Location: Burlingame
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Telephone: (650) 461-9000
​Email: jliu@liupetersonfisher.com

​Jennifer Liu

​Managing Partner

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​Jennifer L. Liu is the Managing Partner of Liu Peterson-Fisher LLP, where she represents individuals in litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law. Ms. Liu focuses on employment discrimination, wage and hour violations, and employment contracts and agreements.

Ms. Liu has litigated dozens of cases in federal and state courts across the country and has helped recover over $150 million on behalf of workers and employees.* She frequently represents employees in the technology, financial services, and health care industries.  

Ms. Liu has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America by Best Lawyers in America in 2020, 2021, and 2022. She has also been named a Benchmark Litigation Labor and Employment Star, a ranking of the preeminent labor and employment litigation practitioners in the U.S. She has also been recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 75 Labor and Employment in California Lawyers in 2019, 2020, and 2022, and a Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyer in 2020, 2021, and 2022. She has also been named a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine in 2021 and 2022, and was previously named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers from 2017 to 2020.

Ms. Liu is an active member of the legal community and frequently speaks and publishes on employment law issues. She has served numerous leadership positions with the ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law, including Employee Co-Chair of the Committee on Equal Employment Law and Employee Vice Chair for the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession Committee, and Employee Co-Chair for the Flash e-Newsletter Committee.  She has served as an editor for numerous publications and treatises, including the treatise Employment Discrimination Law (Lindemann, Grossman, & Weirich), and Zero Tolerance: Best Practices for Combating Sex-Based Harassment in the Legal Profession (ABA Commission on Women in the Profession).

Ms. Liu founded the predecessor firm to Liu Peterson-Fisher LLP, The Liu Law Firm, P.C., in 2015. Prior to founding The Liu Law Firm, P.C., Ms. Liu worked at Outten & Golden LLP, the largest plaintiffs' employment law firm in the country. Ms. Liu also served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable John G. Koeltl of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and she earned her J.D./M.B.A. from Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before law and business school, Ms. Liu worked as an equity research analyst for Janus Capital Group, an investment management firm. She has passed Levels I, II, and III of the Chartered Financial Analyst program.

Ms. Liu is admitted to practice in the states of California and New York, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California, and the Eastern District of Michigan.

*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.