Most attorneys enter practice having read about how courts work. Noam Glick spent a year inside one. His federal clerkship with the Honorable Gary Klausner of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California is one of the more consequential credentials in his background — not for its prestige alone, but for the specific knowledge it produced. Courts evaluate arguments differently than lawyers do. A year observing that evaluation up close changes how you build a case.
A Path That Did Not Begin in Law
Noam Glick arrived at law through a longer route than most. His undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, combined economics and environmental studies — a pairing oriented toward understanding how institutions allocate resources and who bears the costs when they fail. That interest continued into graduate school. He earned a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, then applied that training as an environmental policy consultant in Washington D.C.
Consultancy work gave Noam Glick a working understanding of regulatory systems and the interests that shape them. What it did not provide was the ability to intervene directly on behalf of the individuals those systems affected. That limitation pushed him toward law. He enrolled at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he graduated cum laude in the top 10% of his class on a full-ride scholarship and served as an editor of the Loyola Law Review — an academic record that positioned him for the competitive clerkship process.
Inside the Federal Court
A clerkship with a U.S. District Court judge places a young attorney at the center of federal civil litigation. The work is analytical and demanding. Clerks review briefs, research legal questions, draft orders, and observe proceedings — all within the context of a judge responsible for applying federal law to real disputes. The experience is unlike anything available in a law school classroom or a first-year associate position.
For Noam Glick, the clerkship with Judge Klausner was a year spent learning how federal courts assess the merits of civil claims. He watched arguments succeed and fail. He observed how evidentiary records were read, how procedural choices affected outcomes, and how the framing of a legal question shaped the court’s analysis. Those observations did not produce abstract insights — they produced specific, durable knowledge about what it takes to prevail in federal litigation.
That knowledge influences how Glick Law Group approaches cases. Building a compelling evidentiary record, anticipating procedural challenges, framing claims in terms that align with how courts actually analyze them — these are skills developed through proximity to the process, not just through practice. The clerkship is where that proximity began.
Defense Work and Its Lessons
After his clerkship, Noam Glick joined the defense side of employment law, working at some of the most prominent law firms in the country. Representing large employers in employment disputes requires understanding the full architecture of those disputes — how documentation is built, how HR investigations are structured, how settlement decisions are made, and how defense teams present their cases to courts and juries.
Noam Glick built fluency in all of it. He understood the logic behind the records employers produce and the strategic choices embedded in how those records are assembled. Over time, that understanding clarified something essential: employees entering these disputes are typically navigating a process that was designed, at every stage, by and for the organizations they are challenging. The informational and strategic advantages available to well-resourced employers are significant. Closing that gap on the plaintiff side requires an attorney who has seen how those advantages are assembled.
By 2014, Noam Glick had decided the most productive application of his training was in plaintiff-side litigation. He founded Glick Law Group that year.
Glick Law Group: Built for Employees
Glick Law Group is based in Los Angeles and represents employees exclusively. The firm’s practice covers employment law, worker’s rights, consumer protection, and environmental protection — areas that share a common structural feature: individuals navigating disputes against institutions that hold more resources, more institutional knowledge, and more litigation experience.
The decision to represent employees only was deliberate. A firm that works both sides of employment disputes cannot bring the same focused expertise to each. Glick Law Group’s singular alignment means the firm’s accumulated knowledge — drawn from defense-side experience, federal court observation, and plaintiff-side litigation — flows entirely in one direction. Every case benefits from that focus.
The breadth of practice areas also reflects an understanding of how legal problems present themselves in the real world. Employment violations rarely exist in isolation. A worker who has been retaliated against for raising safety concerns may have overlapping claims under employment law and environmental protection statutes. A consumer fraud matter may intersect with worker misclassification. Noam Glick’s training across policy, regulatory systems, and litigation equips the firm to identify and address those intersections.
What Preparation Looks Like
Noam Glick‘s career is best understood as a sequence of deliberate preparation. The economics and environmental studies background developed analytical discipline. The public policy degree extended that into institutional analysis. The Loyola Law Review editorship refined legal writing. The federal clerkship taught him how courts think. The defense-side work taught him how employers fight.
Each stage contributed something the next stage required. The result is a litigation practice grounded in credentials and experience that extend well beyond the standard employment attorney biography. For workers who need representation against employers with significant institutional resources, that preparation is not incidental — it is the practice.
About Noam Glick
Noam Glick is the founder of Glick Law Group, an employment law firm in Los Angeles that exclusively represents employees. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Michigan. He graduated cum laude from Loyola Law School, where he served as an editor of the Loyola Law Review, and completed a federal clerkship with the Honorable Gary Klausner, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Prior to founding Glick Law Group in 2014, Noam Glick worked as a defense-side employment attorney at prominent national law firms. His areas of practice include employment law, worker’s rights, consumer protection, and environmental protection.