Joan Fife Featured as Cover Story in Northern California Super Lawyer’s 2021 Issue

Northern California Super Lawyers recently interviewed Winston & Strawn San Francisco Office Managing Partner Joan Fife about her storied composure and successful track record in the court. Joan heads the firm’s San Francisco labor and employment group where she represents employers in class action employment litigation, and has had lead responsibility for over 75 class or collective actions.

“I want to be the most reasonable person in the courtroom,” she said during the interview. “If a judge needs a fair and accurate answer to a question, I want him to look at me.”

Joan was featured alongside Jahan Sagafi, a likeminded lawyer who has twice faced off against her. He recalls that “Joan was pleasant and decent and calm and respectful and respectable, ” in the courtroom. “She has a Southern gentility.”

Todd Jackson, a partner at Feinberg Jackson Worthman & Wasow who represents plaintiffs in employment cases, also shared praise for Fife, stating “[she] gets to the heart of the legal issue very quickly. She understands talking to a judge is a conversation, rather than a speech. She recognizes that, in the real world, the impact comes from stating complicated things in a simple way.”

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