Laura Weitzman specializes in providing legal services and
consultation to mission-driven triple bottom line enterprises. Her
practice areas include employment, cooperative and nonprofit law,
start-up, financing, securities regulation, and business agreements.

Laura is the Associate Managing Attorney at K2 and a pro bono
Supervising Attorney at Berkeley Law’s New Business Counseling
Practicum, a clinical program that trains UC Berkeley law and
business students to promote small business success by providing
interdisciplinary support in business planning, entity formation,
capitalization, operational relationships, managing risks, and
permits and licenses.

Laura earned her J.D. from Berkeley Law (formerly Boalt Hall) where
she served as Counselor and Director of the Workers Rights Clinic,
interned for the International Human Rights Law Clinic, externed with
the Honorable Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California, and received a Written and Oral
Advocacy Award.  During her summers, Laura worked at Centro de los
Derechos del Migrante, the first transnational workers’ rights law
center based in Mexico, and Minami Tamaki, a civil rights law firm
based in San Francisco.

Laura has long been committed to building strong communities through
sustainable development.   As an undergraduate at Rutgers University,
Laura helped establish the University Committee for Sustainability, a
committee of staff, faculty and student representatives charged with
engaging the University Community, advising senior administration, and
reporting to the University President, on a wide array of
sustainability issues.  As a founding member of the Sustainability
Committee, Laura participated in a Labor Delegation to the border
region of Mexico where she witnessed simultaneously the devastating
social and environmental impacts of NAFTA and the entrepreneurial
initiatives taken by factory workers to create a sustainable local
economy. Inspired by her experiences, Laura wrote her Henry Rutgers
Scholar Thesis on “Using Public Space to Build Community,” for which
she received high honors.  Laura was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa
Society during her Junior year and graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Laura is an active member of the California Bar, and is licensed to
practice before all California courts including the U.S. District
Courts for the Northern District.

Laura is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French.