Legal Team
Adam T. Klein, Partner
ADAM T. KLEIN is the Deputy Managing Partner of Outten & Golden LLP and is located in the New York office. His practice focuses on the prosecution of class actions and impact litigation of employment discrimination and wage and hour claims.
Ossai Miazad, Partner
OSSAI MIAZAD is Partner and Co-Chair of the Discrimination and Retaliation Practice Group, and is also active in the firm's Class & Collective Action Practice Group and Family Responsibilities and Disability Discrimination Practice Group at Outten & Golden LLP in New York. She represents employees in class action discrimination and wage and hour cases, as well as individual litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law, including cases involving discrimination, harassment, and retaliation; executive and professional contracts and compensation.
Jahan Sagafi, Partner
JAHAN C. SAGAFI is the partner in charge of the Outten & Golden San Francisco office, where he represents employees in class actions asserting wage and hour, discrimination, and other claims.
Lewis M. Steel, Senior Counsel
LEWIS M. STEEL is Senior Counsel to Outten & Golden LLP in New York. He works on a range of class action cases involving sexual and racial discrimination, overtime claims, and tipping issues. For many years he has focused primarily on class action employment discrimination cases. Mr. Steel’s precedent-setting employment discrimination decisions include Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avagliano, 457 U.S. 176, which established that American subsidiaries of foreign corporations must obey American civil rights laws.
Christopher M. McNerney, Associate
CHRISTOPHER M. MCNERNEY is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP in New York and is a member of the firm’s Class Action, Discrimination and Retaliation, and Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Practice Groups. Mr. McNerney represents employees in class action discrimination, wage and hour and FCRA cases, as well as individual litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law, including criminal background checks, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, executive and professional contracts and compensation.
Cheryl-Lyn D. Bentley, Associate
CHERYL-LYN D. BENTLEY is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP in New York. She is a member of the firm’s Class Action Practice Group, representing employees in wage and hour, FCRA, and discrimination litigation. Before joining the firm in 2015, Ms. Bentley clerked for the Honorable Chief Judge Petrese Tucker of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to clerking, Ms. Bentley served as a fellow and staff attorney at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc. where she worked on cases involving violations of federal and state disability laws. Ms. Bentley received her B.A. from Harvard University in 2006 and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2011.