Erin Pulaski joined SDSHHH in April of 2012. Her practice focuses predominantly on areas of employment and civil rights litigation. She specializes in matters involving wage and hour violations, wrongful terminations, employment discrimination and police misconduct.
Erin received her Juris Doctorate in 2009 from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Berkeley Law), where she was awarded Order of the Coif. Prior to joining SDSHHH, Erin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sidney R. Thomas of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also worked as an associate at the plaintiff-side labor and employment law firm Gilbert & Sackman. While a student at Berkeley Law, Erin served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Charles R. Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, clerked at the San Francisco public interest law firm Altshuler Berzon, and spent a summer working for a human rights organization in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Erin also served as a Teaching Assistant in two courses, Constitutional Law and Written and Oral Advocacy.
Prior to law school, Erin worked as a union representative for the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Local 3299 (California), and the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers’ Union (Sydney, Australia). She graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
