Jahan C. Sagafi Esq.
Work in Outten & Golden LLP
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
Employment, Class Actions, Wage & Hour, Discrimination
One California Street, 12th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111
About Jahan C. Sagafi Esq.
Practice Areas
- Employment
- Class Actions
- Wage & Hour
- Discrimination
Education
- Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001J.D.
- Law Review: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Senior Editor, 1999 - 2001
- Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994B.A.
- Honors: magna cum laude
Languages
- English (Primary)
Classes and Seminars
- Speaker: "An Uncertain Future: The 21st Century Workforce in California", Bloomberg Law San Francisco Leadership Exchange, - 2017
- Speaker: "Pay Audits, Pay Transparency, and the Public Disclosure of Pay Data", American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law, National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, - 2017
- Speaker: "Procedural Barriers to Discrimination Cases", UC Hastings Law Journal Spring Symposium, The Status of Antidiscrimination Law and Litigation in the United States, - 2016
- Speaker: "Brainstorming Best Practices in Pay Equity", American Bar Association, Section of Labor & Employment, National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, - 2016
- Speaker: "Trends in Class Action Employment Litigation", Practising Law Institute, Cutting-Edge Employment Law Issues 2016: The California Difference, - 2016
- Speaker: "The Use of Experts in Title VII Cases", ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, 8th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference, - 2014
- Speaker: "Key Wage and Hour Developments", Practising Law Institute, - 2014
- Speaker: "Analyzing Damages in Wage and Hour Cases", American Association for Justice, Employment Rights Section and Wage & Hour Litigation Group, - 2014
- Panelist: "Use and Admissibility of Electronically Stored Information", ABA Section of Labor & Employment, Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference, - 2017
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- California, 2003
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 2003
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court Central District of California, 2003
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 2006
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2010
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
Other Affiliations
- Alliance for Justice (Board Member)
- American Constitution Society (ACS) Bay Area chapter (Member, Board of Advisors)
- American Constitution Society (ACS) Bay Area chapter, 2009 - 2011 (Chair of the Executive Board)
- Public Advocates Inc., 2012 - 2015 (Board of Governors)
- Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) (Member, Judicial Evaluations Committee)
- Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) (Volunteer Attorney, Fee Disputes Arbitrator)
- ACLU of Northern California, 2010 - 2011 (Vice Chair of the Board)
- ACLU of Northern California, 2010 - 2011 (Chair of the Legal Committee)
- State Bar of California, Litigation Section (Executive Committee Member)
- ABA Labor & Employment Law Section (Member)
- National Employment Lawyers Association (Member)
- American Association for Justice (Member)
- Consumer Attorneys of CA (Member)
Past Positions
- Judge William W Schwarzer, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Law Clerk, 2001 - 2002
Articles
Published Works
- Co-Author with Richard B. Rosenthal, "Ten things every trial lawyer must know about appeals: A primer for success in California's appellate courts," Plaintiff, December 2011
- Survey of the State, Class Action Law – 2014-15; A Report of the State Laws Subcommittee of the Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee, American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, 2014
- Class Actions: A Path Through The Darkness, Plaintiff Magazine, 2014
- Sagafi Considers Limited Scope Of Integrity Staffing, Questions Likelihood Of Collective Bargaining For Private Sector Workers, Bloomberg BNA, 2014
- Survey of State, Class Action Law 2015-16: A Report of the State Laws Subcommittee of the Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee of the American Bar Association, 2015
- Spotting FLSA & California overtime exemption violations, Plaintiff Magazine, 2016
- Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Assoc. v. U.S. Department of Labor, No. 13-35765 (9th Cir. Feb. 23, 2016); Joseph Cesarz et al. v. Wynn Las Vegas LLC et al., No. 14-15243 (9th Cir. Feb. 23, 2016) (consolidated opinion), O&G Employment Law Blog, 2016
- Class-Action Settlements In An Ever-More-Crowded Field, Plaintiff Magazine, 2017
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