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THERESA M. TRABER - FOUNDING PARTNER Founding partner Theresa M. Traber received her Juris Doctor degree from Northeastern University Law School in 1984. Since becoming a member of the bar in December, 1984, she has concentrated her efforts, first as a partner at Litt & Stormer and then with Traber & Voorhees, primarily on individual and class action lawsuits alleging employment and housing discrimination under federal and state law. In addition, she has handled cases alleging assorted violations of constitutional rights, including police abuse and misconduct by U.S. military installations and other federal entities, and other public interest cases, such as actions brought by poor tenants for damages and injunctive relief to remedy the slum conditions of their apartment buildings. More recently, Ms. Traber has concentrated on bringing class action cases seeking overtime wages for low-wage and middle-income workers and on international human rights litigation. For the last several years, Ms. Traber has been recognized as one of Southern California’s Super Lawyers and one of the top 50 female lawyers in Southern California by Los Angeles Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine. In 2001, the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation honored Ms. Traber and her co-counsel as finalists for Public Interest Trial Lawyers of the Year for their work in Doe v. Radovan Karadzic, which resulted in a verdict of more than $4.5 billion for 21 Muslim families whose members were murdered, tortured, raped and otherwise brutalized as a part of the Serbian “ethnic cleansing” campaign in Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
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BERT VOORHEES - FOUNDING PARTNER Founding partner Bert Voorhees graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA Law School in 1988. In early 1989, Mr. Voorhees started as an attorney with Litt & Stormer and worked on a wide spectrum of federal and state court civil rights cases until the firm’s dissolution in August, 1991. These cases included police abuse matters, state fair housing cases, employment discrimination cases, and other public interest matters involving civil and constitutional rights. Since the inception of Traber & Voorhees, Mr. Voorhees has handled significant, complex class action and impact civil rights litigation. In 1997, Mr. Voorhees was honored by the Pasadena Chapter of the NAACP and Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich for representing the local chapter of the NAACP in opposing various provisions of a Pasadena gang injunction. In 2007, Mr. Voorhees was awarded the President's Award by the Pasadena Chapter of the NAACP for his community involvement and his years of service to the NAACP. In 2007, Mr. Voorhees was also honored by the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance for sucessfully prosecuting and settling a large wage and hour and discrimination class action on behalf of virtually all of the Latino and Korean American workers employed by the largest supermarket in Koreatown. |
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LABONI HOQ - ASSOCIATE Associate Laboni Hoq, who joined Traber & Voorhees in February 2007, graduated from Columbia Law School in 2001 and subsequently clerked for Justice Kate O’Regan of the South African Constitutional Court. After her clerkship, Ms. Hoq was a Fulbright Scholar with the University of Witwatersrand Law Faculty in Johannesburg, South Africa where she researched and performed comparative analysis of aboriginal land rights in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining Traber & Voorhees, Ms. Hoq joined the Los Angeles office of Sidley Austin, where she was involved in litigating complex federal and state cases on behalf of national and international clients. Since joining Traber & Voorhees, Ms. Hoq's practice has focused on individual employment discrimination cases, as well as state and nationwide class actions involving violations of wage and hour laws and consumer protection laws. She has practiced in both state and federal court, and has represented clients at all stages of litigation and in arbitration. Ms. Hoq was listed in Southern California Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars edition, in 2008. |
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MARONEL BARAJAS - ASSOCIATE Associate Maronel Barajas, who joined Traber & Voorhees in October 2008, graduated from Columbia Law School in 2003, where she was involved with both Columbia’s Tenants Rights Project and the Unemployment Action Committee. In 2005, Ms. Barajas joined the Disability Rights Legal Center, where she eventually became the Director of its Education Advocacy Project, litigating and supervising litigation which sought to extend and enforce the educational rights of students with disabilities. In this role, Ms. Barajas also engaged in legislative advocacy and trained others in litigating and advocating on behalf of such students. In addition to her work at the Center, Ms. Barajas was a part-time faculty member at Loyola Marymount University, where she taught a Special Education Law course. Since joining Traber & Voorhees, Ms. Barajas has handled employment discrimination cases and wage and hour class actions and educational rights cases. |
Traber & Voorhees | 128 N. Fair Oaks Ave. , 204 Pasadena, CA 91103 | Phone: (626) 585-9611 | Fax: (626) 577-7079