Pamela M. Newport

Pamela focuses her practice on union-side labor law, a decision that sprang from a deep-seated commitment to social justice for working people after growing up in a union household. She views her current role within the broader goals of her clients, and assists with union organizing campaigns, collective bargaining, grievance and arbitration handling and related litigation, steward and member education, and internal investigations and compliance for labor organizations. She also practices plaintiff-side employment discrimination law, and has assisted workers in obtaining favorable severance agreements. In addition to her broad experience in labor and employment law, she is passionate about immigrant rights and has assisted immigrant workers throughout her career.

At the University of Cincinnati, Pamela received her B.A. with honors and went on to become one of the first students in the Law and Women’s Studies joint degree program at U.C. While pursuing her M.A. and J.D., she was named an Arthur Russell Morgan fellow to the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, and focused her work and externship experiences, as well as her M.A. paper, on global sex worker organizing. During law school, Pamela clerked at the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, and the United Steelworkers legal department.

In addition to her work for HSGLaW, Pamela has taught adjunct courses, including Labor Law, at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She is a contributing editor to the treatise Developing Labor Law, holds leadership positions with the American Bar Association Employment Rights and Responsibilities Committee, and is regularly asked to speak before colleagues and clients on a wide array of labor law topics.

Pamela enjoys traveling as much as she can with her husband (sometimes her two children tag along), listening to podcasts and reading books about true crime and the death care industry (and pretty much anything a bit macabre), and singing with her family band (she vows to one day relearn the fiddle to pay proper homage to her Appalachian roots).