She previously was an associate at Mehri & Skalet PLLC, where she worked on wage and hour, and employment discrimination cases, as well as consumer class actions and cases brought under the Fair Housing Act. Before coming to Mehri & Skalet, Karla worked at Disability Rights Advocates in Berkeley, Calif., where she brought class actions on behalf of blind computer users seeking equal access to websites and Los Angeles residents seeking inclusion of people with disabilities in the county’s emergency plans. Karla graduated with honors from Georgetown Law in 2007 and clerked for Judge Ronald Gould on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She received her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College with highest honors in 2002 with a major in linguistics and minor in psychology.