Teresa Renaker
Teresa Renaker joined the firm as an associate attorney in 1997 and became a shareholder in 2003. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Renaker served as a law clerk to the Honorable Irma E. Gonzalez of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Ms. Renaker serves as the Chair-Elect of the Employee Benefits Committee of the ABA’s Torts, Trial, and Insurance Practice Section, and she sits on the ABA’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits.
Ms. Renaker is a frequent speaker on ERISA issues, including preemption, class actions, and subrogation issues. She has spoken at the American Bar Association’s ERISA Basics and ERISA Litigation conferences, at the midwinter meeting of the Employee Benefits Committee of the ABA’s Labor and Employment Section, the ABA Annual Meeting, the Glasser LegalWorks ERISA Litigation conference, and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Lien Seminar.
Ms. Renaker is the co-author, with Cassie Springer-Sullivan, of the Employee Benefits chapter of California Domestic Partnerships, published by Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB). She is also a chapter author of Dividing Pensions and Other Employee Benefits in California Divorces from CEB.
Ms. Renaker is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and of the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where she served as Senior Executive Editor of the California Law Review and published a Comment, Evidentiary Legerdemain: Deciding When Daubert Applies to Social Science Evidence, 84 Cal. L. Rev. 1657 (1996).