Jenny R. Yang
Jenny Yang joined the Firm in 2003 and is a Partner in the Civil Rights & Employment practice group.
Currently, Ms. Yang works on Aaron v. Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., Civ. No. 06-1082 (W.D. Ark.), and related actions in a multi-district litigation proceeding, in which workers seek redress for unpaid overtime. Ms. Yang is also litigating Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (N.D. Cal.), the largest certified Title VII class action in history, in which female employees allege sex discrimination in promotions and pay decisions. In addition, Ms. Yang represented the plaintiffs and class in Beck v. The Boeing Company (W.D. Wash.), a class action alleging gender discrimination, which settled in 2004 for $72.5 million. She is also working on Jenkins v. BellSouth (N.D. Ala.), a race discrimination case alleging systemic discrimination in pay and promotions and Robinson-Smith v. GEICO (D.D.C.) and Lindsay v. GEICO (D.D.C.), two separate nationwide lawsuits challenging GEICO's refusal to pay auto damage adjusters overtime.
Ms. Yang is a contributing editor of the American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section’s employment discrimination treatise, Lindemann & Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law, upcoming 4th Edition. She is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and has served as a speaker on race discrimination issues at their National Convention.
Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Yang was a Senior Trial Attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, where she worked for five years on both pattern or practice and individual federal employment discrimination cases against state and local governments. She litigated cases involving discrimination based on race, sex, and national origin. Before her work at the Department of Justice, Ms. Yang received a community service fellowship to work at the National Employment Law Project in New York City, a non-profit organization focusing on low-wage workers’ rights. While there, she worked on ground-breaking joint-employer liability litigation to hold garment manufacturers liable for unpaid wages owed to garment workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act. After law school, Ms. Yang clerked for the Honorable Edmund Ludwig on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In 1992-1993, Ms. Yang worked on the Presidential Transition and at the White House, Office of Presidential Personnel.
Ms. Yang serves as a member of Board of Directors of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center. From 2001-2003, she served as a government fellow for the American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section, Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. She also served as a National Co-Chair and Board Member of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum from 1998-2004.
Ms. Yang graduated from Cornell University (B.A., Government, with distinction, 1992) and New York University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1996) where she was a Root-Tilden Public Interest Scholar and a Note and Comment Editor of the Law Review.
Ms. Yang is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, New York, and New Jersey.
Contact: jyang@cmht.com
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