Daily Journal Names Cheryl Orr a 2025 ‘Top Labor & Employment Lawyer’

Labor and employment partner and San Francisco office leader Cheryl Orr has been selected by Daily Journal as one of the “Top Labor & Employment Lawyers” for 2025. The list recognizes California’s top attorneys who have made significant contributions to labor and employment law. This is the eleventh time that Cheryl has been included on this list of leading attorneys.

In a feature profile, Daily Journal highlighted Orr’s practice as one of the nation’s strongest wage and hour class action defense practices. She discussed how the wage and hour class actions were once a “phenomenon,” while noting that “now, they are an industry all their own.” Orr added that clients often hire Faegre Drinker “to handle complex [wage and hour] cases with a lot at stake.”

Regarding recent PAGA reforms, which took effect in 2024, Orr said that “the new rules include ways to fix or remediate problems on the front end and then have an early neutral assessment. A year in, parties and courts are still navigating how that will work. We’ve used [the new procedures] in cases where our facts are very strong. We point out to the other side that there’s no there there.”

The full list of honorees and feature profiles are available to Daily Journal subscribers.