Natalie Nardecchia joined Hadsell & Stormer as an associate in May of 2007. She represents clients in cases involving employment discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, and retaliation; wage and hour law; education law; constitutional law; and other civil rights cases. Ms. Nardecchia has successfully advocated for clients at every stage of litigation, including prevailing at the appellate level, serving as co-counsel in an employment trial (and successfully obtaining a new trial based on jury misconduct), helping settle a variety of noteworthy cases, and disposing of a SLAPP against a client by arguing a special motion to strike.
Before joining Hadsell & Stormer, Ms. Nardecchia was a legal fellow at the ACLU of Southern California, where she advocated for the rights of students to a safe and equal learning environment. She also served as co-counsel with Dan Stormer on a federal bench trial on behalf of a high school student and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network.
Ms. Nardecchia earned a J.D. from UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 2006. While attending law school, she completed internships at the East Bay Community Law Center, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the ACLU of Northern California. She also volunteered at California Indian Legal Services and the Law Student Outreach Clinic, and spent one summer at a law firm in Seattle, focusing on federal Indian law.
Ms. Nardecchia obtained her undergraduate degree in English from Rice University in 2003, where she played NCAA Division I soccer and truly enjoyed living in her home state of Texas.
Ms. Nardecchia chairs the Amicus Committee of the Lesbian & Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (LGLA). She regularly volunteers at a legal aid clinic in Los Angeles and volunteers as a professor of law at People’s College of Law.
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