In this episode of Lawyers Who Care, host Andrew Samalin speaks with Pamela Price, attorney at law in Oakland, California. With over forty years of legal experience, Pamela serves small and medium-sized businesses in the Oakland and East Bay areas, bringing a career defined by courage, persistence, and a commitment to using the law as a tool to serve people.

Pamela shares how a juvenile arrest at a civil rights demonstration and a path through Yale College first shaped her relationship with the law — and how meeting movement lawyers showed her that legal practice could be a force for good. She recounts how a client she turned down three times kept returning to her office until she finally accepted his case, ultimately leading her to argue before the United States Supreme Court and win after nearly a decade of litigation.

She also reflects on what it meant to stand before the Supreme Court as a Black woman from a small Oakland firm, the challenges she faced even within the courthouse walls, and how being named California Lawyer of the Year followed one of the most extraordinary legal victories of her career.

Topics covered:

• A path to law through civil rights, Yale, and movement lawyering
• The client she turned down three times — and why she finally said yes
• Nearly ten years of litigation and arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court
• What it meant to be a Black woman arguing before the nation's highest court
• Being named California Lawyer of the Year in employment law
• Forty years of serving small and medium-sized businesses in Oakland
• Why courage and persistence are the foundation of legal excellence

Connect with Pamela Price: 

Website: pypesq.com 

Email: [email protected]