cprestel@publicjustice.net

Claire Prestel is a Staff Attorney with Public Justice in the national headquarters in Washington, D.C. Before joining Public Justice, Claire was an Assistant General Counsel for the Service Employees International Union and was associated with the labor and civil rights firm Altshuler Berzon LLP in San Francisco. Claire's work at SEIU included efforts related to nursing home reform legislation at the federal and state levels, as well as legal challenges to a $6.3 billion nursing home merger. Claire's work at Altshuler Berzon included litigation of civil rights, wage-and-hour, labor law, and constitutional claims on behalf of local and international unions and employee and consumer classes in federal and state court and before the National Labor Relations Board.   

Claire is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College. She clerked for the Honorable Betty Binns Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable A. Howard Matz in the Central District of California.

Claire will be a co-author of the Seventh Edition of Consumer Arbitration Agreements: Enforceability and Other Issues, and her article, “Proving Unconscionability: Recent Developments in California Law” was published in Forum, the magazine of the Consumer Attorneys of California. Claire has also spoken on the topics of corporate social responsibility and defeating mandatory arbitration clauses.