Jahan Sagafi
JAHAN C. SAGAFI is the partner-in-charge of the firm’s San Francisco office, where he represents workers in employment class actions challenging discrimination, wage and hour abuses, Fair Credit Reporting Act violations, and other types of exploitation. He has won a jury trial for a nationwide class of approximately 1,000 technical support workers, an en banc appeal in the Ninth Circuit, and many settlements to recover backpay for overtime compensation, meal and rest breaks, vacation benefits, discriminatory pay and promotion gaps, and more.
Mr. Sagafi has represented a wide array of workers throughout the country, including HVAC service technicians, corporate instructors, financial advisers and trainees, security officers temp staffing workers, cashiers, call center customer service representatives, counselors, drivers, and many others.
During his career, he has recovered well over $100 million for workers, asserting claims against transportation companies (e.g., Uber, Lyft, Hertz, GlobalTranz), tech companies (e.g., AT&T, IBM, Computer Sciences Corp.), banks (e.g., Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney), retailers (e.g., Walmart, Target, Abercrombie & Fitch, Guess?, Raley’s) healthcare companies (e.g., Permanente, Premera Blue Cross), an accounting firm (PwC), insurance companies (e.g., Travelers, Farmers), restaurants, and more.
In addition to his trial court work, Mr. Sagafi represents plaintiffs in appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit, and other courts, addressing issues such as workers’ rights, arbitration agreements, class certification, standing, unfair and deceptive practices under California’s Unfair Competition Law, and FDA preemption. He has also volunteered to write amicus briefs in the Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- California
- State Bar of California
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- English
- Harvard Law School
- J.D.
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- 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers
- Lawdragon
- Top Labor & Employment Lawyers 2016-2018
- Daily Journal, Northern California
- Super Lawyer’s Top Lists, Top 100 (2015-2018)
- Super Lawyer
- Northern California Super Lawyers 2014-2018
- Super Lawyer
- Daily Journal, Northern California
- Leading Labor & Employment Attorney
- State Bar of California
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Member
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- Section of Labor and Employment Law of the American Bar Association
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- National Employment Law Association
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- American Association for Justice
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- Consumer Attorneys of CA
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- Bar Association of San Francisco
- Judicial Evaluations Committee
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- Bar Association of San Francisco
- Volunteer Attorney, Fee Dispute Arbitrator
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- Alliance for Justice
- Board of Directors
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- American Constitution Society
- Member, Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Advisory Board
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- Public Advocates Inc.
- Board of Governors
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- American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
- Chair of the Legal Committee
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- American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
- Vice Chair of the Board
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- American Constitution Society
- Chair of the Executive Board of the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter
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- American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
- Executive Committee
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- American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
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- Class-action settlements in an ever-more-crowded field
- Plaintiff Magazine
- Survey of State, Class Action Law 2015-16: A Report of the State Laws Subcommittee of the Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee of the American Bar Association
- Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Assoc. v. U.S. Department of Labor, No. 13-35765 (9th Cir. Feb. 23, 2016); Joseph Cesarz et al. v. Wynn Las Vegas LLC et al., No. 14-15243 (9th Cir. Feb. 23, 2016) (consolidated opinion)
- O&G Employment Law Blog
- Spotting FLSA & California overtime exemption violations
- Plaintiff Magazine
- Survey of the State, Class Action Law – 2014-15; A Report of the State Laws Subcommittee of the Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee
- American Bar Association, Section of Litigation
