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Berman and Smiles join Seyfarth Shaw's Labor & Employment department

By Richard Binder

Seyfarth Shaw announced today that Jeffrey A. Berman and Joan E. Smiles have joined the firm in the Los Angeles office. Berman is a partner in the Labor & Employment department, and Smiles is of counsel.

Berman?s practice spans traditional labor work and employment litigation, including a significant amount of complex, representative and class actions under both state and federal law. Berman has represented employers in nearly all of the National Labor Relations Board?s regional offices in the Western United States, as well as before state and federal trial and appellate courts. He is an alumnus of the University of California at Santa Barbara where he earned his B.A. (with honors), and he earned his J.D. at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law.

Smiles has represented clients in a broad range of disputes before state and federal courts involving employment matters. Her employment litigation experience includes: actions for discrimination, including but not limited to disability discrimination, age discrimination and sexual harassment, under both the Fair Employment and Housing Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Smiles earned her B.A. from Vassar College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She earned her J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center where she was Order of the Coif. In addition, Smiles was a Fulbright Graduate Fellow.

Both come to the firm from Sidley Austin.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 16, 2010 (boomark / email).