Pamela Vallero
Attorney
Pamela Vallero, the 2024 Consumer Attorneys of San Diego Trial Lawyer of the Year, has dedicated her career to advocating for the rights of underrepresented individuals who form the backbone of the workforce.
Since the beginning of her legal career, she has obtained top verdicts for her clients. Below are some of her top verdicts:
TOP VERDICTS IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS
2019 – Disability Discrimination – $1,107,855 (Top 40 Civil Rights Verdict in California; Top 50 Labor & Employment Verdicts in California; Top 100 Labor & Employment Verdicts in the United States)
2022 – Whistleblower Retaliation – $3,893,490 (Top 50 Labor & Employment Verdicts in California; Top 100 Verdicts in California
2022 – Disability Discrimination – $1,850,000 (Top 50 Labor & Employment Verdicts in California)
2023 – Gender Discrimination – $1,375,000 (No. 1 Verdict for Gender Discrimination in San Diego County; Top 50 Labor & Employment Verdicts in California; Top 100 Labor & Employment Verdicts in the United States)
2023 – Medical Battery, Lack of Informed Consent – $800,000 (No. 1 Verdict for Lack of Informed Consent and Medical Battery in San Diego County)
2024 – Solicitation of Employee by Misrepresentation, Labor Trafficking $20,938,666,67
In 2022, Pam was recognized as the sole recipient of the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego’s Rising Star Award and one of the recipients of the Outstanding Trial Lawyer in 2023, Pam has dedicated her career to fighting for the underdog. Since 2022, Pam has consistently been selected as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star,” which is given to the top 2.5 percent of lawyers in the industry under the age of 40. In 2023, Pam was also recognized as one of San Diego’s Women of Influence in the Law.
Pam loves to be in the courtroom. However, she continues to work tirelessly outside the courtroom securing seven-and-six-figure settlements for her clients.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Pam grew up in Medellin, Colombia. She arrived in the United States in her teens where she lived with her parents and two sisters. She faced first-hand the many socio-economic discrepancies, social injustice, and discrimination that people of color often experience. As a result, Pam vowed to fight against such inequalities. Pam is a firm believer that every victim has a story that deserves to be told and heard. Pam
believes that through her work as an advocate for workers, she is able to continue combating the inequalities faced by her community.
EDUCATION
Thomas Jefferson School of Law, 2015
Georgia Southern University, 2007
ADMISSIONS
State of California
U.S. District Court of California