Noël Harlow, Esq.

Employment Law Attorney

Noël Harlow is an attorney and educator with 17 years of experience across employment law, civil rights, disability rights, elder law, and gender-based violence work. That breadth is rare, and it shows in how she practices: she sees the whole person behind every case, not just the legal claim, and she brings the same steadiness to a wage dispute that she brought to some of the most difficult advocacy work the law has to offer.

Background and Experience

Before joining Labor Law PC, Noël built a career that moved between courtrooms, classrooms, and communities. On the employment side, she worked on national class action wage and hour cases, the kind of large-scale litigation where meticulous work determines whether thousands of workers recover what they are owed.

She has also taught the next generation of lawyers, serving on the faculty at Campbell University School of Law, where she taught Intersectional Feminist Jurisprudence. Her public-sector and consulting work includes serving as a consultant for Southern Indian Health Council, Inc. and managing several multi-disciplinary programs for the County of San Diego.

Some of her most formative work came from five years at the Center for Community Solutions, where she served as Staff Attorney and then Director of Legal and Advocacy Services. There she represented survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, acted as lead counsel, and served on city and county teams supporting victims of domestic violence, elder abuse, and sexual assault. Her advocacy has reached beyond the United States as well: she served internationally as a gender-based violence specialist and legal services counselor for Burundian and Congolese refugees living in refugee camps in Tanzania.

Practice Focus at Labor Law PC

At Labor Law PC, Noël puts that experience to work exclusively for California employees. Her background in national wage and hour class actions pairs naturally with the firm’s core practice areas, and her years representing survivors give her particular depth in cases involving sexual harassment, workplace harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. Her disability rights and elder law experience also informs the firm’s work on disability and leave rights.

Her Approach

Lawyers who have sat with survivors in their hardest moments learn things that cannot be taught any other way: how to listen without judgment, how to explain a daunting process in plain language, and how to carry the weight of a case so the client does not have to. Noël brings all of that to her employment practice. Clients working with her can expect patience, clear step-by-step guidance, and an advocate who treats their dignity as the point of the case, not a side effect of it.

Outside the Office

Outside of work, Noël enjoys spending time with her husband and their two children, ages nine and thirteen. She is an avid hiker, runner, and reader, and she loves finding new restaurants around Southern California.

Talk to Our Team

If your employer has crossed a line, you do not have to sort it out alone. Meet the rest of our team, then call (877) 775-2267 or request your free case evaluation. No fees until we win. Hablamos Español.