David Fujimoto joined Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 2017. His practice includes representing workers, unions, and trust funds in state and federal court on a variety of matters including wage and hour violations, employment discrimination, and ERISA benefit denials and collections matters. Mr. Fujimoto has extensive hearing experience as he frequently represents unions and workers in employment and labor arbitrations and before administrative agencies, including civil service commissions, merit boards, and the National Labor Relations Board.

Mr. Fujimoto also advises unions on a range of topics, including organizing campaigns, strikes, collective bargaining agreement enforcement, and protection of the right to engage in concerted activities. Through his work, Mr. Fujimoto strives to expand the labor movement and improve working conditions and rights of workers everywhere.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Fujimoto clerked with Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus in the nonprofit’s workers’ rights program, where he helped low-wage workers collect unpaid wages and penalties by pursuing claims through the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. He then worked for a solo practitioner, where he represented plaintiffs in employment and personal injury litigation, helping recover over $1 million in verdicts and settlements.

Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Fujimoto served as an elected bargaining representative for SEIU Local 1021 while working as a victim advocate for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. In this role, he led organizing efforts that galvanized and activated the union’s membership and empowered the chapter as it secured historic wage increases during contract negotiations.

Mr. Fujimoto earned his juris doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law, graduating cum laude. During law school, Mr. Fujimoto was a comments editor for the USF Law Review and received honors for Best Student Article of the Year for his article, “Thrown Under the Bus: Victims of Workplace Discrimination After Harris” (48 U.S.F. L. Rev. 111 (2013)), which analyzed the intersection of implicit bias and anti-discrimination law.

Mr. Fujimoto is licensed to practice law in California.