
Jen draws on 30 years of experience crafting legal solutions to employment challenges. Her clients include small and large businesses and individual representation of executives. She advises technology, financial services, publishing, retail, professional services, and health care companies seeking regulatory, litigation, and compliance advice. She divides her employment practice between wage and hour compliance and trial practice, with a focus on class actions, trade secrets and employment mobility disputes, and the defense of discrimination, retaliation and other disputes arising from the employment relationship. While Jen is a zealous advocate in the courtroom, she relishes counseling clients as they navigate the manner in which the employment relationship impacts their business and personal lives.
Jen, who has an AV Preeminent ranking from Martindale-Hubbell, is a faculty member and advisor to The Honor Foundation, a non-profit organization that assists Navy Seals and other armed services special operators transition from military service to the private sector. She is a Co-Chair of San Diego’s Workplace Equity & Civility Initiative, an initiative launched as a proactive and productive community response to the #MeToo movement that is facilitated by The Lawyers Club of San Diego. She is also Co- Chair of the San Diego 2020 Women on Boards Leadership Committee. She was named as one of San Diego's Top Influential Women for 2020 by the San Diego Daily Transcript and frequently writes about employment topics. The National Law Review recently named Jen its “National Law Review Go-To Thought Leader” for 2020 for her article, “Vaccinate or Terminate – Mandatory Vaccination as Workplace Policy” which had over 250,000 pageviews since its publication in July 2020. You can follow her Corporate Divorce Series and other thought pieces on LinkedIn here.
Her recent publications and speaking engagements include:
- Quoted in MarketWatch, Tech Tales, “Regulating Big Tech will be hard, and California is proving it,” December 31, 2020.
- Author, Law360 - "Employer Vaccine Practices May Spur Bias, Consumer Claims," December 8, 2020.
- Quoted, Washington Post - "What You Need to Know about the Moderna and Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine," November 17, 2020.
- Quoted, Bloomberg Law - "Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates at Work Promise Employer Headaches" November 2, 2020.
- Author, Bloomberg Law - "Guidance for Complying with California's New Board Diversity Mandate" October 15, 2020.
- Author, Daily Journal - "California's New Diversity Mandate for Corporate Boards" October 9, 2020.
- Author, Bloomberg Law - "Insight: How to Handle Employees Who Refuse Mandatory Vaccines" August 11, 2020.
- Author, National Law Review - "Vaccinate or Terminate - Mandatory Vaccination As Workplace Policy" August 4, 2020.
- Author, Law360 - "What Employers Should Know About Return-To-Work Surveys" June 19, 2020.
- Co-Author with M. Frayer, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance - “Board Oversight of Human Capital Risk – Is it Time to Appoint a Chief Covid Officer?” May 19, 2020.
- Quoted, Bloomberg Law - "What's Legal in Covid-19 Pay Cuts Isn't Necessarily What's Fair" May 11, 2020.
- Quoted, SHRM - "Revise Policies to Facilitate Return to Work" April 22, 2020.
- Author, San Francisco Daily Journal - "Gender Mandate for Corporate Boards: A Year in Review" March 17, 2020.
- Quoted, The Wall Street Journal - "Young Workers Seek Mental Health Accommodations, Employers Try to Keep Up" February 12, 2020.
- Moderator, ACC San Diego, SHRM and Mintz - "Politics, People & Passions: Managing Political Speech & Conflict Inside (and Outside) the Corporate Workplace" February 12, 2020.
- Author, Corporate Counsel - "Managing Diverse Board Personalities to Achieve Consensus" January 23, 2020.
- Speaker, 2020 Women on Boards, National Conversation on Board Diversity, San Diego Chapter - "Update on Legal Challenges to SB 826" November 22, 2019.
- Author, Bloomberg Law - "INSIGHT: Easing Conflicts When Hiring in a Family Business" October 8, 2019.
- Author, Law360 (Expert Analysis) - "#MeToo Shows Two Years of Progress Toward Gender Parity" October 2, 2019.
- Author, The Recorder - "Another Shot Fired in California’s Employee Poaching War—Are There Legal Solutions to the Golden State’s Employee Mobility Dilemma?" March 6, 2019.
- Author, Lawyers Club San Diego - "California Mandates Female Representation on Public Company Boards" November 7, 2018.
- Author, Daily Journal - "Mandating Female Representation on Boards" October 12, 2018.
- Panelist, Bloomberg/IR Magazine Webinar - "Keep control of the company narrative in social media age" September 25, 2018.
