Danielle Fuschetti

Danielle Fuschetti is a passionate employee rights attorney who represents workers throughout the state of California. Danielle is a partner at Sanford Heisler Sharp in Palo Alto, California, and a co-Chair of Sanford Heisler Sharp's Discrimination and Harassment Practice Group. 

Danielle has been recognized in the legal community as a Rising Star by Law 360, Super Lawyers, and the National Law Journal, and an Outstanding Volunteer by the Bar Association of San Francisco, Justice and Diversity Center, in addition to other accolades.

Danielle represents workers at all stages of the litigation process, from negotiating severance agreements, through trial. Danielle has experience representing employees across many industries, including technology, finance, law, and healthcare and many practice areas, including wage-and-hour law, civil rights, sexual harassment, equal pay, and whistleblower retaliation law.

Danielle’s notable representations have included:

• Representing a female former employee in securing a $7.5 multimillion-dollar settlement on behalf of a class of women at Western Digital based on claims of sex discrimination and unequal pay
• Negotiating a multimillion-dollar individual settlement for female employee at a tech company terminated in retaliation for complaining about her employer’s hostile work environment
• Representing female employees in securing $19.5 million dollar settlement on behalf of a class of women at Qualcomm based on claims of sex discrimination and equal pay
• Representing a women’s basketball coach in her successful claim for retaliatory discharge against a University, resulting in a jury verdict of over $3.3 million
• Representing misclassified hourly employee in securing class-wide settlement on behalf of hundreds of other employees in the insurance industry based on claims of misclassification
• Litigating a Private Attorney General Act lawsuit asserting wage and hour violations affecting thousands of sales employees through multi-phase trial against a large technology company
• Negotiating multiple million+ dollar settlements for female attorneys who faced discrimination in pay and promotions
• Representing multiple employees in retaliation and discrimination cases against large healthcare systems

In addition, Danielle also speaks and writes on issues in employment litigation and various topics that impact workers, including discrimination, disability rights, equal pay, class actions, wage and hour law, and the impact of COVID-19. 

Danielle received her law degree from the University of Michigan School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. While at University of Michigan School of Law, Danielle was an Article Editor on the Journal of Gender and Law, and an editor of the Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law. During law school, Danielle pursued her passion for social justice through summer clerkships at the EEOC Office of Appeals and at New Hampshire Legal Assistance, and as an extern at the Center for WorkLife Law in San Francisco, where she co-authored a law review article titled A Sip of Cool Water: Pregnancy Accommodation After the ADA Amendments Act, published in the Yale Law and Policy Review.