Denise Okafor
Employment lawyer for workers
I only represent employees. Not companies, not managers, not HR.
I grew up in Homewood, the daughter of a hospital orderly and a bus driver, and I learned early what a lost paycheck does to a family.
I opened this practice to take the cases workers bring: the firing that came right after a complaint, the pregnancy that ended a job, the overtime that never showed up on a stub. I take every call myself, and I tell people plainly when I don't think they have a case.
Credentials
Admissions and education
Bar admissions
Pennsylvania
2012
Ohio
2016
Courts
U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
2013
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
2017
Education
J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law
2012
B.A., Temple University
2008
Languages
English
Spanish
Conversational
Memberships
National Employment Lawyers Association
Allegheny County Bar Association
How I work
Your case, in your words
Every case starts with you telling the story your way, start to finish. Then we put it in order: a timeline, the documents, the people who saw it.
You'll have my cell number. When the other side makes an offer, you hear it the same day, with what I think of it.
Denise Okafor
Employment lawyer
Tell me what happened
Call or write. You'll hear back from me, not an intake team.