A partner at the firm Blank Rome in Los Angeles, Natalie Alameddine ‘13 traces her success as an attorney specializing in employment and labor law to her time as a law student at UC Hastings.
Alameddine said she wanted to give back to her alma mater. On top of being co-chair of the West Los Angeles Alumni Chapter, she also joined the UC Hastings Alumni Association Board of Governors this year.
“I owe Hastings my career,” Alameddine said. “I figured this would be an additional way to stay involved and give back.”
The Board of Governors serves as a liaison between alumni and the college. The board provides valuable input on alumni volunteer activities, chapter and affinity group programming, and helps support department initiatives.
During her 1L year in law school, Alameddine took an employment discrimination elective that she said sparked her interest in employment and labor law. She later enrolled in the Employment Law Clinic, which she said strengthened her passion for the field. Alameddine served as senior notes editor of the Hastings Business Law Journal and volunteered as a mediator for the San Francisco Superior Court through the Mediation Clinic at UC Hastings.
While in law school, she served as a judicial extern for Judge Bobbi Tillmon of the Los Angeles County Superior Court and as a clinic counselor and legal advocate at Legal Aid At Work, formerly known as the Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center.
After graduation, she interned with an administrative law...
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