Jamie Rudman
Partner
Employment Litigation and Counseling, Workplace Investigations
Email: rudman@sar-llp.com
Phone: 510-788-8702
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  • UCLA School of Law (1993)
  • University of California, Berkeley, B.A. (1993)

  • National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF)
    • Director (December 2016–Present)
    • Practice Area Committee Oversight Co-Chair (February 2017–Present)
    • Communications Committee Co-Chair (2017–2019)
    • Labor & Employment Practice Area Committee Co-Chair (2016–2017)
    • Newsletter Co-Editor (February 2013–September 2016)
  • Alameda County Bar Association
    • Judicial Appointments Evaluation Committee (2014–2018)
    • Labor & Employment Section
      • Executive Committee Member (January 2012–Present)
      • Committee Chair (2015 & 2016)
      • Secretary (2014)
  • Jobs Vision Success, Los Angeles
    • Director and Member of the Personnel Practices Committee (2014–2018)

Employment Litigation and Counseling
Workplace Investigations

Jamie Rudman has more than thirty years of experience representing management in labor and employment matters.  She defends employers in state and federal lawsuits for wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, wage and contract disputes, and employment-related torts.  Jamie has substantial experience litigating single-plaintiff, class and collective actions, and responding to high-risk agency investigations.  She has represented employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board, as well as the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement and city agencies throughout California.

Jamie provides counsel on all aspects of human resources management, including discipline and termination, leaves, layoffs, wage and hour issues, commission plans, employment contracts, executive compensation, and employee policies.  She also trains supervisors and management on a full range of labor and employment issues, and conducts and advises on sensitive workplace investigations. Jamie also serves as an independent mediator in employment disputes.

Jamie is the immediate past Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) and is a past Chair of NAMWOLF’s Labor and Employment Committee.  Jamie previously served as a Director of JVS of Los Angeles, which provides career training and placement services to over 30,000 people annually, as Chair of the Alameda County Bar Association’s (ACBA) Labor and Employment Section, and on the ACBA Judicial Appointments Evaluation Committee. She was awarded the ACBA Distinguished Service Award in 2016.

A 1993 graduate of UCLA Law School, Jamie received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy of Industrialized Societies, with University Honors, from UC Berkeley in 1990.  Jamie frequently speaks before business and legal groups on a wide range of employment law topics. Jamie handles matters throughout California and leads the firm’s Oakland office.