The 2026 listing of leading Employer-focused San Francisco Employment Lawyers details attorneys practising within the areas of employment and industrial relations matters across the greater San Francisco & Bay Area legal market whose practice has a strong employer representation focus and who have been identified by the city’s employment lawyers for their expertise and abilities in these areas.
Preeminent
Fred Alvarez, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass
Erin Connell, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Lynne Hermle, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Judith Droz Keyes, Davis Wright Tremaine
Laura Maechtlen, Seyfarth Shaw
Leila Narvid, Payne & Fears
Eric Akira Tate, Morrison Foerster
Leading
Wendy Brenner, Cooley
Koray Bulut, Goodwin Procter
Wilder Clements, Clements Employment Law PC
Rose-Ellen Fairgrieve, Fairgrieve Law Office
Michael Farbstein, Farbstein & Blackman
Lindsay Hutner, Greenberg Traurig
John Fish Jr, Littler Mendelson
Jane Kow, HR Law Consultants
Gary Lafayette, Sanders Roberts
Lisa Lawson, Lawson + Lawson
Scott Lawson, Lawson + Lawson
Wendy Lazerson, Sidley Austin
Joseph Liburt, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Jennifer Martinez, Hanson Bridgett
Lucky Meinz, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Rachael Meny, Keker Van Nest & Peters
Michele Ballard Miller, Cozen O’Connor
Marlene Muraco, Littler Mendelson
Alka Ramchandani-Raj, Littler Mendelson
Jennifer Redmond, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Christian Rowley, Seyfarth Shaw
Jamie Rudman, Sanchez Amador & Reyes
Cheryl Ann Sabnis, Vedder Price
April Sun, Goodwin Procter
Lisa Barnett Sween, Jackson Lewis
Gilbert Tsai, Hanson Bridgett
Billie Wenter, Boyer Wenter
Recommended
Dipanwita Deb Amar, Arnold & Porter
Eric Amdursky, O’Melveny & Myers
Brian Ashe, Seyfarth Shaw
Charles Birenbaum, Greenberg Traurig
Melissa Powar Clarke, Payne & Fears
Adam Fiss, Littler Mendelson
Michele Haydel Gehrke, Reed Smith
Carla Hartley, Dillingham & Murphy
Malcolm Heinicke, Munger Tolles & Olson
Stephen Hirschfeld, Hirschfeld Kraemer
Zachary Hutton, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Glen Kraemer, Hirschfeld Kraemer
Michael Laurenson, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
Andrew Livingston, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Garry Mathiason, Littler Mendelson
Cheryl Orr, Faegre Drinker
David Reis, Arnold & Porter
Gary Siniscalco, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Jeffrey Wohl, Nilan Johnson Lewis
Babak Yousefzadeh, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton