M. Lorena González is a Shareholder at Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, where she focuses her practice on representing individuals victimized by people in authority positions—employers not giving workers the pay and benefits owed to them, police officers abusing their powers, and sexual aggressors preying on those unable to defend themselves. Lorena, who is fluent in Spanish, was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 2005 and has litigated numerous cases in state and federal court. The daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico, Lorena is a native Washingtonian who grew up in the lower Yakima Valley where she and her family worked as migrant farm workers. She is the first and only attorney in her family.