- Author, Corporate Secretary - "Managing your CEO's social media habits" August 28, 2018.
- Author, Corporate Counsel - "Our CEO Is an Accused Harasser. Now What?" August 21, 2018.
- Author, Law360 - "Mintz's Jen Rubin Discusses #MeToo and the Need for an Investigative Process" August 19, 2018.
- Author, Law360 - "Expert Analysis - #MeToo Is Missing An Investigative Process" August 15, 2018.
Education
- University of Connecticut (JD)
- University of Connecticut (BA, History)
Viewpoints
Webinar Recording: Mandatory or Voluntary Workplace Vaccination – Guidance for Employers
January 15, 2021 | Webinar | By Geri Haight, Joanne Hawana, Jennifer Rubin
WEBINAR REMINDER: Mandatory or Voluntary Workplace Vaccination — Guidance for Employers
January 13, 2021 | Blog | By Geri Haight, Jennifer Rubin, Joanne Hawana
EEOC Guidance Defines Contours of Permissible Mandatory Workplace Vaccination
December 17, 2020 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin
Employer Vaccine Practices May Spur Bias, Consumer Claims
December 9, 2020 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin
A Brief Guide to California's Latest Employer COVID-19 Reporting Obligations
December 7, 2020 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin, Audrey Nguyen, Nicole Rivers
Statutory – not Shareholder – Activism: Governor Newsom Signs California’s Diversity Mandate into Law
September 30, 2020 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin
California Seeks to Expand its Board Diversity Mandate
September 9, 2020 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin
AB 5 “2.0” – California Tweaks its Independent Contractor Ban
September 8, 2020 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin, Audrey Nguyen
COVID-19, the New School Year, and Working Parents
September 8, 2020 | Blog | By Delaney Busch, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Arnold
Vaccinate or Terminate – Mandatory Vaccination As Workplace Policy
July 28, 2020 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin
News & Press
Regulating Big Tech Will Be Hard, and California Is Proving It
January 4, 2021
Employer Vaccine Practices May Spur Bias, Consumer Claims
December 8, 2020
What You Need To Know About the Moderna and Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccines
November 19, 2020
Mintz Salutes Veterans Through Pro Bono and Community Service
November 11, 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates at Work Promise Employer Headaches
November 4, 2020
Guidance for Complying With California’s New Board Diversity Mandate
October 15, 2020
INSIGHT: How to Handle Employees Who Refuse Mandatory Vaccines
August 11, 2020
What Employers Should Know About Return-To-Work Surveys
June 22, 2020
Revise Policies to Facilitate Return to Work
April 23, 2020
Gender Mandate for Corporate Boards: A Year in Review
March 17, 2020
Uncertainty Surrounds California Arbitration Bill
January 24, 2020
Managing Diverse Board Personalities to Achieve Consensus
January 23, 2020
INSIGHT: Easing Conflicts When Hiring in a Family Business
October 8, 2019
#MeToo Shows 2 Years Of Progress Toward Gender Parity
October 3, 2019
Influential Women
February 27, 2019
California Mandates Female Representation on Public Company Boards
November 7, 2018
Mandating Female Representation on Boards
October 12, 2018
Managing your CEO’s social media habits
August 28, 2018
Our CEO Is an Accused Harasser. Now What?
August 21, 2018
Expert Analysis - #MeToo Is Missing An Investigative Process
August 15, 2018
Bully Bosses: Legal Liability for Workplace Jerks
October 14, 2017
Employee Microchipping in the Brave New Workplace World
August 16, 2017
Another Chapter in California’s PAGA Saga
August 15, 2017
California Joins the Ban-the-Box Bandwagon
July 5, 2017
Mintz Attorney Jennifer Rubin Named Among 2017 Influential Women by San Diego Daily Transcript
February 22, 2017
Big Law Helps Veterans Transition to Civilian Life
November 11, 2016
Corporate Divorce Series: Do Fraudulent Credentials Annul Employment
January 14, 2016
Limit Divisive Political Discussions
January 7, 2016
Mintz’s Jennifer Rubin Named Client Service All-Star by BTI Consulting
February 11, 2013
Events
Mandatory or Voluntary Workplace Vaccination – Guidance for Employers
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ESG 101: Social Impact Investing and Board and C-Suite Diversity & Inclusion as Value-Creation Vehicles
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Preparing for the New Workplace Paradigm: A Roadmap for Employers in the Time of COVID-19
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COVID-19 and the Workplace: Guidance Regarding Employment and Benefits Issues Facing Employers Now
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