Bruce Harland is a shareholder who joined Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 2003. His practice focuses primarily on representing and defending labor unions and workers in litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies as well as in labor arbitrations. Mr. Harland also counsels union clients on a wide variety of matters relating to organizing, representation, contract enforcement, collective bargaining, internal governance issues and political initiatives. Mr. Harland specializes in the representation of unions who represent healthcare workers.

Mr. Harland received his juris doctor from the Rutgers-Newark School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Harland received a Peggy Browning Fellowship to clerk with the Service Employees International Union. Mr. Harland also served as the managing editor of the Rutgers Race and Law Review.

Prior to law school, Mr. Harland worked as a union organizer. As an organizer, Mr. Harland became the subject of a D.C. Circuit Court opinion concerning whether Stanford University Medical Center unlawfully violated the National Labor Relations Act when it evicted him from a bench on the Medical Center’s property on grounds that Mr. Harland violated the Medical Center’s no-solicitation policy by sitting on the bench and talking with workers about organizing a union. In its opinion, the D.C. Circuit described Mr. Harland as “a self-confessed serial violator of Stanford’s solicitation and distribution rules.” Stanford Hospital v. National Labor Relations Board, 325 F.3d 334, 345-36 (D.C. Cir. 2003). A more proper description of Mr. Harland would have simply been: an organizer.

Mr. Harland regularly speaks at labor and employment conferences, particularly on issues involving healthcare workers and their unions. In 2017, the Daily Journal named Mr. Harland a Top Labor & Employer Lawyer.