Rebecca Peterson-Fisher

Rebecca Peterson-Fisher joined Katz Banks Kumin as a Partner in 2023.  Throughout her career, Ms. Peterson-Fisher has focused her practice on litigation that advances social justice, whether by challenging corporate polices, securing justice for victims of wage theft, or holding harassers accountable.  Ms. Peterson-Fisher has represented a wide range of employees, from executives at publicly traded companies to fast food workers, and has successfully achieved both seven-figure settlements and substantive changes to policies and practices.

Prior to joining Katz Banks Kumin, Ms. Peterson-Fisher was a Partner with Liu Peterson-Fisher LLP, a Bay Area employment and civil rights law firm that merged with Katz Banks Kumin in 2023.  At Liu Peterson-Fisher LLP she handled all forms of employment law, including discrimination, retaliation, and harassment claims as well as wage and hour matters.  Previously, Ms. Peterson-Fisher was a senior staff attorney at Equal Rights Advocates focused on Title IX-related policy advocacy and litigation and gender equity in the workplace.  Ms. Peterson-Fisher also practiced law with the prominent Los Angeles civil rights law firm Traber & Voorhees, and in New York with Legal Services of New York.

Ms. Peterson-Fisher was named one of the Top 75 Labor and Employment Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal since 2022, recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer from 2020-2025, and included in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers guide, a national list, from 2021-2025.  She is the past Chair of the Alameda County Bar Association Labor & Employment Section Executive Committee and currently serves on the Appellate Section Executive Committee, as well as on the California Employment Lawyers Association’s Legislative Committee.

Ms. Peterson-Fisher received her JD from New York University School of Law in 2007 and clerked with Hon. Michael H. Dolinger, a United States Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York.  She is admitted to practice in the state of California, the Central and Northern Districts of California, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.