Legal Services & Lawyers

R.C. Lim works as a lawyer in the areas of estate planning, asset protection planning, and bankruptcy in Pasadena, California.

R.C. is also an avid student of the financial markets. He is currently a CFA level 2 candidate and occasionally contributes to the Motley Fool, an online investment news site, where he makes his semi-pro picks known to the world.

R.C. Lim graduated from the USC Gould School of Law in 2004 in the top 15% of his class. While in law school, R.C. paid his tuition as a graduate assistant in the Philosophy Department and externed for Judge Robert H. Henry, Chief Judge for the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Prior to entering law, R.C. worked as a math teacher at Mission and Lowell High Schools in the San Francisco Unified School District.

The lucky beneficiary of entirely too much education, R.C. also counts himself a graduate of New York University, where he studied history and math at the Courant Institute, and of Columbia University, where he studied science.

When not working, R.C. can be found wasting his time on the soccer field, sniffing out the perfect tomato at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market, or spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah Raff.

Tamara S. Freeze is highly experienced in labor and employment matters as well as general civil litigation, including contract disputes, intellectual property, and sports and entertainment law. Before opening her own practice, she worked for several big law firms in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Orange County. Ms. Freeze is comfortable litigating cases and representing clients throughout California.

Ms. Freeze has substantial experience representing clients in discrimination and harassment disputes, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, and for unpaid compensation and benefits. Ms. Freeze frequently advises employees on the hiring and termination, the enforcement of company policies and practices, labor-management relations, wage and hour compliance, alternative dispute resolution, international employment law issues, trade secrets, severance negotiations and class action strategy. She has experience vigorously defending employee rights, educating drafting employment and settlement agreements, independently supervising cases, calculating settlement ranges and managing litigation.

As part of her practice, Ms. Freeze represents employees in state and federal courts throughout California, as well as in administrative proceedings, such as EEOC or DFEH. She is familiar with human resources procedures, business programs for employee recruitment, processing, orientation, performance evaluation systems, and employee counseling.

Tamara Freeze's Specialties:
Employment and Labor law: discrimination and harassment, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, severance packages, unpaid compensation and benefits, wrongful termination, layoff practices, wage and hour compliance, alternative dispute resolution, international employment law issues, and class action strategy.