Mike Rachmann

What makes Mike’s perspective uncommon is where he’s been. Before joining Frontier Law Center, he spent nearly a decade as corporate and in-house counsel, advising businesses on the very obligations that employment law is built to enforce. He knows how companies think about risk, how they weigh a claim, and where they cut corners, because for years his job was to see it all from the inside. He now brings that knowledge to the other side of the table, on behalf of the workers.

That vantage point is especially valuable in the work he does. Class actions and PAGA claims, which allow employees to enforce California labor law on behalf of themselves and the state, often turn on patterns that a company would rather keep quiet: systemic wage violations, missed meal and rest breaks, and policies that shortchange entire workforces. Mike knows how those patterns form and how employers defend them, which sharpens how he builds a case to take them apart.