Natalie Nardecchia joined Hadsell & Stormer as an associate in May of 2007. Her practice focuses on employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, wage and hour class action litigation, education law, breach of contract, and other civil rights cases. Ms. Nardecchia has advocated for clients at all stages of litigation, including arguing at the appellate level, serving as co-counsel on a jury trial (and successfully obtaining a new trial based on jury misconduct), helping successfully settle a variety of cases, and disposing of a lawsuit 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 worked as co-counsel with Hadsell & Stormer on a federal bench trial.

While attending law school at the University of California, Berkeley, Ms. Nardecchia completed internships at the East Bay Community Law Center, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the ACLU of Northern California. She also worked one summer at an international law firm in Seattle.

Ms. Nardecchia graduated from Berkeley in 2006. She obtained her undergraduate degree in English in 2003 from Rice University, where she played NCAA Division I soccer.

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 has volunteered as a professor of law at People’s College of Law.