Attorneys
Leslie V. Freeman
AssociateEmail: lfreeman@unioncounsel.net
Telephone: 916-443-6600
Education:
Washington University School of Law, St. Louis 1981
University of California, Berkeley 1976
Leslie Freeman joined Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 2008. She is licensed to practice law in California and Missouri.
Ms. Freeman represents our northern California union clients in the public and private sector. She works to enforce the employment rights of unions and individuals through wage and hour, discrimination, labor speech, public records act and other civil litigation in state and federal court. She appears in disciplinary and contract interpretation arbitrations, unfair labor practice and representation matters before PERB and the NLRB, and in administrative hearings before state and federal agencies.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Freeman practiced law in St. Louis, Missouri where she represented individuals and unions in labor and employment matters and advocated for domestic violence victims in family law matters. She was a private attorney, managing attorney for Legal Aid of Eastern Missouri, and senior trial attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Freeman litigated individual and class race, gender, national origin, and age discrimination cases in the federal courts of Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, and North Carolina. She served as executive director for the Federal Eighth Circuit Gender Fairness Task Force and the State of Missouri Task Force on Gender and Justice and as an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis University Law School, and the University of Missouri – St. Louis.
Publications:
Understanding the Judicial Role in Addressing Gender Bias:
A View from the Eighth Circuit Federal Court System,
Lonsway, Freeman, Cortina, Magley and Fitzgerald
27 Law & Social Inquiry 2 at 205 (Spring 2002)
What’s Gender Got to Do With It? Incivility in the Federal Courts,
Cortina, Lonsway, Magley, Freeman, Collinsworth, Hunter and Fitzgerald
27 LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY 2 at 235 (Spring 2002)
Judicial Interventions in the Federal Court System:
Perceptions of Attorneys and Judges,
Lonsway, Collinsworth, Cortina, Fitzgerald, Freeman and Magley
American Bar Foundation Working Paper #9721 (1998)
Report of the Eighth Circuit Gender Fairness Task Force,
31 CREIGHTON LAW REVIEW 1 (December 1997) (Executive Director and co-author)
Report of the Missouri Task Force on Gender and Justice,
58 MISSOURI LAW REVIEW 486 (Summer 1993) (Executive Director and co-author)
Innovations in Compliance: Community-Based Monitoring of Affirmative Action,
10 CIVIL RIGHTS DIGEST 21 (Summer 1978)
Practice Areas:
Labor Arbitrations and Collective Bargaining Negotiations
Class Actions and Wage and Hour Litigation
Employment Discrimination
Public Sector Labor Relations
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