Teresa Renaker
Teresa Renaker joined the firm as an associate attorney in 1997 and became a shareholder in 2003. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Renaker served as a law clerk to the Honorable Irma E. Gonzalez of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Ms. Renaker formerly served as the Chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the ABA’s Tort, Trial, and Insurance Practice Section, and sits on the ABA’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits.
Ms. Renaker has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer in the Employee Benefits/ERISA category every year since 2007, as well as one of The Top 50 Women lawyers in Northern California every year since 2008.
Ms. Renaker is a frequent speaker on ERISA issues, including preemption, class actions, and subrogation issues. She has spoken at the American Bar Association’s ERISA Basics and ERISA Litigation conferences, at the midwinter meeting of the Employee Benefits Committee of the ABA’s Labor and Employment Section, the ABA Annual Meeting, the Glasser LegalWorks ERISA Litigation conference, and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Lien Seminar.
Ms. Renaker authors the “Employee Benefits” chapter of California Domestic Partnerships (CEB 2005 and annual updates) and the “Employee Welfare and Other Nonpension Benefits“ chapter of Dividing Pensions and Other Employee Benefits in California Divorces (CEB 2006 and annual updates).
Ms. Renaker is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and of the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where she served as Senior Executive Editor of the California Law Review and published a Comment, “Evidentiary Legerdemain: Deciding When Daubert Applies to Social Science Evidence,” 84 Cal. L. Rev. 1657 (1996).