Lizette Rodriguez
Lizette is an advocate at heart and is ardently committed to advocating for employees’ rights. She feels a duty to vulnerable and often neglected workers, and her early work in the service of others awakened a passion to be a voice for the underserved.
During law school, Lizette was a legal clerk with Kids In Need of Defense and Pepperdine’s Legal Aid Clinic at Union Rescue Mission. Her legal clerking gave her first-hand knowledge of how much advocacy can make a difference in someone’s life. She also went to serve as the President of Advocates for Youth, Vice President of the National Latino Lawyers Student Association, and Vice President of Advocates for Public Interest Law.
Her passion and profession have been and continue to be to advocate for those she serves.
- Received Juris Doctor from Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
- Received Bachelor of Arts in Government from Cornell University
- The State Bar of California
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States District Court for the Central District of California
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Judicial Extern to the Honorable André Birotte Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Lizette Rodriguez, Stop Punishing Our Kids: How Title VII Can Protect Children of Color in Public School’s Discipline Practices, 39 J. Nat’l Ass’n Admin. L. Judiciary 19 (2020)
- Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/naalj/vol39/iss2/2
- $3,740,000 settlement in a wage and hour class action
- $1,650,000 settlement in a wage and hour class action