Winnie Vien joined Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 2022 as an associate in the Emeryville office. She previously worked as a law clerk for the firm beginning the summer of 2021. Ms. Vien represents workers and unions in a variety of labor and employment matters, with a focus on class actions and wage and hour litigation. She is passionate about helping low-income, underrepresented workers receive fair pay for their labor. 

While attending the New York University School of Law, Ms. Vien interned in the Labor Bureau within the New York State of the Attorney General’s Social Justice Division and conducted research on compensation and retraining for workers displaced due to automation. She was a Senior Articles Editor for the Review of Law and Social Change, a board member of Law Students for Economic Justice, and a part of the Coalition on Labor Action According to Workers and Students. She also represented tenants facing eviction as part of the Housing Rights Externship at the Legal Aid Society in New York.

Before law school, Ms. Vien spent three years working as a legal assistant at a plaintiff-side employment law firm specializing in discrimination and retaliation matters. She has experience working on pre-litigation as well as litigation matters, including mediations, arbitrations, and administrative claims filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and under the Private Attorneys General Act. Ms. Vien has also worked extensively with both the workers’ rights and housing rights programs at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, where she assisted many low-income immigrants experiencing wage theft and facing evictions. 

Ms. Vien received her juris doctor in 2022 from the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar. She earned her undergraduate degree in 2016 from Swarthmore College with a major in sociology and anthropology and minors in Spanish and Chinese.

Ms. Vien speaks Cantonese fluently.