Joan Fife Speaks at JAMS’ “Resolving Wage & Hour Mass Actions” CLE Program

Winston & Strawn San Francisco office managing partner Joan Fife spoke at JAMS’ CLE program “Resolving Wage & Hour Mass Actions” on May 28, 2014, in San Francisco. The program explored ways to efficiently resolve non-class mass actions. Specific topics included:

• Developments in class certification of mass wage & hour claims
• Increasing focus on PAGA penalties, which may be immune to restrictions on class actions
• Uptick in individual wage & hour arbitrations given the enforceability of class-action waivers
• Sample models to efficiently achieve settlement

Ms. Fife is the head of the firm’s San Francisco labor and employment group. She represents employers throughout the country in class action employment litigation and was named in 2009 and 2010 as one of the Daily Journal’s “Top Women Litigators in California,” and in 2010-2012 as one of the “Top Labor and Employment Lawyers” by the San Francisco Daily Journal.