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Jade Yee

Jade Yee advises on a broad range of labor and employment matters to diverse clientele, including private and public companies and non-profit organizations in various industries, including financial and legal services, technology, retail, and manufacturing.

Jade is a trusted advisor, with deep experience providing strategic advice to management, legal, and human resources personnel on issues related to workforce changes, leaves and accommodations, worker classifications, performance management, and compliance with the newest U.S. federal, state, and local labor and employment laws and regulations. She regularly negotiates and drafts executive employment, restrictive covenant, and separation agreements, develops workplace policies and trainings, and conducts internal investigations of employee complaints. Jade also advises on labor and employment aspects of corporate transactions, both domestic and cross-border, including pre-acquisition diligence, transaction documents, and post-closing employee matters.

When employee disputes do occur, she is a fierce advocate for her clients in court, arbitration, and administrative proceedings – litigating claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and other federal, state and local employment statutes.

On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, rejecting a heightened evidentiary burden for a plaintiff who is a member of a “majority group” under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Claims brought by such majority-group plaintiffs are sometimes referred to as “reverse discrimination” claims.
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