Katie Fiester

Katie Fiester is a Partner at Hunter Pyle Law.

Katie Fiester joined Hunter Pyle Law in 2019. She became a Partner in 2024. She is a zealous and strategic advocate for workers who face wage and hour, retaliation, harassment, discrimination, and other workplace violations. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Staff Attorney at Legal Aid at Work, a non-profit organization in San Francisco, where she represented clients with wage and hour and retaliation claims before the California Labor Commissioner and in individual, multi-plaintiff, and class action cases in state and federal court. She also advocated for legislative reform and served hundreds of clients to recover unpaid wages at semi-monthly Wage Claim Clinics held at the California Labor Commissioner offices in San Francisco and Oakland.

Ms. Fiester obtained her J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) in 2014. While in law school, she completed an externship with Legal Aid at Work and served low-wage workers through its Workers’ Rights Clinics. Ms. Fiester also worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Michael J. Seng (Ret.) United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of California in Yosemite National Park and as a Government Officer for the United States Attorneys’ Office. Before law school, Ms. Fiester worked as a legal assistant with JusticeCorps, where she facilitated equal justice and fairness for pro se litigants.

Super Lawyers recognized Ms. Fiester as a “Rising Star” in 2023 and 2024.