Jenny Yu

Overview

Jenny Yu is an employment attorney with a focus in defending against and resolving wage-and-hour claims, class actions, and the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) representative actions. She is experienced in wrongful termination and discrimination claims brought under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and the California Labor Code. She provides preventative counseling and advice to governmental and private entities on a range of employment topics including wage and hour standards, leave laws, and personnel policies. She handles general, employment, and business cases, and specializes in complex civil litigation. Throughout her decades of practice, she has logged thousands of hours in the courtroom. While early resolution is always a goal, she enjoys presenting cases in both jury and bench trials. She values the opportunity to represent and advise companies, startups, small businesses, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.

Earlier in her career, Jenny represented youth in foster care in San Francisco and Alameda Counties. In that role, she advocated for underserved and marginalized children and young people as they navigated the juvenile court systems, educational barriers, and instability. She worked closely with social workers, teachers, therapists, and community-based organizations. She also provided legal education and volunteer opportunities to law students as a supervising attorney for the FosterEd program at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Prior to public interest law, she worked as a volunteer attorney on an appeal before the Special Court for Sierra Leone, a tribunal formed by the United Nations to try crimes against humanity and war crimes arising out of the Sierra Leone Civil War.

Jenny is licensed to practice law in California and New York.

On her time off, she enjoys hiking, working out, arranging flowers, and spending time with her partner, two girls, and their rescue pittie-Boston Terrier mix, Liz Diller. She is conversationally fluent in Korean and continues to study Spanish.