Pamela Y. Price

Member

Born:
Dayton, Ohio, September 24, 1956

Education:
University of Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa; Yale University, B.A., 1978; University of California at Berkeley, M.A., 1982, University of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1982

Practice Areas :
Civil Rights Law(85%); Commercial Litigation(10%); Legal Malpractice Defense(5%)

Membership:
Alameda County Bar Association; State Bar of California; Charles Houston Bar Association; National Lawyers Guild; California Association of Black Lawyers; San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association.

Admissions:
1983, California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1989, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1994, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 1994, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 2001, U.S. Supreme Court

Biography:

Ms. Price is respected nationally as a tenacious and principled advocate. In 1993, and again in 2001, she received the Charles Houston Bar Association's Clinton W. White Advocacy Award. She is one of the youngest recipients of that distinguished honor and one of only two people ever to receive it twice.

She received the 2002 CLAY Award for Employment Law from California Lawyer Magazine, March 2003. She also was honored in October 2003 by United States Congresswoman Barbara Lee with a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for her outstanding and invaluable service to the community. In 2004 and again in 2005, she was recognized as one of the top 50 women lawyers in Northern California.  Since 2004, she has been recognized as one of the top lawyers in Northern California.  For more information, go to www.superlawyers.com.

Born in Dayton, Ohio, Ms. Price earned her B.A. from Yale University in 1978.  She did her Junior Year Abroad and attended the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, East Africa.  She earned her M.A. and J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982.  While attending Boalt Hall, in 1980, she was a judicial extern to the Hon. Justice Frank C. Newman of the California Supreme Court.  She was a Visiting Professor at the New College of Law in the Fall of 1982.

She is admitted to practice in all California State courts, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Ms. Price is a member of the Charles Houston Bar Association and the California Association of Black Lawyers.  She serves on the Executive Boards of the San Francisco Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and the Friends Foundation.

Ms. Price is a contributing editor to the Rutter Group’s Employment Litigation Practices Guide.