Lindsay Nako
Lindsay Nako joined the firm as an associate in 2005 and became a shareholder in 2012. In 2009, 2010, and 2011, she was selected as a “Northern California Rising Star” by Law & Politics magazine.
Ms. Nako represents and advises individual clients in disability and pension claims. She also has served, or is serving, as class counsel in several class actions in the employee benefits and employment discrimination fields, including cases brought on behalf of pension plan participants and beneficiaries arising from imprudent investment of plan assets; employees and job applicants in cases alleging employment discrimination based on race, nationality, and gender; and employees who have suffered vacation pay forfeitures in vacation benefit plans sponsored by Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association (VEBA) trusts.
Ms. Nako is a frequent speaker in these areas of practice. In recent years, she has spoken at the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section Annual Conference, the annual Midwinter Meeting of the ABA Labor and Employment Section, Employee Benefits Committee, and the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) Annual Conference. In addition, she is the Plaintiffs’ Co-Chair of the ABA Labor & Employment Law, Employee Benefits Committee, Reporting & Disclosure Subcommittee, and a Rewrite and Contributing Author to Sacher et al., Employee Benefits Law (BNA Books). Ms. Nako also is an active volunteer with the Legal Aid Society, Employment Law Center Workers’ Rights Clinic.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Nako served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Claudia Wilken of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and as a law clerk with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the San Francisco non-profit law firm Equal Rights Advocates.
Ms. Nako is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). She received her undergraduate degree, Phi Beta Kappa and with highest honors, from the University of California, Berkeley.