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Gabriella Kamran

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310-981-2062 | gkamran@lcwlegal.com

Gabriella Kamran is an Associate in the Los Angeles office of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore. Gabriella specializes in all employment and labor law matters pertaining to public agency and private education clientele. She also has experience in Title IX matters.

Gabriella originally joined LCW as a Summer Law Clerk where she worked with hand in hand with a multitude of our Public Agency and Private Education clients. Prior to joining LCW, Gabriella clerked for an administrative law judge in the EEOC Hearings Unit and interned for the American Association of University Women (AAUW).  She also worked as the Title IX Director in UCLA’s undergraduate student government. In these roles, Gabriella supported in adjudicating employment discrimination cases filed against federal agencies, researched complex discrimination issues, and drafted verdicts on motions for summary judgment in sexual harassment cases.

Gabriella obtained her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law with a special concentration in Critical Race Studies. During her time there, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Journal of Gender & Law. Gabriella has been published in the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, and she has articles forthcoming in Florida A&M Law Review and Mississippi College Law Review about employment discrimination law and Title IX, respectively. Gabriella received a Bachelor of Arts in Gender Studies and Communication from UCLA.

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BA, University of California, Los Angeles

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Gabriella’s poetry career peaked at age 17 when she won a national youth poetry award.

Police Lieutenant v. City (2023) – Convinced PERB’s General Counsel to dismiss an Unfair Practice Charge that a police lieutenant filed against the police chief on the grounds that PERB lacks jurisdiction over individual peace officers.

The DOE’s New Title IX Regulations: A Summary of the Key Provisions
04/23/2024
LCW Special Bulletin

On April 19, 2024, after a lengthy notice and comment period that produced over 240,000 public comments, the U.S. Department of Education released the final regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.  Effective on August 1, 2024, the new regulations will replace the...

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When Politics and Employment Mix: What Speech is Protected at Work
04/09/2024
The Recorder

Recently featured in The Recorder, LCW Senior Counsel David Urban and Attorney Gabriella Kamran authored an article which explores employee rights concerning political activity. They emphasize, “California is one of several states with laws that restrict private employers from interfering in...

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Following in California’s Footsteps
03/07/2024
Inside Higher Ed

Recently featured in Inside Higher Ed, LCW Partner Michael Blacher and Attorney Gabriella Kamran delve into California’s race-neutral admissions policies, offering insights for diversity objectives. They emphasize, “California’s experiments with race-neutral diversity measures—and courts’...

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Universities’ Competing Free Speech Obligations Need Untangling
02/27/2024
Bloomberg Law

Recently published in Bloomberg Law, LCW Senior Counsel David A. Urban and Attorney Gabriella Kamran examine laws on free speech and harassment that universities must consider. In their analysis, Urban and Kamran discuss the complexities surrounding public and private educational...

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Public Protests and Harassment Law in 2024
01/25/2024
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog

In a much-publicized congressional hearing on December 5, 2023, the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania faced pointed questions by the House Education and Workforce Committee regarding antisemitism on college campuses. Several exchanges—and public debate...

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Hiring Minors 101
05/02/2023
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog

The weather is getting warmer and the sun is getting brighter, and you know what that means–employers everywhere are calling their lawyers to ask how they can put teenagers on payroll this summer! Many employers that operate summer programming seek to hire minors as recreational leaders, day camp...

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July 24, 2024
CCD Effective Compliance with the New Title IX Regulations and Overlapping California Law
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