Amy S. Endo

Amy Endo represents public and private sector labor unions in all aspects of labor relations, including litigation in federal and state courts and administrative proceedings, as well as providing counsel and advice on collective bargaining and internal union governance. She also represents workers in individual and class action wage-and-hour litigation. In addition, Amy represents Taft Hartley benefit plans in litigation and arbitration matters. Her litigation experience includes arguments before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, and state courts, presentation of evidence in labor arbitrations and in hearings before the National Labor Relations Board and the Public Employment Relations Board, as well as drafting legal briefs and handling discovery. Amy also represents refugees seeking asylum in various immigration-related proceedings.

Prior to joining Leonard Carder, Amy served as a law clerk the Honorable David Alan Ezra of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the Honorable John E. Munter in the Complex Litigation Department of the San Francisco Superior Court.

Amy graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2010, where she served as a Senior Symposium Editor for the Hastings Law Journal and worked on wage-and-hour cases at the Hastings Civil Justice Clinic.  She was elected to the Thurston Honors Society and earned the CALI and Witkin Awards for Academic Excellence in Labor Law, Trial Advocacy, and Legal Research & Writing.  During law school, Ms. Endo externed for the Honorable Susan Illston of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the Office of Administrative Hearings in Oakland.  She also interned for the Legal Department of the ACLU of Northern California, where she worked on class action discrimination cases and received the ACLU’s Thomas Paine Award.