Jahan Sagafi

Jahan 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. Active in the legal communities of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and nation, Jahan has served on several boards. He is a board member of national nonprofit Alliance for Justice. Jahan is also a member of the San Francisco American Constitution Society (ACS) Bay Area chapter’s Board of Advisors. In the past, he has served as a Governor of the board of the nonprofit Public Advocates, a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) Judicial Evaluations Committee, a BASF attorney fee disputes arbitrator, Vice Chair of the board of the ACLU of Northern California (and Chair of Legal Committee), chair of the Board of the San Francisco ACS chapter, and as an Executive Committee member of the California Bar Litigation Section. Additionally, Jahan has served as an organizer of ABA Labor & Employment Law Section conferences. Jahan has been recognized by numerous legal and non-profit organizations. He has received the Community Justice Award from Centro Legal De La Raza, and has been repeatedly recognized as one of the “Top 100 Super Lawyers” in Northern California (2015-18), one of the Daily Journal’s “Top 75 Labor and Employment Lawyers” in California (2015-18), and one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers (2018).