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Todd Jackson to Speak at NELA Annual Convention on July 3, 2022

Todd Jackson will join co-panelists, Valerie Brender, Cornelia Dai and Beth Terrell at NELA Annual Convention. The panel, “I Object: Objections in Wage and Hour Class Action Settlement” will take place on July 3, 2022, from 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM. To register or for more information is available here.

 

 

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FJWW Welcomes New Summer Law Clerk, Max Segal

Max joins the Firm as a Summer Associate. He is a rising 3L at Berkeley Law, where he is the Symposium Editor for the California Law Review and the Student Notes Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. During law school, Max worked for the California Department of Justice’s Worker Rights and Fair Labor Section and spent the previous summer as an extern for The Honorable Terrence Berg in the Eastern District of Michigan.

 

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FJWW Welcomes New Workplace Justice Fellow, Anne Weis

Anne returns to FJWW as a Workplace Justice Fellow, after previously spending her 2L summer with us as a Peggy Browning Fund Fellow. Anne is a graduate of UC Berkeley Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the California Law Review and participated in the Death Penalty Clinic and Domestic Violence Law Practicum. During law school, Anne also worked as a law clerk at Bay Area Legal Aid and Equal Rights Advocates.

After graduating from Berkeley in 2020, Anne clerked for the Honorable Sarah A. L. Merriam in the District of Connecticut. She is happy to be back in the Bay Area and at FJWW!

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FJWW Welcomes New Workplace Justice Fellow, Galen Yun

 

Galen is a Workplace Justice Fellow with the Firm and recent graduate from UC Davis School of Law. During law school, Galen served as a head steward for UAW 2865, where he represented student-employees in grievance proceedings and helped secure an over $80,000 settlement from the law school because of the school’s refusal to pay its Legal Research and Writing Program teaching assistants for the work they performed. He was also a policy intern for California Employment Lawyers’ Association and Consumer Reports. Prior to that, he represented low wage workers at the Workers Rights’ Clinic. Additionally, he was a summer law clerk at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, where he investigated prosecutorial misconduct.

Before law school, Galen had the privilege of working with Jeff Adachi while he interned in the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. He also professionally poured perfect beers, worked as a paraprofessional for the San Francisco Unified School District, and coached wrestling at June Jordan School for Equity.

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FJWW Welcomes Social and Economic Justice Legal Assistant, Gloria Choi

Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow LLP is proud to introduce its new Social and Economic Justice Legal Assistant, Gloria Choi!

Gloria is a recent graduate of Scripps College, where she majored in Cognitive Science with a concentration in Computer Science. She is from Southern California and is looking forward to working as a legal assistant with Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman, and Wasow.

 

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Interview with Nina Wasow

FJWW partner Nina Wasow was interviewed by Andy Chu, founder of Nimsa, an organization devoted to helping people take time off work to work on their mental health. Ms. Wasow is an advisor for Nimsa and the interview discusses the process of getting disability benefits. You can listen to the interview here.

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