Jennifer Schwartz is a partner at Outten & Golden LLP and heads the individual practice in the San Francisco office. She represents employees exclusively in a wide range of employment matters, including litigation in state and federal trial courts, before administrative agencies, in appellate courts and in arbitration. Her practice also includes a variety of professional and executive compensation matters, including the negotiation of employment, equity, severance, separation, restrictive covenant, and trade secret agreements. She has significant experience representing founder/employees who find themselves in disputes with their own companies. Much of Ms. Schwartz’s employment practice focuses on claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and violation of state and federal wage and hour laws. She represents whistleblowers and individuals who have experienced adverse employment action as a result of opposing illegal or unethical corporate practices. Ms. Schwartz has been repeatedly nominated by her peers as a Super Lawyer, a Best Lawyer and has been named a Top Woman Attorney in Northern California. She serves on the Board of Equal Rights Advocates and the Marin Trial Lawyers’ Association. She is currently Co-Chair of the Labor & Employment section of the Marin County Bar Association. She serves as a FINRA arbitrator. Ms. Schwartz is a graduate of Yale University and N.Y.U. School of Law, having completed her third year at Stanford School of Law. Ms. Schwartz recognizes the importance of pre-litigation resolution and is proud of the dozens of matters in which she has achieved successful resolution of pre- and post-employment conflicts short of litigation using a collaborative approach with her clients and their employers.

Pat Goldman has represented employees in employment law matters for more than twenty-three years. Since opening her own practice in San Rafael in January of 2011, she has also acted as a mediator on employment law cases. She has won verdicts in cases involving fundamental employment rights including wrongful termination in violation of public policy, and illegal wage and hour practices. Ms. Goldman has also written and spoken on employment law issues and has served as a contributing editor on the National Employment Discriminations Law treatise and the Rutter Group’s California Practice Guide on Employment Litigation, where, between 2011 and 2013, she served as Principal Contributing Editor. Ms. Goldman is the co-chair of the Bay Area Cabal/Plaintiff’s Employment Lawyers Association, and a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association (where she serves on the Diversity Committee), Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, and the Marin County Bar Association. She has held an “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell since 1999, and been listed as a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics Magazine and San Francisco Magazine for more than ten years.

Zoë DeGeer is Senior Litigation Counsel at Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & Lowe, LLP where she exclusively represents employees in wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, medical leave and breach of contract actions, as well as severance negotiations. Prior to joining the firm in 2020, Ms. DeGeer worked as an associate at Dickson Geesman LLP and Outten & Golden LLP. Ms. DeGeer graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law in 2014 with honors and certifications in litigation and public interest law. In law school, Ms. DeGeer was heavily involved in the litigation department and mock trial program. Her mock trial team won the regional American Bar Association Labor and Employment Mock Trial Competition and was a semi-finalist in the national competition. She worked in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office as a Law Clerk for two years in the sexual assault, child assault, domestic violence, misdemeanor, and law and motion units. Ms. DeGeer also worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Cynthia Ming-mei Lee and the Appellate Department of the San Francisco Superior Court. ​ Ms. DeGeer is Employee Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section’s Membership Retention and Trial Advocacy Committees and a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association and National Employment Lawyers Association. She is a graduate of the American Bar Association’s Leadership Development Program.