Education

University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., summa cum laude, 2016) 

UCLA School of Law (J.D., Public Interest Law and Policy, 2019)

Experience

Mitzi Marquez-Avila is a partner and shareholder at Gilbert & Sackman. Mitzi focuses her practice on representing labor unions and workers in traditional labor and employment law matters through advocacy in labor arbitrations, administrative hearings, and litigation in state and federal courts.

Mitzi graduated from UCLA, magna cum laude, with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Chicana/o Studies, and a minor in Labor & Workplace Studies. She received her law degree from UCLA School of Law, where she completed the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. During law school, she served as Comments Editor of the UCLA Law Review, Staff Editor of the Chicanx-Latinx Law Review, Community Service Chair of the La Raza Law Students Association, and judicial extern to the Honorable Fernando M. Olguin, a federal district court judge in the Central District of California.

From 2022 through 2026, Mitzi has consistently been selected as a “Super Lawyer-Rising Star.” She is a contributing chapter editor to the treatise titled, “Labor Union Law and Regulation,” published by the American Bar Association & Bloomberg Law.

Mitzi is a proud SoCal native, child of working-class immigrants, and fluent in Spanish.

Memberships

• California State Bar

• AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance

• Southern California Labor and Employment Relations Association

• American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section

• California Lawyers Association, Labor and Employment Law Section

• Los Angeles County Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section

• Latina Lawyers Bar Association

• Mexican American Bar Association

Presentations

 “Wage and Hour Fundamentals,” 15th Annual Section of Labor and Employment Law Conference, American Bar Association, panelist (virtual, November 10, 2021)

“Bargaining Through the Pandemic,” SoCal LERA Inaugural Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference, panelist (virtual, July 29, 2021)

Publications

Mitzi Marquez-Avila, No More Hieleras: Doe v. Kelly’s Fight for Constitutional Rights at the Border, 66 UCLA L. Rev.(2019)

UCLA Labor Center & Center for Law and Social Policy, “Juggling Time: Young Workers and Scheduling Practices in the Los Angeles County Service Sector” (2016)