Jane Farrell

Jane is passionate about telling clients’ stories and holding employers and corporations accountable. Prior to joining Gibbs Law Group, Jane worked as an associate at two leading plaintiff-side employment law firms. At those firms, she assisted in a range of matters, including class actions involving worker misclassification, discrimination, and wage theft, as well as individual and mass arbitrations. Jane also clerked for the Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.

As a student at UCLA School of Law, Jane specialized in public interest law and policy. She served as editor in chief of the UCLA Journal of Gender and the Law and as chair of the Race, Work, and Economic Justice Clinic, which partnered with the Los Angeles Black Worker Center and Legal Aid at Work to provide free legal services for workers. During law school, Jane externed for the Honorable Jacqueline H. Nguyen on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and clerked for a plaintiff-side employment firm. As a research assistant for Professors David Marcus and Blake Emerson, she researched issues relating to complex and multidistrict litigation, class certification, and administrative guidance.

Before law school, Jane was a policy advisor to then-Secretary Tom Perez at the U.S. Department of Labor, where she helped expand access to earned sick time and paid family and medical leave. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, she researched and wrote about the changing nature of work, rising inequality, equal pay, and women’s rights at the Center for American Progress and then the Clinton Foundation, authoring dozens of publications over five years.

Jane has published articles in three law journals, including the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, the leading law review for employment and labor law scholarship.