Eve H. Cervantez

ecervantez@altshulerberzon.com

Eve H. Cervantez is a partner at Altshuler Berzon LLP. She is a graduate of Washington University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She served as a law clerk to Judge Charles A. Legge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She was formerly a staff attorney at the Prison Law Office, working to assure humane conditions of confinement for state prison inmates, and a partner at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, where she represented plaintiffs in class action employment and consumer lawsuits. She is a chapter contributor to Employment Discrimination Law (BNA, 2002 Cumulative Supplement and BNA, First and Second Supplements and 2008 Supplement, to Fourth Edition), Wage and Hour Laws, A State-by-State Survey (BNA, 2006 Supplement) and The Fair Labor Standards Act (BNA, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Supplements), and is the author of "When Should You Bring State Law Wage and Hour Claims in Addition to, or Instead of, FLSA Claims," The Employee Advocate (Summer/Fall 2003) and co-author of "Avoiding Procedural Pitfalls," The Employee Advocate (Summer 2008). She also lectures regularly on developments in wage and hour, employment discrimination, and class action law.