Erika Jacobsen White, Esq.

07/26/2021

Erika Jacobsen White, Esq. updated their website address.

Erika Jacobsen White, Esq. updated their website address.

04/22/2021

Honored to join these talented Womxn of the APA tonight!

Honored to join these talented Womxn of the APA tonight!

04/22/2021

Accountability is a first step. We must keep fighting for real justice.

03/18/2021

Join me for Fund Her's Women’s Equity Salon this Sunday, March 21st at 4pm PT/7pm ET. The event is going to be a panel discussion on the feminization of poverty, equal pay, health inequity, and the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women.

The conversation will be led by Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Director of UC Berkeley's Food Labor Research Center. The event will feature an incredible panel of women committed to the fight for justice - including Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan, who is running for Governor of Virginia. We are also proud to welcome remarks by Congresswoman Barbara Lee!

Register Here:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fundher-womensequitysalon

Join me for Fund Her's Women’s Equity Salon this Sunday, March 21st at 4pm PT/7pm ET. The event is going to be a panel discussion on the feminization of poverty, equal pay, health inequity, and the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women.

The conversation will be led by Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Director of UC Berkeley's Food Labor Research Center. The event will feature an incredible panel of women committed to the fight for justice - including Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan, who is running for Governor of Virginia. We are also proud to welcome remarks by Congresswoman Barbara Lee!

Register Here:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fundher-womensequitysalon

12/01/2020

First Shift Justice » Helping working families make it work

Proud to join Joseph Greenwald & Laake, P.A. in being a sponsor of First Shift Justice Project! On Giving Tuesday, please consider supporting their mission to empower low-income pregnant women and parents to protect their workplace rights! http://www.firstshift.org/ #empoweringwomen #firstshiftjusticeproject #standupforyourrights #givingtuesday

First Shift Justice Project is a nonprofit organization that helps working mothers in low wage jobs assert their workplace rights to prevent job loss.

09/27/2020

First Shift Justice » Helping working families make it work

Honored to be joining the Board of this amazing organization!

http://www.firstshift.org

First Shift Justice Project is a nonprofit organization that helps working mothers in low wage jobs assert their workplace rights to prevent job loss.

06/10/2020

End Qualified Immunity - Public Justice

"Under Supreme Court precedent, a victim of police brutality must demonstrate that, at the time of the abuse, the courts had already held that behavior to be unconstitutional. Too often, courts demand an exact match between the facts of the current case and facts of a previous case to show that it was already “clearly established” that the conduct in question was illegal. That can pose an impossible bar for many victims of police brutality. Plus, qualified immunity gives courts an out to avoid deciding whether police abuses were, in fact, unconstitutional—meaning courts are less likely to create that “clearly established law” necessary for future plaintiffs....

[...]

The urgent need for this legislation is made clear by a recent Reuters investigation, which found a dramatic spike in successful attempts by police to use the law as a shield from accountability: During a two-year span from 2005-2007, appellate courts ruled in favor of police in qualified immunity cases 44% of the time; just over a decade later (2017-2019), that grew to 57%."

https://www.publicjustice.net/end-qualified-immunity/

Until there is true accountability in our country, there can be no true healing or reform.

06/05/2020

Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers' Association

As civil rights lawyers, and as stewards of the justice system, we have a direct obligation to stand against this oppression.

The Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers’ Association stands with the protestors, the Floyd Family, George Floyd, and the countless others who have been subjugated, brutalized, terrorized, and then marginalized by systematic and institutionalized racism. As Americans and members of the Bar we must finally reckon with the history of racism in this country and the role of our own profession in perpetuating the oppression of black and brown people. Unless we acknowledge, take responsibility for, and genuinely try to mend this past once and for all, as if our lives depended on it, the list of names to which George Floyd has been added will never end.

What happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis is the result of a long history of brutalization starting in 1619 when the first enslaved men and women arrived on this continent. In 155 years, we have merely moved from Jim Crow to a collective amnesia or pretending that this is not happening. If we stand by in silence or inaction, we are complicit.

As a Board of trial lawyers committed to fighting for justice, we recognize that many of us have white privilege and implicit and explicit biases. We must do better. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our organization, of our law firms and to fighting for the rights of the oppressed. Most importantly, we are committed to listening to and giving a seat at the table to those who have been oppressed. We stand together with our members and we stand with Black Lives Matter.

