Paola Eisner is an attorney at Tuttle Law Group (TLG), a San Francisco boutique law firm that specializes in co-op law. Paola is first-generation Argentinian American and provides legal services in English and Spanish. Paola is licensed to practice law in California.

Paola views cooperatives as critical infrastructure for economic democracy and believes that cooperative governance can transform our relationship with nature.

At TLG, Paola provides business law services to cooperatives, including entity design, services related to incorporation and conversions, and employment and nonprofit law. Paola has experience with worker co-ops, housing co-ops, agricultural co-ops including food hubs, and other kinds of co-ops. In addition to client work, Paola also enjoys working at the systems level, developing co-op legislation and policy. 

Paola’s collaborators describe Paola an innovative thought partner.

Paola serves on the Cooperative Professionals Guild’s Board and Cooperation Richmond’s Steering Committee.

Paola has extensive practical experience with cooperatives, having lived in housing cooperatives and intentional communities, volunteered at a bike co-op, and supported fish farm co-ops in the Peruvian Amazon.

Paola graduated from Harvard Law School (J.D.), Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A.), and Brown University (A.B.). Paola moonlights as a prolific multimedia artist. Before practicing as a co-op attorney, Paola worked in the environmental movement at the local, state, national, and international levels, and taught environmental law at Boston College. Paola has published an academic paper on reclaiming the commons.