About Tara
Tara Herlitz began her legal training at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she earned a B.A. in 2002. She went on to Golden Gate University School of Law and received her J.D. in 2006. Those years framed her interest in regulatory and public policy matters and set the stage for a practice that crosses state and federal lines.
Her early career took shape as she moved into courtroom and regulatory work. She holds admissions in multiple jurisdictions, including California, Indiana and Hawaii, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, the U.S. District Court of Hawaii and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. That mix of state and federal authorizations has allowed her to take on matters that touch both local rules and broader federal standards.
Herlitz has worked in private practice as an associate at Beck Rocker, LLC. In that role she has assisted on matters that involve statutory interpretation, administrative procedure and the interplay between state policies and federal law. Her work has required coordinating filings in different courts and responding to evolving regulatory frameworks.
Policy work sits alongside her litigation responsibilities. She has been involved in organized efforts in Hawaii around drug policy and cannabis regulation. She serves on Focus Area Group 3 of the State of Hawaii Opioid Use Initiative and is a founding member of the Lawyer General Alliance Cannabis Project, where she sits on the advisory council. She also previously served as co-chair of the Marijuana Working Group at the State of Hawaii Department of the Lawyer General. Those roles have put her in contact with public agencies, health professionals and other attorneys working on statutory drafting and administrative guidance.
Professional memberships are an active part of her career. She is a member of the State Bar of California, the Hawaii State Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association. Those memberships reflect the geographic breadth of her admissions and make it easier to coordinate multi-jurisdictional matters for clients and collaborators.
Colleagues describe her as methodical and attentive to procedural detail. Her practice blends research and advocacy, and she spends significant time on briefing, regulatory comment and administrative matters. She has experience handling filings in both state and federal courts and advising on compliance questions that arise as government policy shifts.
Herlitz maintains her practice at Beck Rocker, LLC, where she continues to work on litigation and regulatory matters across the jurisdictions in which she is admitted. Her current practice focuses on litigation and regulatory work involving state and federal procedural issues.
