PAMELA D. CHANDRAN represents unions in all matters.  Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Chandran served as a labor-side attorney in Los Angeles, representing health care workers and longshore workers.  She has extensive experience in defending unions from attacks by management and in matters of discrimination and fair representation involving the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

For seven years before entering law school, Ms. Chandran worked as a union organizer, representative and negotiator for locals of the Service Employees International Union both in Southern California and in New England.  Ms. Chandran led groups of health care workers on strikes and served as a media coordinator, developed multi-faceted contract campaigns, organized unrepresented health care workers and negotiated hospital and nursing home contracts for numerous bargaining units in the Los Angeles area.

While in law school, Ms. Chandran successfully organized the law school's research assistants into a UAW bargaining unit which represented other student-workers, and served as a steward.  She was admitted to the highly competitive Public Interest and Policy Program at UCLA, which nurtures law students committed to working people's interests.  She served as a law clerk for Bush Gottlieb for two years prior to graduation.