a tireless advocate on behalf of employees who have suffered unlawful treatment from their employers such as discrimination, whistleblower retaliation or wage theft. Ms. Benham-Baker has represented clients in trial court and appellate matters on state, federal, and administrative levels.

Ms. Benham-Baker is a volunteer Supervising Attorney with the Legal Aid Society—Employment Law Center's Workers' Rights Clinic and a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association Legislative Committee. She is also a volunteer tutor to an elementary school student with Boost! West Oakland (boostoakland.org).

Ms. Benham-Baker served as an Extern to the Honorable Claudia Wilken in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in 2008. While attending University of California Hastings College of the Law, Ms. Benham-Baker worked as a law clerk at several plaintiff-side civil rights and employment law firms, including: Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen, and Dardarian; Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker, and Jackson; and Nichols Kaster. Ms. Benham-Baker also worked as a research assistant at the Center for WorkLife Law and was an intern with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Racial Justice Project. Ms. Benham-Baker was also a Street Law teacher at Mandela High School in Oakland, California.

ADMISSIONS
California Supreme Court
United States District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Northern District of California

EDUCATION
J.D. 2009, University of California Hastings College of Law, with Outstanding Achievement in Pro Bono

B.A. 2004, Pitzer College, with Honors

AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES
2011 Northern California "Rising Star"
Super Lawyers Magazine

UC Hastings Tony Patiño Fellow
Awarded for leadership, academic achievement, and public service

UC Hastings Women's Law Journal
Executive Symposium Editor, 2008-2009

UC Hastings College of Law, National Association of Woman Lawyers
Outstanding Law Student Award for 2009

UC Hastings, Moot Court Class
Best Brief and Best Oral Argument (Petitioner) Awards, 2007

UC Hastings, Top Student Awards
(Litigating Employment Discrimination Class Actions; Current Issues: WorkLife Law; Special Education Law)

Judge Robert H. Schnacke Externship Scholarship, 2008

California Employment Lawyers Association
2008 Annual Employment Law Conference Scholarship

MEMBERSHIPS
California Employment Lawyers Association
National Employment Lawyers Association
California Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section

PUBLICATIONS
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Protecting Gender Discrimination Named Plaintiffs from Employer Attacks, 20 Hastings Women's L.J. 83 (2009)

LANGUAGES
Spanish (basic)
Dutch (basic)