Paloma is General Counsel at WorkWhile. Previous to her role at WorkWhile, Paloma was Director and Associate General Counsel for employment at Brex Inc, a fully-remote fintech company reinventing the future of work by empowering the world's fastest-growing companies. She joined Brex from Haynes and Boone, where she counseled companies on labor and employment, including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour matters and compensation, and represented companies before the EEOC, NLRB, federal courts and state agencies. Paloma was previously was in-house counsel at Major League Baseball. Her role did not include setting the starting lineup of your favorite team, but did include labor relations, collective bargaining, regulatory compliance, international commercial issues and baseball development, and foreign government relations. Before going in-house at MLB, she was a litigator and white collar criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C. Paloma is proud to be an appointed member of the Texas Workforce Investment Council, and to have served as the Chair of the Bexar County Citizens Advisory Committee on Elected Official Salaries. Paloma cares about her family, free markets, free people, the Constitution, and baseball. She once ruined her favorite pair of boots door knocking in snowy New Hampshire for Bush-Cheney '04, and went to Harvard twice (AB/JD), and promises never to do it again. Paloma and her husband Moses have three children. When not lawyering and mom-ing, Paloma is a Peloton enthusiast, and loves to cook for her family and friends.
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