Rebecca Harteker

Rebecca built her career on the side of workers from the very start. Before joining Frontier Law Center, she trained at some of the most respected names in plaintiff-side and public-interest law. She clerked at Lawyers for Justice, interned with the Worker Rights Consortium in Washington, spent a summer at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, and served as a legal intern with the Federal Public Defender. Each of those roles pointed in the same direction: toward the people with the least power and the most at stake.

That focus fits naturally with the work she does now. Class actions and PAGA claims, which let employees enforce California labor law on behalf of themselves and the state, are how systemic violations get answered, the kind that affect not one worker but an entire workforce. Rebecca handles cases involving unpaid wages, missed meal and rest breaks, and the policies that quietly shortchange employees across a company, building each claim into a case that holds employers accountable at scale.