Labor & Employment Attorneys Serving Working People
For over 70 years, labor unions and workers have trusted Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers to help achieve their worker-led vision of the future in California and throughout the U.S. In addition, many ERISA plans have historically relied on Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers to provide advice about their legal and fiduciary obligations and to ensure that the benefits and vested rights of hardworking people are protected.
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Our practice is varied, serving the needs of clients in a broad range of legal and litigation matters. We are a full-service law firm of former organizers, labor union strategists, and policy experts dedicated to movement building through strategic organizing, comprehensive campaigning, and legislative and political advocacy.
Our lawyers include the children of immigrants, first-generation college graduates, working mothers, and members of union households. This diversity of experience strengthens our work and feeds our passion for social justice.
Labor Unions
Our lawyers have extensive experience in traditional labor law. We practice before the NLRB, California PERB, OSHA and Cal/OSHA, the DOL, the DLSE, the EEOC, and the DFEH. We handle representation elections, negotiate and draft language in first contracts, and advise clients on day-to-day legal strategy. We handle high-impact litigation in state and federal courts on behalf of labor unions as plaintiffs and defendants. This litigation experience has also yielded significant recoveries at arbitration.
There are times when the law appears to deny workers the justice they deserve—or, even worse, to prevent them from organizing to obtain it. Working with our clients we have overcome these obstacles by using local and state legislation, labor peace agreements, and other strategies to expand workers' rights.
Employment Law for Individuals
We have vast experience representing individual workers, in areas such as wage and hour claims, discrimination and harassment complaints, whistleblower protections, wrongful discharge lawsuits and WARN Act claims. We represent individuals in negotiating severance agreements and employment contracts. We also assist individuals during work-related investigations and disciplinary proceedings.
CONTACT
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OUR ADDRESS
888 W. 6th Street, 12th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90017
(323) 655-4700
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