Andrea Matsuoka joined Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 2018. She represents mostly construction unions, and her practice includes wage and hour litigation, public contracting and prevailing wage cases, and state and local policy work.

Before joining the firm, Ms. Matsuoka was a lecturer at UCLA School of Law. As a faculty member of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law & Policy, Ms. Matsuoka taught a yearlong Lawyering Skills course, through which first-year public interest law students received the tools they need to be effective legal researchers, writers, and problem-solvers. She also co-taught Pretrial Civil Litigation.

Prior to her tenure at UCLA School of Law, Ms. Matsuoka was a generalist attorney with Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC). In this role, Ms. Matsuoka worked with low-income clients and communities to solve housing, income, employment, health, and education problems. At LSNC, Ms. Matsuoka co-authored an amicus curiae brief in Texas DHCA v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., in which she argued that the existence of implicit bias required the retention of the disparate impact standard in fair housing cases. Paraphrasing her argument, the United States Supreme Court for the first time recognized the existence of implicit bias and its effect on decision-making. In addition, as part of LSNC's Race Equity Project, Ms. Matsuoka trained legal services advocates and community allies to recognize the roles race, racialized structures, and bias play in clients' everyday lives and in advocacy efforts.  

Prior to her work at LSNC, Ms. Matsuoka clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

Ms. Matsuoka earned her juris doctor from UCLA School of Law, where she specialized in Public Interest Law & Policy, served as Articles Editor of the UCLA Law Review, and earned entry into the Order of the Coif for academic excellence.

Before law school, Ms. Matsuoka worked in Washington, D.C., where she served as a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow, a health research assistant for a U.S. senator, a legislative assistant for a U.S. representative, and as a community organizer working with foster youth to improve the D.C. foster care system.