Joan Fife
Partner
San Francisco Office Managing Partner
Joan is the managing partner of Winston’s San Francisco office, heads the firm’s San Francisco Labor & Employment Practice, and represents employers throughout the country in class action employment litigation. Clients praise her “very good courtroom demeanor” and describe her as “one of the best attorneys for wage and hour class actions” that is “great at strategy and thinking about the best way to handle things” and knows “when it’s appropriate to be aggressive.”
Recent Experience
Prevailed on Demurrer and Opposition to Motion for Leave to Amend in Wage and Hour/PAGA Class Action
Signed Arbitration Agreements with Class Action Waivers Pushes Wage and Hour Case to Early Mediation