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Winston & Strawn LLP Offices
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39TH FLOOR
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Joan Fife
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Work Department
Labor & Employment
Position
Joan Fife – Labor & Employment | Winston & Strawn
Joan Fife is the managing partner of Winston’s San Francisco office, heads the firm’s San Francisco Labor & Employment Practice, and represents employers throughout the country in class action employment litigation. Clients praise her “very good courtroom demeanor” and describe her as “one of the best attorneys for wage and hour class actions” that is “great at strategy and thinking about the best way to handle things” and knows “when it’s appropriate to be aggressive.”
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
The expertise of Winston & Strawn LLP’s labor and employment team covers a wide range of contentious matters including whistleblower, discrimination, wrongful termination, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of contract mandates. The group routinely assists employers in the healthcare, professional services, and luxury goods segments. National practice chair Michael Roche is based in Chicago and has broad advisory and contentious labor and employment expertise. Also in Chicago, local managing partner Cardelle Spangler has acted on numerous high-profile discrimination matters. In San Francisco, Joan Fife is a seasoned class action practitioner whose practice encompasses wage and hour classification matters and suitable seating and rest break lawsuits.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Industry focus > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- International trade > CFIUS
- Government > Government contracts