This prestigious honor recognizes their exceptional contributions to advancing workers’ rights and upholding the highest standards of legal ethics.
Outten & Golden LLP is proud to announce that partners Jahan C. Sagafi and Jenny R. Yang have been elected as Fellows of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. The College is a distinguished community of changemakers across the country. Members are recognized for their commitment to upholding the highest standards of professionalism and ethics.
Jahan is the partner-in-charge of our San Francisco office. He has spent his career championing workers’ rights through complex class actions involving wage and hour violations, discrimination, and consumer protection. Jahan is also an active leader in the legal community, serving on the boards of various civil rights organizations in California and beyond, contributing to the development of employment and class action law, and writing amicus briefs on important workplace rights issues.
Jenny is a partner in our Washington D.C. office, where she brings decades of leadership experience in both public service and private practice. She previously served as Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and as Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Jenny has been at the forefront of advancing workplace equal opportunity and enforcing workers’ rights and continues to educate workers and the public on cutting-edge issues in employment law.
Jahan and Jenny join Outten & Golden’s existing fellows, Adam T. Klein, Laurence S. Moy, and Wayne R. Outten, in this esteemed body. Their election is a testament to the firm’s enduring commitment to justice, professionalism, and leadership in the labor and employment bar.
