RACHEL DEUTSCH joined Strumwasser & Woocher in 2010 after clerking with the Honorable Marsha Berzon of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She previously summered at Grant & Eisenhofer, which specializes in financial law. Ms. Deutsch was a Peggy Browning Fund Fellow at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), assisting with developing and executing legislative and regulatory strategies. She previously led negotiations and developed workplace policies while at SEIU United Healthcare Workers -- West. Prior to that, Ms. Deutsch was an organizer/field representative with the AFSCME Local 3299. Ms. Deutsch has also developed and implemented job readiness for low income adults in a culinary arts training porgram offered at the Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation.

Ms. Deutsch graduated Phi Beta Kappa earning her B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University, where she participated as the political action director of the Yale Women's Center and founded the Coalition for Financial Aid Reform. Ms. Deutsch then received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law with honors. She authored The Federal Role in Reducing Hospital-Acquired Conditions, 42 Colum. J. L. & Soc. Probs. 1 (2008), as well as researching a variety of issues, mainly in labor law. She was editor of "Why the Local Still Matters," a forthcoming publication of Columbia Law School's National State Attorneys General Project and Yale Law School's Liman Public Interest Program.

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