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Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP
Sanford Heisler Sharp’s San Francisco office is located in the city’s Financial District. The San Francisco office’s impressive record of success reflects our staff’s personal and professional investment in representing clients who deserve justice. Our attorneys in San Francisco work together with the experienced attorneys in our Washington, DC, New York, San Diego, and Nashville offices.
San Francisco Managing Attorney
The San Francisco office benefits from the leadership of Xinying Valerian, the managing attorney. Ms. Valerian represents employees in individual and class actions involving wage and hour, retaliation, discrimination and other civil rights claims, as well as in qui tam matters. She frequently represents executives and lawyers in severance negotiations and, if necessary, litigation. She is current leading class and representative actions to recover wages and penalties for thousands of employees of Oracle, the Silicon Valley technology giant. Ms. Valerian also secured a class settlement after having briefed, argued, and won four certified classes on behalf of low-wage Chinese American workers at Ma Laboratories in San Jose, California.
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Practice Areas
- 30%Employment & Labor: Employee
- 30%Civil Rights
- 30%Employment Litigation: Plaintiff
- 5%Class Action/Mass Torts: Plaintiff
- 5%Civil Litigation: Plaintiff
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