Iris Kristoff represents and works with a variety of clients on addressing and resolving employment-related compliance issues and disputes. Her practice focuses on advising and counseling California and multi-state employers on managing day-to-day employment issues, ranging from wage and hour compliance issues, preparing leave of absence related communications, risk reduction strategies for employee layoffs and terminations, designing and updating employer handbooks and policies, to advising on transactional employment matters, including employee separation agreements and negotiations. Iris also focuses on helping employers address new developments in state and federal legislation, equal employment opportunity laws and policy, and “MeToo”-related legislation.

Iris attended Emory University where she earned her law degree and her Master of Public Health, with a concentration in Policy and Management. During law school, she served as a law clerk for Administrative Law Judge Lana Layton in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Hearings Unit. Throughout law school and post-graduate school, Iris worked as a policy and research analyst at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and her work was selected for publication in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. She draws on her policy background to assist employers of all sizes with all aspects of the employment relationship, from new hire and onboarding requirements, employment contracts and arbitration agreements, to practical guidance regarding a range of employment-related policies and practices, workplace investigation issues, and employee discipline and termination issues.

Iris also conducts training and seminars on employment related issues, including sexual harassment prevention, disability and leave management, wage and hour compliance, and workplace violence prevention plans.

• Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, 2014 J.D.
• Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, M.P.H., Atlanta, Georgia, 2014
• Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, 2009 B.A.

• California

• Rising Star, Super Lawyers Northern California, 2025