Frontier Law Center is built on a simple conviction: every worker deserves the same quality of legal representation — regardless of how powerful their employer is.
A Decade of Fighting for California Workers.
Skilled Lawyers. Solution-Oriented Thinkers. Passionate Advocates.
Frontier Law Center is a California employment law firm entirely dedicated to representing employees. We never represent employers — every case we take is on behalf of someone whose workplace rights were violated. That focus isn’t a business decision. It’s a conviction that has guided the firm since its earliest days.
We combine deep litigation experience with a relentlessly solutions-first mindset. Our team includes seasoned trial attorneys, dedicated case managers, onboarding specialists, and AI-augmented systems — all working toward the same outcome: the best possible result for each client we serve.
California has some of the strongest worker protections in the world. We make sure our clients can actually use them.
”With human ingenuity augmented by AI, we take on the most complex challenges and deliver unparalleled service — innovation you can trust.
Frontier Law Center
100
M+
Recovered
10,000
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Workers Helped
10
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Years in Practice
The Frontier Story
Frontier Law Center began with a simple idea: a law firm should constantly evolve—both in how it practices law and in how it uses technology to serve its clients.Â
2016
Frontier Is Founded
Frontier Law Center was founded and operated as a partnership between Manny Starr and Robert Starr.Â
From the beginning, the firm was built around staying at the forefront of California employment law while embracing technology, systems, and new ways of practicing that could make the firm more effective.Â
Origin
2020-2021
Bigger Cases. Bigger Impact.
Frontier increasingly took on complex employment and class actions involving hundreds or thousands of workers.Â
Major results during this period included multi-million-dollar settlements in wage-and-hour and employment cases, establishing Frontier as a firm capable of taking on much larger opponents.Â
Growth
2022
A New Technology Era
The emergence of generative AI created an entirely new opportunity for Frontier.Â
The firm began exploring how AI could help analyze evidence, organize discovery, evaluate claims, and prepare cases—allowing attorneys to spend more time on strategy, advocacy, and judgment.Â
Leadership
2023-2024
Becoming AI-Native
Frontier began incorporating AI throughout its workflows and rethinking how a modern law firm should operate.Â
The goal was not simply to add new technology to an old model.Â
It was to build a firm designed around the best capabilities of both lawyers and technology.Â
Innovation
Early 2025
Manny Takes the Helm
After years of building Frontier alongside Robert and learning both the practice and business of law, Manny Starr assumed sole leadership of the firm.Â
It marked the beginning of Frontier’s next chapter and an opportunity to accelerate the vision that had existed from the beginning:Â
Build the law firm of the future.Â
Frontier secured major results for California workers, including multi-million-dollar class and PAGA settlements and a significant trial victory against Los Angeles County.
The firm’s approach to technology also received national recognition when Frontier became a 2025 Legalweek finalist for Best Use of Artificial Intelligence.
Recognition
2026-Today
A Growing Firm
Frontier expanded into a larger Woodland Hills office as its team and caseload continued to grow.
The firm has now helped more than 10,000 workers and achieved more than $100 million in recoveries across its cases.
Frontier continues to evolve around the principles that have guided the firm from the beginning:Â
Stay ahead of the law. Embrace better technology. Build better systems. Fight relentlessly for workers.Â
The firm has changed considerably since 2016.Â
The objective has not.Â
Keep pushing the practice of employment law forward.Â
The AI-Native Law Firm
Frontier leads the legal industry in implementing AI — not as a novelty, but as a genuine strategic advantage for clients. Routine tasks are automated. Complex judgment stays human.
Our AI systems handle document triage, intake analysis, research synthesis, and deadline tracking. That frees our legal team to do what no algorithm can: craft strategy, build trust with clients, and win in court.
At the center of this is Trailmate — our proprietary AI agent, purpose-built for employment law practice and embedded throughout our case pipeline.
Meet Our AI
Trailmate
AI AGENT — FRONTIER LAW CENTER
Trailmate operates throughout Frontier’s case pipeline — accelerating analysis, surfacing patterns, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks so our human team can consistently deliver at their best.
- Analyzes intake submissions in real time
- Real-time case updates, anytime
- Easy document gathering – send us when convenient for you.
- Real-time case updates
1
Kirsten Starr
Controller
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Nicole Clancy
Senior Litigation Attorney
3
Mike Rachmann
Litigation Attorney
4
Robert Starr
Attorney, Founding Partner
5
Francine Barlavi
Client Onboarding Team
6
Danny Barlavi
Client Onboarding Team Lead
7
Kaylie Urango
Pre-Litigation Support Specialist
8
Amber Shelgren
Case Evaluation Assistant
9
Taylor McCarthy
Litigation Support Specialist
10
Gabriela Dominguez
Litigation Support Specialist
11
Cynthia Rodriguez
Case Manager
12
Collette Navasartian
Paralegal
13
Rebecca Harteker
Litigation Attorney
14
Manny Starr
Attorney, Managing Partner
15
Colin Rickard
Director of Growth & Operations
16
Mark Tieman
Attorney, Managing Partner
A Team Built Around One Purpose
From seasoned litigators to our onboarding and case management teams, every person at Frontier is here because they believe in fighting for workers. We hire for conviction and train for excellence — because our clients deserve both.
The Results Speak for Themselves
100
M+
Recovered for Clients
10,000
+
Workers Helped
10
+
Years in Practice
