Ms. Yu-Yee Wu

Yu-Yee Wu, Associate
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YU-YEE WU was born in Kao-hsiung, Taiwan, but has lived in the United States since she was a year old.After graduating from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1993, she proceeded to work at the Organization of Chinese Americans for two years as a project coordinator working on educational campaigns for civil rights issues concerning the Chinese American and the Asian American community before going to the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995.As a law student, Ms. Wu was a UVA Law School Ritter Scholar and received a National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation scholarship in 1996.During law school, she was president of the Asian American Law Students Association and co-chaired the ACLU Civil Rights Clinic at UVA.Ms. Wu also was a member of the UVA Journal of Social Policy and the Law.Ms. Wu clerked for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area in the summer of 1997.After graduating from law school, Ms. Wu served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Magistrate Judge Marilyn Dolan Go in federal district court in the Eastern District of New York.

Ms. Wu's areas of practice are employment, with an emphasis on employment discrimination in the federal sector, personal injury, and plaintiff's class action work.Her experience includes working with federal employees on employment discrimination cases in the EEO hearing process.Ms. Wu was admitted to the California State Bar in 1999.She is active in the Civil Rights Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area.

Prior to joining the law firm of Minami, Lew & Tamaki LLP, Ms. Wu practiced predominantly in the area of consumer fraud class actions at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein in San Francisco, California.

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Yu-Yee Wu is staff counsel for the California Department of Industrial Relations, working on regulatory and policy issues for the Division of Workers' Compensation.Yu-Yee has been an active AABA member since 2000 and served as a co-chair of the Civil Rights Committee from 2001-2002.Yu-Yee is a former employment litigator at Minami Lew & Tamaki and a former civil litigator at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein.A native of Tallahassee, Florida, she received a NAPABA Law Foundation scholarship while at the University of Virginia School of Law and served as the judicial clerk to the Honorable Magistrate Judge Marilyn Go in the Eastern District of New York.

Yu-Yee is a commissioner for the San Francisco Civil Service Commission and is on the board of the Organization of Chinese Americans San Francisco chapter and the board of the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California.Yu-Yee has been a member of AABA's Board of Directors since 2005.

Yu-Yee Wu - Civil Rights
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The board of directors are Celia Lee, Elaine Chow, Jayashri Srikantiah, Marissa Tirona, Mai-Ang Nguyen, Eugene Pak, Garner Weng and Yu-Yee Wu.
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Civil Rights Committee Co-Chair Willie Nguyen with Board Member Yu-Yee Wu and Ronin Hwang.
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Yu-Yee Wu and scholarship winner Stephanie Lacambra, Boalt 3L

Yu-Yee Wu has extensive experience both as an attorney championing employment protections and as counsel to the State of California's Department of Industrial Relations implementing civil service reform.

Through these roles, Ms. Wu has become an expert in major federal and state employment laws, including the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.

Ms. Wu is a Board Member for the Asian American Bar Association; Board Member, Organization of Chinese Americans- San Francisco Chapter; member, Bar Association of San Francisco; member, National Employment Lawyers Association; and member, Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California.Yu-Yee Wu received her J.D. Degree, with honors, from the University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville and a B.A. with highest honors, in Journalism and a minor in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.