Careers

Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld represents unions and their members in the public and private sectors and has the expertise necessary to protect Labor’s rights to family-sustaining wages, good health and a dignified retirement. We have offices in Emeryville, Sacramento, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Our clients include international and local unions representing virtually every unionized sector. We are looking for attorneys who are committed to the principle that working people are entitled to the best of legal representation in an economy and social system that was not designed with them in mind.

About the Firm

Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld (WRR) is the largest law firm in the country dedicated to representing unions, working people, and employee benefit plans. At WRR, we value diversity among our employees because we represent labor unions and their diverse members in both the public and private sectors. WRR has developed expertise necessary to protect Labor’s rights to health benefits and a dignified retirement. The firm has offices in Emeryville, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, California, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Clients include international, state-level, and local unions representing virtually every unionized sector.

WRR strives for work-life balance and offers an excellent benefits package including pension, medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible spending, and retirement savings plans.

Proof of the COVID-19 vaccine and booster, or eligibility for a religious or medical exemption, is required to work for our firm.

Open Positions

Weinberg Roger & Rosenfeld

WRR seeks attorneys to represent Unions in traditional labor and employee benefits work.  The firm believes fundamentally that it is crucial to ensure that Unions—the members they represent, and by extension their families and communities—can access exceptional legal advocates who will fight for their dignity at work.  We seek likeminded candidates.  For more information about our firm, find us at: https://www.unioncounsel.net/about-us

Open positions:

  1. Emeryville, LA or Sacramento based Attorney – (3+ Years Experience) employee benefits and/or traditional labor focus

Job duties for the positions include:

  • Providing general and legal advice to the firm’s diverse Union clients.

  • Handling all stages of litigation, which may include wage and hour class actions, harassment and discrimination litigation, and employee benefits litigation.    

  • Representing Unions at grievance arbitration hearings and before various administrative agencies, such as the National Labor Relations Board or the Public Employee Relations Board

  • Giving Union staff and steward trainings.

  • The Employee Benefits Focus Attorney will spend the majority of their time providing general and legal advice to the firm’s diverse union and employee benefit plan clients, attending Trust Fund client meetings, handling ERISA related litigation (including enforcement of contribution obligations, subrogation, benefit denial and withdrawal liability cases), and defending the firm’s employee benefit plan and union clients in administrative hearings and in court.

Dedication to the labor movement, strong writing and oral advocacy skills, organization and time management are very important.  Applicants should be detail-oriented and possess exemplary research, writing and analytical skills.  Spanish language skills and/or real estate experience is a plus.  The candidate should be a motivated self-starter with superb judgment and communication skills, and must have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.  The positions require occasional evening or weekend work depending on client events or needs.  Candidates must be licensed and in good standing in California.

WRR associates are paid on a pay step scale based on years of experience performing relevant work.  The salary range for the open positions is $118,000.00 - $148,000.00, plus additional benefits, including: participation in a “defined benefit” pension plan; annual employer 401(k) contribution equal to 5% of salary; 100% employer paid premiums for health, dental and vision insurance for the employee and all eligible dependents; group life and AD&D insurance; group Long-Term Disability insurance; employer provided cell phone and laptop; paid holidays; commuter benefits; dependent care benefits; and a flexible spending account (FSA).  WRR also offers associates an option to participate in a tax-free student loan assistance program.  Associates are eligible for bonuses.

To Apply:
Send a cover letter specifying the position(s) for which you are applying and resume to: Jennifer Calhoun, JCalhoun@unioncounsel.net.

To Apply:
Send a cover letter specifying the position(s) for which you are applying and resume, one writing sample, and two references to: Jennifer Calhoun, , JCalhoun@unioncounsel.net.