ACCTLA Board of Governors - June, 2020

06/05/2020

White silence is violence. #BlackLivesMatter

12/21/2018

Planned Parenthood and others respond to accusations that they mistreated pregnant employees

Pregnant employees are not "guinea pigs" to be used for market research. Proud to stand up with to Ms. Johnson against discrimination and retaliation at Natera, Inc. #BumpedOut #MomsToo @CNN @nytimes @CBSSF https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/20/health/planned-parenthood-pregnant-employees-allegations/index.html

Planned Parenthood and other organizations that serve or cater to women are defending themselves against allegations of various forms of discrimination against pregnant employees.

12/20/2018

Planned Parenthood Is Accused of Mistreating Pregnant Employees

Jacobsen White Law, P.C. is honored to stand up beside Melissa Blain Johnson against the hypocrisy at Natera, Inc., who discriminated against her because of her pregnancy and retaliated against her when she complained. The pervasiveness of pregnancy discrimination is deep, and we must stand up.

No more getting #BumpedOut of the workplace.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/business/planned-parenthood-pregnant-employee-discrimination-women.html

Employers that champion women face accusations of discriminating against their pregnant workers, showing how widespread the problem is in American workplaces.

11/02/2018

Find Your Polling Place | California Secretary of State

As an employee in California you are entitled to up to two hours PAID time off to vote at the beginning or end of your shift.

You need to give your employer two business days advanced notice.

Polls open 7 am to 8 pm this upcoming Tuesday 11/6.

Does your employer know your rights? Employers must post a notice of employees’ voting rights at least 10 days before a statewide election.

Get registered and find your polling place here: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/polling-place/

VOTE.

If you are not currently registered or you registered to vote after October 22, 2018, please see our Conditional Voter Registration page.

10/09/2018

Claremont Sued for Alleged Sex Assault by Massage Therapist

Honored to represent Jane Doe in standing up for justice after being sexually assaulted by a massage therapist at the Claremont Hotel & Spa, A Fairmont Hotel. The massage therapist who did this is still employed there. #BelieveWomen

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Claremont-Spa-Sued-for-Alleged-Sex-Assault-by-Massage-Therapist-496033211.html%3famp=y

The Claremont Hotel and Spa is facing claims from a guest who says she was sexually assaulted by her massage therapist during an appointment last December at the luxury resort.

07/12/2018

Ex-Worker At Prenatal Testing Firm Claims She Was Fired For Getting Pregnant

I am honored to represent Ms. Johnson together with my colleague Jayme Walker at Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli & Brewer in standing up for women's rights. No more getting baby #bumpedout of the workplace.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/07/11/natera-worker-pregnancy-discrimination-lawsuit/

Pregnancy discrimination is still an issue for women in the workplace, and one former employee claims it even happened to her at a company that's all about helping pregnant women.

03/02/2018

Firing Pregnant Women Is Worse For Employers In The Long Run

Discrimination because of your pregnancy or pregnancy related disability is illegal. Know your rights.

“When a man has to leave work due, say, to severe nausea incident to chemotherapy, it is something the employer has to live with: It’s seen as the cost of hiring human beings. If a woman has to leave work, say, due to severe nausea incident to pregnancy, she is seen as demanding special treatment. Men are still the measure of what is seen as the inevitable cost of hiring human beings. Anything related to women alone is seen as somehow extra.” - Joan Williams

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/firing-pregnant-women-is-worse-for-employers-in-the_us_5a945a6ee4b0d02ea9314533

The irony is that firing pregnant women isn’t just bad ethics — it’s bad economics.

11/30/2017

Analysis | The industries with the worst sexual harassment problem

Harassment is about power. Many of the same industries plagued by sex harassment are also entrenched in cultures of racism. We need to think about where these forms of social violence intersect and fight harassment in all of its iterations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/24/the-industries-with-the-worst-sexual-harassment-problem/?utm_term=.b86f1f3724d8

Workers in food service and retail are at much higher risk, research says.

09/20/2017

On sexual harassment: I don't need a thicker skin, you need a conscience.

It takes courage to stand up.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/opinions/women-dont-need-thicker-skin-threadgould-opinion/index.html

Michelle Threadgould says that Amber Tamblyn's recent New York Times op-ed is a stark reminder of how many people enable harassers and predators to thrive at women's expense.

09/11/2017

Consumer Attorneys of California

Consumer Attorneys of California

From Paul Bland at Public Justice: "The site Equifax has set up to supposedly help customers identify whether their information was stolen as part of the hack has – you guessed it – a forced arbitration clause aimed at keeping consumers out of court, and shielding Equifax from lawsuits....Congress shouldn’t play along with Equifax’s bid to stay rich, screw consumers, and walk away scot-free." More in his outrageous story below...

