Jen Sarafina
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Jen Sarafina joined Kamer Zucker Abbott in 2005 and became a partner in 2013. Jen represents employers in all facets of labor and employment law before administrative agencies and the state and federal courts. Jen has represented clients in labor arbitration matters, and she has had extensive involvement in multiple employer labor negotiations. Jen regularly represents clients in matters pending before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Nevada Employee-Management Relations Board, the Nevada Labor Commissioner, and the Nevada Equal Rights Commission. She has secured important victories for clients in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Nevada state and federal courts, and before the National Labor Relations Board.
Jen was named “Lawyer of the Year” Las Vegas 2022 for Employment Law – Management by Best Lawyers®, in which she has been recognized since 2012. She also was named among the “Top Rank Attorneys” (formerly “Legal Elite) by Nevada Business.
Jen also conducts employee and supervisor training and has spoken to the Southern Nevada Human Resources Association as a member of its annual legal panel in 2009 and 2010.
Jen is a member of the State Bar of Nevada’s Litigation and Labor and Employment Law Sections, and has served on the State Bar of Nevada’s Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board from 2010 until she reached her term limits in 2022. She also was appointed by the Nevada Supreme Court and the Nevada Board of Governors as a Mentor for the State Bar of Nevada’s Transitioning into Practice (“TIP”) program.
- Nevada, 2005
- U.S. District Court District of Nevada, 2005
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit,
- J.D., cum laude, William Mitchell College of Law (now Mitchell Hamline Law), St. Paul, Minnesota
- B.A., summa cum laude, with Honors in Sociology of Law & Criminology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Best Lawyers® 2012 – present
- Best Lawyers® 2022 Lawyer of the Year – Employment Law – Management (Las Vegas)
- Rising Star, Mountain States Super Lawyers Magazine, 2010, 2014, 2015
- Legal Elite 2020: The Silver State’s Top Attorneys, Nevada Business, Vol. 35 No. 6
- Top Rank Attorney, Southern Nevada, Nevada Business, 2022 & 2023
- State Bar of Nevada
- State Bar of Nevada, Labor and Employment Section, Member 2008-2023, 2025 – present
- Member, Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board, 2010-2022
- Employee Leave Issues: Five Traps to Avoid, (co-authored with Dare E. Heisterman), Nevada Lawyer, March 2020
- It is No Longer “Business as Usual” for Employers After the NLRB’s Implementation of new “Quickie” Election Rules, Communiqué, Clark County Bar Association, March 201
- Lawyers in Love (co-authored with Gregory J. Kamer) for the Clark County Bar Association’s Communiqué, 2012, Vol. 33