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title: Tanisha Shafer
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# Tanisha Shafer

Tanisha Shafer, a former SFTLA Trial Advocacy Fellow, received her J.D. from Santa Clara Law in May 2011. She served as a senior editor on the Santa Clara Law Review and as an associate editor on the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Journal. She is a member of the SFTLA, the Black Law Students Association, and the John M. Langston Bar Association. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a major in Linguistics and emphasis on Sociology.

### Articles written by this author:

## [Spotting FLSA & California overtime-exemption violations](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2016-february/spotting-flsa-california-overtime-exemption-violations "Spotting FLSA & California overtime-exemption violations")

Who is classified as exempt from overtime and how to spot misclassification by employers

[Jahan C. Sagafi](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/jahan-c-sagafi "Jahan C. Sagafi")
[Tanisha Shafer](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/tanisha-shafer "Tanisha Shafer")

[2016 February](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2016-february)