Alaina Gilchrist

Alaina Gilchrist joined the firm in 2025. She currently litigates no-poach antitrust cases where she is able to build upon over ten years of experience advocating for workers’ rights. She takes a thoughtful and creative approach in pursuing justice to achieve favorable results for her clients.  

Alaina is a former associate at a large plaintiff-side law firm where she litigated securities and consumer protection class actions. Prior to that, she practiced union-side labor law both in-house and at a union-side law firm. While practicing labor law, she represented clients at labor arbitrations, negotiated collective bargaining agreements, represented unions in front of the National Labor Relations Board, and wrote motions in limine for a California wage and hour class action lawsuit that settled for $140 million.  

Alaina was a Peggy Browning Fellow at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. and at a union-side law firm in Los Angeles. She was also a former judicial extern for the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While in law school, she was note editor of the Northeastern University Law Review.  

Alaina is a former union representative and organizer for the Service Employees International Union. Prior to that, she was a fellow and community organizer for a community organizing project in Ohio.