[3][failed verification] Pitts served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2008 to 2009.

He was a partner at Altshuler Berzon LLP in San Francisco, California, where he worked from 2009 to 2023.

The case involved the Education Code and the collective bargaining agreement between the district and its teachers, which generally requires that when the district reduces its teaching force for budgetary reasons, lay-offs must be based on seniority.

In the summer of 2009, the district faced a budget shortfall and implemented a reduction in force (RIF) and laid-off temporary and probationary teachers.

Allegations included the picketing involved carrying placards, distributing leaflets, and attempting to engage Foods Co shoppers in conversations to inform them that Foods Co workers did not receive the benefits they would under a union contract.

The unions negotiated collective bargaining agreements ("CBAs") with the plaintiffs' public employers.

President Biden nominated Pitts to the seat vacated by Judge Lucy Koh, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on December 15, 2021.

[13] On January 3, 2023, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate.