Nantiya Ruan - Employment Law Attorney | Outten & Golden LLP (New York, NY)

NANTIYA RUAN is Of Counsel at Outten & Golden LLP. She represents employees in employment discrimination and wage and hour class actions, and individuals in other matters. Ms. Ruan works from her office in Denver, Colorado, where she is a Lawyering Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. From 2003 to 2004, Ms. Ruan was an associate at Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian in Oakland, California, representing workers in national class action litigations. Ms. Ruan has also represented children in custody disputes and indigent clients in criminal court.

Before joining O&G in 2000, Ms. Ruan was a judicial clerk for Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also clerked in the state appellate courts. Ms. Ruan received her B.A. from Villanova University in 1993, and her M.S.W. and J.D. from the University of Denver in 1999. She is admitted to practice in Colorado, New York, and California.

NANTIYA RUAN is Of Counsel at Outten & Golden LLP, New York, NY. She represents employees in employment discrimination and wage and hour class actions, and individuals in other employment matters. Ms. Ruan works from her office in Denver, Colorado, where she is a Lawyering Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

From 2003 to 2004, Ms. Ruan was an associate at Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian in Oakland, California, a plaintiffs' firm representing workers in national class action litigations.

Prior to joining O&G in 2000, Ms. Ruan was a judicial clerk for Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She has also clerked in the state appellate courts. Ms. Ruan has represented children in custody disputes, indigent clients in criminal court, and, as a social worker, counseled homeless, pregnant teens and drug-addicted mothers.

Ms. Ruan received her B.A. from Villanova University in 1993 and her M.S.W. and J.D. from the University of Denver in 1999.

Ms. Ruan is admitted to practice in Colorado, New York, and California.

Speaking Engagements

2011

Lecturer: “Silencing Wage Theft: The Impact of Class Waivers in Arbitration Agreements on Low-Wage Workers,” Law & Society Association Annual Meeting

2010

Co-Lecturer: “Who’s Afraid of the Big Wage Suit,” Fifth Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor & Employment Law, Washington University Law School & St. Louis University Law School
Lecturer: “RIFs: Overview and Update,” 27th Annual National CLE Conference (LEI)

Practice Publications

2010 Associate Editor: Cumulative Supplement to “Employment Discrimination Law,” 4^th Ed. (BNA Books)
2009 Associate Editor: Cumulative Supplement to “Employment Discrimination Law,” 4^th Ed. (BNA Books)
Contributor, Employment Discrimination Law, 4^th Ed. (BNA Books)
2008 Co-Author: “Mandatory Arbitration of Employment Class Action Disputes: From the Perspective of Plaintiffs' Counsel,” 776 PLI/Lit. 255

Academic Publications

2011 Author: Experiential Learning in the First Year Curriculum: The Public Interest Partnership, 8 J. Ass’n Legal Writing Directors (Fall 2011) (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1678673)
2010 Author: Facilitating Wage Theft: How Courts Use Procedural Rules to Undermine Substantive Rights of Low-Wage Workers, 63 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 727 (2010) (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1466106)
2008 Author: Accommodating Respectful Religious Expression in the Workplace, 92 Marq. L. Rev. 1 (2008) (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1112713)
2006 Author: Bringing Sense to Incentives: An Examination of Incentive Payments to Named Plaintiffs in Employment Discrimination Class Actions, 10 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 395 (2006) (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=926212)