Profile:

Pamela spent her Fellowship with NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, where she served as co-counsel in Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytechnic/U.S. v. Morrison, one of the first cases filed under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) civil rights provision. Pamela  also played a significant role in the drafting and legal analysis of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act/Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act, which proposes an increase in federal protection for hate crimes and adds coverage for gender, sexual orientation and disability. She has worked on domestic violence and welfare policies and reproductive rights issues.

Pamela writes and speaks on a range of civil rights and women’s rights issues, and has published articles in law reviews and practitioner journals, as well as guest lectured to law students and undergraduates. She is a contributing author to a treatise on employment discrimination.

Pamela  served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Edward R. Korman, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. She is a 1994 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where she worked on The Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. In 1990, she graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with an A.B. with honors in political science. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the State of New York, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Pamela is currently Of Counsel to Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, where she concentrates on plaintiffs' employment discrimination class action cases. She has significant knowledge and experience regarding statistical evidence and the use of experts in class litigation. She is also well-versed in class action legal issues. She is presently also a Ph.D. student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pamela was certified as a Class Counsel in Ingram v. The Coca-Cola Company, a class action case on behalf of 2200 African-American salaried employees at Coca-Cola, alleging race discrimination with respect to policies and practices regarding evaluation, compensation and promotion systems. The Coca-Cola settlement, approved by the Court on June 7, 2001, represents the largest race discrimination settlement to date at $192.5 million. The settlement also includes historic programmatic changes. Pamela was nominated as a finalist for "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice for her work on the Coca-Cola case.