Alina Pastor-Chermak is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP, based in San Francisco, and a member of the firm’s Class Action Practice Group.
She has experience in classwide, organizational, and individual representation in the fields of employment, immigration, and environmental law. Before joining the firm in 2024, Ms. Pastor-Chermak served as the Altshuler Berzon LLP-Natural Resources Defense Council Joint Fellow. During her fellowship, Ms. Pastor-Chermak represented a putative class of female employees suing a large corporate employer for failure to prevent and remediate sexual harassment. She also represented environmental organizations advocating for sustainable water use in the San Francisco Bay Delta, as well as individual employees who had been misclassified as independent contractors and wrongfully denied workplace protections under California law.
Prior to this, she worked as a Cross-Border Advocacy Fellow at Immigrant Defenders Law Center, where she represented individual migrants seeking humanitarian parole and employment authorization in the United States. She simultaneously worked with a team of litigators to challenge the Trump Administration’s Remain in Mexico policy. Ms. Pastor-Chermak also clerked for the Honorable Judge Susan R. Bolton of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Ms. Pastor-Chermak earned her B.A. from New York University in 2016, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2020, which she attended on a merit scholarship. During law school, she served as the Articles Editor for Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and won an outstanding student advocate award for representing indigent survivors of domestic abuse in Georgetown Law’s Domestic Violence Clinic. She also conducted research for Legal Momentum on the constitutionality of redrafting the Violence Against Women Act. She interned for the Honorable Judge William Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California as well as the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project’s Impact Litigation Unit.
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