Betsy Havens

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Betsy Havens

Executive Director

Phone: 424-209-2884

Toll Free: 800-870-9886

I have learned so much working with clients and leading trainings. I am proud to use that experience to protect workers' rights.

Strong Advocates Executive Director, Betsy Havens, has years of litigation experience. Betsy has achieved outstanding results for her clients through both litigation and negotiation. She has helped her clients achieve life-changing monetary awards, while helping them to transform their lives by holding their employers and perpetrators accountable. Through legal action, Betsy helps her clients heal in ways that therapy cannot. By helping to lead individual and systemic litigation in California and Florida, she has helped thousands of clients who have been discriminated against to win their cases and restore their rights. Additionally, she has led over 50 trainings for lawyers and community groups. Betsy has been honored to receive an Advocacy award from a state Bar Foundation for the work her office has done fighting discrimination.

Betsy received her law degree from the University of Miami, her master’s degree from the University of North Carolina, and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. After law school, Betsy received the prestigious Equal Justice Rights fellowship to fight discrimination and launched her legal career pursuing justice for those treated unfairly.

Betsy is a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association and the Consumer Attorney Association of Los Angeles. She is proud to only represent plaintiffs.

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Best lawyer you could ask for really dedicated to her job!

Meztli H.

1/30/2020

Strong Advocates truly takes an interest in their clients. Betsy Havens and her staff are knowledgeable and professional. Betsy made me feel heard. She is very thorough, detail oriented and determined. If you want a firm that personally cares about YOU, I recommend Strong Advocates for all your employment legal needs. Choose Betsy Havens because she is very compassionate and passionate about winning your case. She follows through and produces amazing compensation results, quickly.

Rebecca A.

8/25/2018

I HONESTLY WAS AT LOST ABOUT MY CASE OR IF I EVEN HAD A CASE. BUT COMING TO STRONG ADVOCATES WAS A GOOD THING FOR ME THEY HELPED ME OUT SO MUCH IN UNDERSTANDING THE PAPER WORK PROCESS, WHICH THEY DID EVERYTHING. THEY ARE AMAZING VERY PROFESSIONAL. I ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND THEM.

JESSICA S.

8/24/2018

I had such a great experience working with Strong Advocates. Betsy Havens, the attorney who represented me, was so kind and compassionate while handling my case. She helped me understand all of my options and gave me advice whenever I needed it. She was very patient and explained everything in a way that was easy to understand. She went above and beyond to help me during a tough time in my life, and I am so thankful for that!

Matthew L.

6/29/2018

My experience with Betsy Havens was beyond pleasant. She is highly talented and compassionate towards others. She never gave up on me. Betsy changed my life for the better, and I would recommend her to anyone and everyone.

Adriana G.

6/22/2018

After interviewed many attorneys for my national origin discrimination case, I finally and very luckily found this law firm. Unlike cases such as traffic accident or not paying overtime, etc., national origin discrimination case is typically very difficult. Many attorneys shy away my case, though evidence solid, and from their responses I could see their incompetence. Coming from immigration lawyer background, this law firm has great enthusiasm to help new immigrant and very adequately represented me to seek for best compensation. As a professional myself, I could tell this law firm is very high quality and detailed oriented in its documentation preparation and communication with Court and Respondent party. I don't think I could have found better law firm than this one. I read some review online regarding their high fee before hired them. Yes, their fee is higher than others and that is the high quality you would receive. I would highly recommend this law firm.

Ccc L.

6/21/2018

I was pleased with Strong Advocates legal services and all my concerns were addressed in a timely manner. Throughout the process, Betsy Havens was very understanding and compassionate, and made the difficult circumstances I was dealing with a bit easier to cope with. She defended me. I am very grateful for her service and hereby recommend Ms. Havens without reservation.

Diana C.

3/30/2018

Betsy Havens and the team at Strong Advocates are the nicest and most professional lawyers I have ever dealt with. They truly cared about my case and put in hours above and beyond what was called for. She kept me in the loop on all the legal proceedings and took the time explain to me in clear terms what this process was going to look like. During my demur the Judge even commented at one point saying "Never before has someone come so well prepared for a demur, I can see that you care a lot about your client." Betsy Havens is the first call I make for legal advice!

frank

3/14/2017