OUR ATTORNEYS
Jeremy Pasternak, Esq.
Anthony Oceguera, Esq.
JEREMY PASTERNAK
Jeremy Pasternak has represented individuals and small businesses in employment and other civil rights matters since 1995. Prior to graduating from the Santa Clara University School of Law in 1995, where he was awarded a Public Interest Scholarship and was a member of the the Law Review, Mr. Pasternak worked both with Rudy, Exelrod & Zieff and the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco/Employment Law Center. Both firms specialize in the representation of individuals in employment disputes.
Thereafter, Mr. Pasternak was with O’Donnell & Mandel in Santa Monica and then the Law Offices of David H. Greenburg in Beverly Hills. There he tried a number of cases to verdict, including Lee v. ENPC, in which he obtained a verdict of $1.4 million – including a punitive-damages award of over $1 million – for his client, a terminated CEO. From 2001 through 2004, Mr. Pasternak was the senior employment-law associate at the Dolan Law Firm in San Francisco. He was then Of Counsel with Cooper & Mora before he opened his own firm in 2005.
Since 2005, Mr. Pasternak has been the principal in the Law Offices of Jeremy Pasternak, where he continues to represent individuals and small businesses in employment and other civil-rights matters. Mr. Pasternak is currently class counsel for the plaintiffs in the case of Carlson v. eHarmony.com, which addresses eHarmony.com’s exclusion of gay and lesbian customers from the website. He is also counsel for plaintiff in the proposed class action of Fairbanks v. New Vine, which addresses that Company’s alleged failure to pay wages to dozens of laid-off employees.
Mr. Pasternak was named by California Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top employment attorneys in California for both 2008 and 2009. Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
To see Mr. Pasternak’s full CV, please click here (PDF document)
Email: jdp@pasternaklaw.com
ANTHONY OCEGUERA
Anthony Oceguera is an associate attorney with the Law Offices of Jeremy Pasternak.
Mr. Oceguera graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 2008. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California in San Diego, where he graduated magna cum laude and majored in History and Political Science. While in law school, Mr. Oceguera worked as clerk for ACCESS, the Self-Help Center for the San Francisco Superior Court, and as a law clerk with the Law Offices of Jeremy Pasternak. In law school, Mr. Oceguera was a recipient of the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Disability Law and in Remedies.
Mr. Oceguera’s practice is focused on employment litigation, representing individual claimants. He also represents individuals in unemployment benefits appeals hearings, wage claims, and other administrative proceedings.
Email: ao@pasternaklaw.com
