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Jen Sarafina joined Kamer Zucker Abbott in 2005, and represents employers in all facets of labor and employment law before administrative agencies and the state and federal courts. Jen has first chaired several labor arbitration matters, been extensively involved in multiple-employer labor negotiations, and has represented clients in matters pending before the Nevada Labor Commissioner, the Nevada Employee-Management Relations Board, the Nevada Equal Rights Commission and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She has also spoken to the Southern Nevada Human Resource Association as a member of their annual legal panel. Jen has been recognized as a Rising Star in the 2010 edition of the Mountain States Super Lawyer magazine.
Jen is a graduate of William Mitchell College of Law where she was ranked in the top twenty-five percent of her class and was an active member and officer of the Black Law Students Association. During law school, she worked full time for the Office of the Ramsey County Attorney in the Juvenile Prosecution Unit. Jen received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Labor Law in 2006, which is awarded by the Minnesota State Bar Association for the top performer in labor law in each of the four Minnesota law schools.
Prior to law school, Jen worked full-time at the University of Minnesota in the Political Science Department while completing her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology of Law, Criminology, and Deviance. She was one of eight students to complete the College of Liberal Arts Honors Program for that major in 2002.
Jen is a member of the Nevada State Bar and its labor and employment law section. Although a Minnesota native, she also lived for several years in Boston, Massachusetts, where she studied at the Berklee College of Music. Before attending law school, Jen worked in the travel industry in the operations and product development departments of several different companies including a multi-national corporation that specialized in group and educational travel. After completing law school, she decided it was finally time to move to a warmer climate, and she now enjoys the abundant sun and warmth of Las Vegas.
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