Tamara S. Freeze

Tamara S. Freeze is a founding shareholder of Workplace Justice Advocates, Professional Law Corporation, where she exclusively represents employees in cases of whistleblower retaliation, discrimination, harassment, disability accommodation, unpaid wages, employment litigation and appeals.

After earning her undergraduate degree from UCLA, Ms. Freeze attended University of California Berkeley School of Law, where she focused mainly on employment law and litigation, and worked as a summer associate at Skadden Arps Slate Meager & Flom, LLP. After graduation, Ms. Freeze worked for a prominent employment defense law firms Littler Mendelson, P.C. and Bryan Cave, LLP. In 2009, Ms. Freeze opened her own practice, focusing exclusively on employee rights.

In 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2024, the Daily Journal named Ms. Freeze to its list of the top 75 Labor and Employment Attorneys, a rare honor reserved for only most exceptional employment lawyers in California. Ms. Freeze has also been recognized as the Rising Star by California Super Lawyers Magazine every year since 2012, an honor reserved for no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state. Ms. Freeze has been featured in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, on radio stations and various media. In addition Ms. Freeze was recently named as one of the Top 50 Up-and-Coming Women Lawyers in Southern California and Top 100 Up-and-Coming Southern California Lawyers by Super Lawyers Magazine.

In her very first jury trial, Tamara obtained a $1,377,000.00 discrimination verdict on behalf of her client, Huron Mayo, in a complex disability discrimination, retaliation and CFRA case - prevailing on all five (5) causes of action against defendant Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles.

In June 2015, Tamara tried another employment discrimination case on behalf of a disabled school custodian and was able to obtain a $550,000.00 jury verdict for her client. The award was one of the largest discrimination verdicts in San Bernardino County for 2015.

In April 2017, Tamara obtained a historic $25.1M Whistleblower Jury Verdict on behalf of her client, Steven Babyak, who was unlawfully terminated after he came forward to upper management with complaints of illegal kickbacks and FDA policy violations. The unanimous verdict is believed to be one of the largest single-plaintiff whistleblower awards in California legal history. She became a 2017 CAALA Trial Attorney of the Year Finalist for her trial work on this case.

In November 2023, Tamara and her co-counsel obtained a $112,000 Equal Pay Act verdict on behalf of a female database administrator who was paid less than her male colleagues. Tamara was able to prove that her female client did substantially similar work as compared to other computer engineers. Tamara spent five years fighting for justice, mastering highly complex computer science terms in the process. Tamara and her co-counsel were awarded more than $1 million in attorney's fees and expenses for their work on the case.

In March 2024, Tamara obtained another whistleblower retaliation verdict in the amount of $800,000 on behalf of her client, a school safety officer, who was wrongfully fired by Redlands Unified School District. The jury was unanimous. The court awarded Workplace Justice Advocates almost $1 million In attorney's fees and costs.

In November 2024, Tamara obtained another whistleblower retaliation verdict in the amount of $2,248,290 on behalf of her client, a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), who was wrongfully fired by a Chinese corporation. This case was hard fought and defendant was represented by a large well-known Los Angeles "Big Law" firm. The jury awarded the CFO his full damages for his breach of contract claim, as well as compensatory and punitive damages.

Ms. Freeze has a purple belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu and enjoys a good chess game.