Jahan Sagafi

Jahan Sagafi

Bio as of February 2017:

Jahan C. Sagafi is the partner in charge of the San Francisco office of Outten & Golden LLP, where he represents employees in class actions asserting wage and hour, discrimination, and other claims. Mr. Sagafi is active in the legal community, having served on the boards of Alliance for Justice, the San Francisco American Constitution Society (ACS) chapter, the ACLU of Northern California, and Public Advocates. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein and clerked for the Honorable William W. Schwarzer of the Northern District of California. He is a frequent speaker and writer regarding employment litigation, class action jurisprudence, and other issues.

Articles written by this author:

Class actions: A path through the darkness?

New directions for class-action lawyers in the era of a conservative-dominated Supreme Court

Jahan Sagafi
Jennifer L. Liu

2014 January


Spotting FLSA & California overtime exemption violations

Who is classified as exempt from overtime and how to spot misclassification by employers

Jahan Sagafi

2016 January


Class-action settlements in an ever-more-crowded field

Class-action settlements in an ever-more-crowded field

Courts get tougher on procedure and defendants play one plaintiff against the other

Jahan Sagafi
Tara Mohseni

2017 February


Talk is not always cheap

Beware of coercion: Monitoring defense communications with class members is particularly important between defendant employers and their employees

Jahan Sagafi
Nantiya Ruan

2019 February