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Forced arbitration: Designed to suppress claims

San Francisco Daily Journal - Jahan Sagafi and Michelle Erickson

Concerned with the success of the civil rights and women's rights movements in the 1960s and cultural challenges to corporate power, conservatives in the 1970s planned their legal revolution. In recent decades, this effort has borne fruit. Ballooning corporate power and substantial erosion of the public sphere have caused a yawning chasm between rich and poor. One of the conservative legal architects' greatest achievements is forced arbitration: the privatization of the public court system coupled with attacks on one of the strongest tools for civil law enforcement - the class action.

PBS show explores misconduct at Uber and Outten & Golden’s class action lawsuit success

Outten & Golden LLP

Recently, PBS and its New York affiliate, WLIW, aired an episode of renowned journalist Sheelah Kolhatkar’s show “Playing by the Rules” that focused on Uber and featured interviews with our lawyers Jahan Sagafi, Iris Mattes, and Rachel Dempsey.  That episode explores what went wrong at Uber, and how it found itself the subject of intense public scrutiny and criticism for allegations of discrimination and harassment.  In the episode, our legal team discusses their work advocating on behalf of female...

Outten & Golden LLP Partner Jahan Sagafi Again Recognized as One of the Top 75 Labor & Employment Lawyers in California of the Year

Outten & Golden LLP

Outten & Golden partner Jahan Sagafi has been recognized one of the Top Labor & Employment Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal in California.  The annual award is given to 75 California-based attorneys for their contributions to the law and the community. Daily Journal’s list draws from plaintiffs’, defense, government, and nonprofit lawyers.  Mr. Sagafi was included for the third year in a row.

The Daily Journal highlighted Mr. Sagafi’s work on del Toro Lopez v Uber...

Outten & Golden Lures Lieff Atty To Lead New SF Office

Law360.com—Jonathan Randles

Employment law firm Outten & Golden LLP plans to open a new San Francisco office in October that will be headed by Jahan C. Sagafi.

Employment Group Of The Year: Outten & Golden

Law360—Dani Kass

Outten & Golden LLP convinced a jury that Computer Sciences Corp. misclassified its workers as overtime exempt and reached multimillion-dollar settlements on behalf of workers accusing Uber Technologies Inc. and Target Corp. of discrimination, earning it a spot as one of Law360’s Employment Groups of the Year.

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