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FJWW Welcomes New Workplace Justice Fellow, Leticia Chavez

Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow LLP is proud to introduce its new Workplace Justice Fellow, Leticia Chavez!

Leticia Chavez is a Workplace Justice Fellow with the firm. During law school, Leticia served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Laurel Beeler of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She was also a law clerk at Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams and Leonard Carder. Additionally, she was an AFL-CIO Union Summer intern at Communication Workers of America. Prior to that she represented low-wage workers in wage and hour claims at the Women’s Employment Rights Clinic. Leticia was a member of the Golden Gate University Law Review, for which she served as Managing Editor.

Prior to law school, Leticia worked as a union organizer at SEIU Local 721, where she led new organizing campaigns and represented workers in grievance procedures and collective bargaining.

 

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FJWW Welcomes New Workplace Justice Fellow, Caitlin Kauffman

Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow LLP is proud to introduce its new Workplace Justice Fellow, Caitlin Kauffman!

Caitlin Kauffman is a Workplace Justice Fellow with the firm. During law school, Caitlin served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Jon S. Tigar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She was also an extern in Legal Aid at Work’s Gender Equity and LGBTQ+ Rights program. Prior to that she was a law clerk with Outten & Golden and Equal Rights Advocates where she assisted with discrimination and wage and hour litigation.

Prior to law school, Caitlin served as the Campus and Community Outreach Coordinator for Bay Area Women Against Rape. She is currently a volunteer member of Equal Rights Advocates’ pro bono network, End Sexual Violence in Education, where she advocates for students navigating their institutions’ Title IX process.

*Caitlin Kauffman is a provisionally licensed attorney through the State Bar of California’s Provisional Licensure Program. She is directly supervised by licensed attorneys at Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow.

 

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Dan Feinberg Quoted in Law360

Dan Feinberg was quoted in a Law360 article entitled “5 ERISA Cases To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2020.” A copy of the article can be found here. FJWW represents workers, retirees and unions in a wide range of ERISA litigation.

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Three firm lawyers to speak at Bridgeport Wage & Hour Litigation & Management

Catha Worthman will co-moderate today’s Bridgeport Wage & Hour Litigation & Management Conference in San Francisco.  Genevieve Casey will speak on exemption issues, and Darin Ranahan will speak on arbitration issues. We’re looking forward to joining the other panelists for lively and informative discussions about developments in this important area of law.

For more information: https://bridgeportce.com/bridge2017/live-events/2019-wage-hour-litigation-and-management-san-francisco

 

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Six Firm Lawyers Selected to the 2019 Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists

Six FJWW attorneys were selected to the 2019 Northern California Super Lawyers or Rising Stars lists. Dan Feinberg, Todd Jackson, Catha Worthman, and Nina Wasow were named to the Northern California Super Lawyers list. Darin Ranahan and Genevieve Casey were named to the Northern California Rising Stars list.

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews by practice areas. The list of Super Lawyers includes no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state. The Rising Stars list, a distinction for attorneys who are 40 or younger or who have been in practice for 10 years or less, includes no more than 2.5% of lawyers in the state.

The lists are published in Northern California Super Lawyers magazine, San Francisco magazine, Sacramento magazine, and online.

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