07/28/2017

Justice Department Says Rights Law Doesn’t Protect Gays

The Fair Employment and Housing Act protects LGBTQ workers in California, but for employees in states without solid civil rights laws, this could have a devastating impact. #nojusticefromtheDOJ

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/nyregion/justice-department-gays-workplace.html

The unusual brief came in a Long Island case that could prove to be a test of whether federal anti-discrimination laws should cover gay workers.

01/05/2017

California Expands Equal Pay Law To Include Protections For Race And Ethnicity

Beginning January 1st, California now prohibits wage discrimination based on race and ethnicity in addition to gender. Further, you cannot be retaliated against for disclosing your wage to your colleagues.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-equal-pay-race_us_57c07edbe4b085c1ff2937f3

It will be the most progressive wage equality law in the country.

01/05/2017

Jacobsen White Law, P.C.'s cover photo

11/10/2016

Do not be silent. Do not cower in fear. Stand up. Stand up with dignity. Stand up. The greatest walls we must destroy are those within ourselves. #IWillStandWithYou #LoveNotHate #BlackLivesMatter

09/15/2016

Why Americans don't take sick days - BBC News

Although most Americans don't have the benefit of paid sick leave, California's Healthy Workplace Family Act went into effect January 1, 2015 and grants all employees who have completed a 90 day probationary period with an employer, and who worked at least 30 days in the last year in California, to accrue paid sick leave. Employers must allow employees to take a minimum of 3 days or 24 hours of leave per year. Sick leave can be used for the employee's own medical condition or to care for a family member. Sick leave can also be used by victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking - and the law prevents retaliation for taking accrued sick leave. It isn't much, but it's a start.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37353742

Hillary Clinton is not alone in attempting to work through illness - millions of Americans do it every day.

08/31/2016

Honored to be recognized as a Northern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers for the fifth year in a row!

08/31/2016

Jacobsen White Law, P.C.

07/08/2016

#BlackLivesMatter

06/13/2016

Why the Orlando Attack Will Not Be an Isolated Crime

Standing in solidarity. Standing against discrimination. Standing against harassment. Standing against hate.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/the-extraordinarily-common-violence-against-lgbt-people-in-america/486722/

This is the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Discriminatory attitudes toward LGBT people are still common, despite advances in LGBT rights over the past several years.

03/23/2016

Supreme Court Hands A Major Victory To Workers Who Were Stiffed On Overtime Pay

Supreme Court Hands A Major Victory To Workers Who Were Stiffed On Overtime Pay

https://apple.news/ALDmwgSMfSfWY7fbP202kFA

The case is one of many the court heard while Justice Antonin Scalia was still on the bench.

03/19/2016

Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream

In offices, warehouses, and even on the river of the Grand Canyon, it is time to stand up. I commend these brave women for letting their story be told.

"Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream"
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/park-rangers/

Why some women in national parks and forests have a tougher time than women in the military.

03/18/2016

High Schools Are Failing Girls Who Report Sexual Assault

High Schools Are Failing Girls Who Report Sexual Assault

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2016/03/09/high-schools-sexual-assault-investigations_n_9488892.html

A rising number of high schools are under federal investigation for complaints they failed to protect alleged rape victims from coming face-to-face with ...

03/16/2016

The U.S. Government's Warning to Courts That Jail The Poor

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/03/department-of-justice-open-letter/473742/

The U.S. Department of Justice has told local and state courts to avoid practices that hurt low-income individuals most.

03/01/2016

Police in six Southern California counties have shot more than 2,000 suspects since 2004. Only...

Police in six Southern California counties have shot more than 2,000 suspects since 2004. Only one officer was prosecuted -- he was acquitted
http://lat.ms/1UcdXrk

A grainy video showed 21-year-old Iraq war veteran Elio Carrion on the ground, pleading with a San Bernardino County deputy who held him at gunpoint.

02/27/2016

A Colleague Drank My Breast Milk and Other Wall Street Tales

Fighting sex discrimination starts with standing up.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/a-colleague-drank-my-breast-milk-and-other-wall-street-tales.html?referer=&_r=0

Accusations of discrimination are hashed out in conference rooms, and silenced with a check.

02/26/2016

Government may soon begin putting an end to forced arbitration clauses

Important examination of forced arbitration clauses by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20160226-column.html

If you've got a credit card, you've been forced to kiss away your constitutional right to sue the card issuer. But it's looking increasingly likely that this is about to change.