Moira Heiges-Goepfert
About
Moira Heiges-Goepfert is Counsel at Outten & Golden in its San Francisco office and a member of the firm’s Class Action Practice Group. She represents employees in class action discrimination (race, gender, immigration and criminal history), wage and hour, and Fair Credit Reporting Act cases, as well as other civil rights cases aimed at eliminating systemic injustice. Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Moira clerked for the Honorable Jon O. Newman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Honorable Valerie Caproni, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also worked as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York and taught English literature and writing at a public university in Beijing, China. Moira earned her B.A. with honors from Yale University in 2004, and her J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2010, where she served as Managing Editor for the Minnesota Law Review.
Bar Admissions & Professional Activities
Ms. Heiges-Goepfert is admitted to practice law only in California and New York.
Ms. Heiges-Goepfert is admitted to the following federal courts: The United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York, and the Northern District of California; and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Ninth Circuit.
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA)
Speaking Engagements
2022
- Speaker: "Former Defense Attorneys Roundtable," CELA’s Wage & Hour Committee, CELA's 18th Annual Advanced Wage & Hour seminar, Webinar
- Panelist: "2022 Employment Law Update," Santa Clara University, Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center, 2022 Speaker Series, Webinar
2020
- Speaker: "Epic Maneuvers: Litigation and Legislative Tactics in the World of Class Action Waivers," Minnesota CLE, 2020 Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute, Webcast
Publications & Articles
If your employer required you to wait around your workplace for up to 45 minutes after the end of your shift before letting you go home, you would...
Several recent changes in New Jersey employment law have increased protections for Garden State workers. This stands in contrast to new...
Awards & Recognition
Member, Order of the Coif
