Location: Oakland
Pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs
Phone: (510) 698-9273
Email: [email protected]

We are pleased to announce that Liu Peterson-Fisher LLP has merged with Katz Banks Kumin LLP, effective September 2023. I can be reached at [email protected] or you can visit my current bio page here.

​Rebecca Peterson-Fisher

Partner

Rebecca Peterson-Fisher is a Partner with Liu Peterson-Fisher LLP.  She litigates individual cases and class actions involving discrimination and wage and hour violations, with a focus on cases that advance social justice.  Ms. Peterson-Fisher was named one of the Top 75 Labor and Employment Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal in 2022.  From 2020-2022 she was also named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers guide, a national list created through nominations and independent journalistic research and vetted by peers and adversaries. In addition, Ms. Peterson-Fisher was recognized by Super Lawyers magazine as a Southern California Rising Star in 2015 and 2016, as a Northern California Rising Star in 2018 and 2019, and as a Northern California Super Lawyer from 2020-2022. 

Ms. Peterson-Fisher serves on the Executive Committees of the Alameda County Bar Association's Labor & Employment and Appellate Sections, and chaired the Labor & Employment Section Executive Committee in 2021.  She also serves on the Board of Directors of Alliance for Girls, an alliance of organizations serving girls and gender-expansive youth that works to generate community-driven systemic change.
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Ms. Peterson-Fisher received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law in 2007.  At NYU, she was selected as the Tom Stoddard LGBT Rights Fellow of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Medal for her contributions to the law school. Ms. Peterson-Fisher then served as a clerk to Hon. Michael H. Dolinger, a United States Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York.  Prior to Liu Peterson-Fisher LLP, Ms. Peterson-Fisher was an associate with Traber & Voorhees, a prominent Los Angeles civil rights law firm, a senior staff attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, and a trial attorney with the Brooklyn Family Defense Project (now Brooklyn Defender Services).

​Ms. Peterson-Fisher is admitted to practice in the state of California, the Central and Northern Districts of California, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.