Greenberg Traurig LLP

Labor & Employment

Chair, Northern California

Charles S. Birenbaum serves as the firm’s Chair of Northern California and Co-Chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s Labor-Management Relations group. Chuck is an experienced labor and employment attorney who focuses his practice on traditional labor and employment law matters, and has wide-ranging experience litigating in state and federal courts as well as various administrative agencies. He has testified on proposed legislation impacting entire industries before state legislative committees, and has interfaced and negotiated with labor organizations, politicians, regulators, and industry leaders to resolve complex issues for his clients in the health care, energy, construction and other industries.

ConcentrationsLabor and employment class actionsTraditional labor lawAppellate advocacyEmployment law advice, counseling and trainingUnfair competition, restrictive covenants and trade secrets

CapabilitiesLabor & Employment ERISA & Employee Benefits Litigation Trade Secrets

Admission to PracticeCalifornia

English

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1982 B.A., Government, with honors, Oberlin College, 1979