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THERESA M. TRABER - FOUNDING PARTNER Founding partner Theresa M. Traber received her Juris Doctor degree from Northeastern University Law School in 1984. Since becoming a member of the bar in December, 1984, she has concentrated her efforts, first as a partner at Litt & Stormer and then with Traber & Voorhees, primarily on individual and class action lawsuits alleging employment and housing discrimination under federal and state law. In addition, she has handled cases alleging assorted violations of constitutional rights, including police abuse and misconduct by U.S. military installations and other federal entities, and other public interest cases, such as actions brought by poor tenants for damages and injunctive relief to remedy the slum conditions of their apartment buildings. More recently, Ms. Traber has concentrated on bringing class action cases seeking overtime wages for low-wage and middle-income workers and on international human rights litigation. For the last several years, Ms. Traber has been recognized as one of Southern California’s Super Lawyers and one of the top 50 female lawyers in Southern California by Los Angeles Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine. In 2001, the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation honored Ms. Traber and her co-counsel as finalists for Public Interest Trial Lawyers of the Year for their work in Doe v. Radovan Karadzic, which resulted in a verdict of more than $4.5 billion for 21 Muslim families whose members were murdered, tortured, raped and otherwise brutalized as a part of the Serbian “ethnic cleansing” campaign in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ms. Traber serves as an Alternate Lawyer Representative for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. |
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BERT VOORHEES - FOUNDING PARTNER Founding partner Bert Voorhees graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA Law School in 1988. In early 1989, Mr. Voorhees started as an attorney with Litt & Stormer and worked on a wide spectrum of federal and state court civil rights cases until the firm’s dissolution in August, 1991. These cases included police abuse matters, state fair housing cases, employment discrimination cases, and other public interest matters involving civil and constitutional rights. Since the inception of Traber & Voorhees, Mr. Voorhees has handled significant, complex class action and impact civil rights litigation. In 1997, Mr. Voorhees was honored by the Pasadena Chapter of the NAACP and Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich for representing the local chapter of the NAACP in opposing various provisions of a Pasadena gang injunction. In 2007, Mr. Voorhees was awarded the President's Award by the Pasadena Chapter of the NAACP for his community involvement and his years of service to the NAACP. In 2007, Mr. Voorhees was also honored by the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance for successfully prosecuting and settling a large wage and hour and discrimination class action on behalf of virtually all of the Latino and Korean American workers employed by the largest supermarket in Koreatown. |
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LAUREN TEUKOLSKY - PARTNER Lauren Teukolsky joined Traber & Voorhees as a partner in September 2011. Ms. Teukolsky graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA School of Law in 2000. Before coming to Traber & Voorhees, Ms. Teukolsky was the Pro Bono Director at Bet Tzedek Legal Services, where she oversaw all pro bono and volunteer programs for one of the biggest providers of free legal services in Los Angeles County. From 2002 to 2010, Ms. Teukolsky was an associate at the public interest law firm of Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick. Before that, Ms. Teukolsky clerked for the Honorable Harry Pregerson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and for the Honorable A. Howard Matz on the District Court for the Central District of California. Ms. Teukolsky has litigated on behalf of plaintiffs in a wide range of cases, including two high-profile international human rights cases against multinational oil companies, several class actions, and a number of individual cases involving police abuse, jail conditions, discrimination, sex harassment, breach of contract, and wage and hour violations. Many of her cases have resulted in six- and seven-figure settlements. From 2004-2010, Ms. Teukolsky was named a Southern California Rising Star in the Super Lawyers "Rising Star" Edition. She has taught at UCLA School of Law as an adjunct professor, and serves on the Board of the Eviction Defense Network. |
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BECKY PETERSON-FISHER - ASSOCIATE Associate Rebecca Peterson-Fisher, who joined Traber & Voorhees in 2011, graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law in 2007. As a law student, Ms. Peterson-Fisher interned with several public interest law firms and externed with the Honorable Ronald George, former Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. After graduating, she clerked for U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger in the Southern District of New York. Ms. Peterson-Fisher began practicing law as a staff attorney with the Brooklyn Family Defense Project, a program providing interdisciplinary advocacy to parents in dependency cases in Brooklyn Family Court. Prior to joining Traber & Voorhees, she also represented low income clients and engaged in policy advocacy as a staff attorney with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County's Administrative Law and Advocacy Group. Ms. Peterson-Fisher has published academic scholarship in the New York University Review of Law and Social Change examining the interaction between the history of policing, bail, bounty hunting and current civil rights law. At Traber & Voorhees, she has handled employment discrimination cases and wage and hour class actions. |
Traber & Voorhees | 128 N. Fair Oaks Ave. , 204 Pasadena, CA 91103 | Phone: (626) 585-9611 | Fax: (626) 585-1400