Zach Angulo joined Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 2021 as an associate after receiving his juris doctor from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law. He primarily represents employee benefit trust funds and unions.

Mr. Angulo’s employee benefits practice spans the entire life cycle of multiemployer and single-employer benefit trust funds, from trust fund establishment to plan terminations and mergers. As ERISA compliance counsel, he advises clients on matters such as plan design, benefit appeals, federal audits and investigations, plan qualification under the Internal Revenue Code, cybersecurity and security incident response, and prudent investment arrangements. Mr. Angulo also litigates trust fund collections cases.

Mr. Angulo’s labor law practice extends to both public-sector and private-sector unions and campaigns. He regularly advises labor organizations on issues such as nascent campaign strategies, union governance and crisis management, LMRDA compliance, and collective bargaining. He also advises unions in their capacity as employers on matters such as wage-and-hour legal compliance, workplace investigations, and staff union negotiations. He has advocated for unions organizing in areas as diverse as the construction and building trades, healthcare, higher education, the tech sector, and the legislative branch.

Additionally, Mr. Angulo assists nonprofit organizations obtain tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code and advises them on matters such as internal governance, fundraising strategies, and legislative reform.

He is licensed to practice law in California and holds CIPP/US and CompTIA Security+ certifications.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Angulo served as a Peggy Browning Fellow at the UAW International Union’s headquarters at Solidarity House and as a law clerk for Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld. At U.C. Berkeley, he became Executive Editor of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law and Leader of the Berkeley Law and Organizing Collective. He won the Thelen Marrin Award for Best Published Student Article in Class for his article, “The NLRB and Graduate-Worker Employee Status: Past, Present, and Future.”

Prior to his legal education and practice, Mr. Angulo earned his B.A. in History at Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College and his M.A. in History from Northwestern University.