Sarah O. Wang - Lawyer in Honolulu, HI

SarahO. Wang joined MJW in April 1998 and was made a partner in January 2001. She has considerable experience in bothemployment litigation and training employers to better manage their workforce. Ms. Wangrepresents management in a wide range of labor and employment matters,including federal and state court litigation of wrongful termination,harassment, reasonable accommodation, breach of contract and other employmentclaims, discrimination and harassment cases pending before administrativeagencies, union arbitrations and airline System Boards of Adjustment, wage andhour audits and other administrative proceedings, and federal and stateappellate cases.

Ms. Wangalso devotes a substantial amount of her practice to providing training andadvising employers and their supervisory employees in managing personnel issuesand complying with various employment laws. She helps employers develop and implement policies to effectively managetheir workforce. Ms. Wang is a frequentspeaker at labor and employment law seminars on topics such as discriminationand harassment, employee privacy, internal investigations, reasonableaccommodation obligations, and wage and hour laws.

Ms. Wang graduated from the Universityof Virginia School of Law, where she was a Notes Editor for the Virginia LawReview. Following law school, Ms.Wang was a law clerk to the late Honorable Charles E. Wiggins on the UnitedStates Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Ms. Wang returned to Hawaii in 1995 after her clerkshipand began her career in private practice with Cades Schutte LLP, where shefocused on commercial litigation, including employment law matters.

Ms. Wang is admittedto practice law in the state and federal courts in Hawaii,the District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and D.C.Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Wang has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America since the 2007 edition and she has beenlisted in the Chambers USA directory, AmericasLeading Lawyers for Business, since 2004.