Lori Aquino
Sandra Rae Benson
Manuel A. Boigues
W. Daniel Boone
Manjari Chawla
Ezekiel D. Carder
Alan Crowley
Patricia Davis
Lisl Duncan
Nina Fendel
Theodore Franklin
Leslie V. Freeman
Ana Gallegos
Patricia M. Gates
Matthew Gauger
Yuri Gottesman
Bruce Harland
Vin Harrington
Kristina L. Hillman
Barry Hinkle
Ashley K. Ikeda
Linda Baldwin Jones
Conchita Lozano-Batista
Jannah V. Manansala
Jordan Mazur
Blythe Mickelson
Roberta Perkins
Nicole Phillips
Gary Provencher
Christian L. Raisner
Emily P. Rich
David A. Rosenfeld
Antonio Ruiz
James M. Rutkowski
Sharon Seidenstein
Caren P. Sencer
William A. Sokol
Kerianne Steele
Stewart Weinberg
James J. Wesser
Jacob J. White
Anne I. Yen
Kristina M. Zinnen

Kerianne Steele
Associate

Email: ksteele@unioncounsel.net
Telephone: 510-337-1001, ext. 161

Education:
University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law, 2007, J.D.
Hampshire College, 2001, B.A.

Kerianne Steele began working as an Associate with Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 2007. Ms. Steele also worked as a law clerk for the firm while she was a law student. She received her undergraduate degree in Labor Studies from Hampshire College and her J.D. from the University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in California and Nevada.

Prior to attending law school, Ms. Steele was actively involved in innovative efforts to organize low-wage workers in the Los Angeles-area hospitality industry. Ms. Steele thereafter worked in San Francisco as a legal secretary in the field of immigration law.

During law school, Ms. Steele served as an officer of the campus chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and co-founded the King Hall Labor & Employment Law Committee. Concurrently, as a head steward of her Union, she helped organize fellow academic student employees and assisted another campus Union in its effort to eliminate the unjust subcontracting-out of dining service work. In 2006, Ms. Steele participated in the Robert F. Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court competition in New York.

Ms. Steele and W. Daniel Boone co-authored an article on labor arbitration that was published in the Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators. (Workplace Violence: When Is A Threat a Threat? Threats of Violence in the Workplace: The Union Perspective, Arbitration 2005: The Evolving World of Work, Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators (BNA, Washington, DC, Eds. Paul F. Gerhart and Stephen F. Befort, 2006).) She and Mr. Boone co-wrote a second article that was published in the Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting. (How to Have an Arbitration Hearing in One Day or Less: Whatever Happened to the One-Day Arbitration? Expedited Arbitration Procedures as an Effective Method for Combating Delay, Increased Cost, and Formality in Labor Arbitration, Arbitration 2007: Workplace Justice for a Changing Environment, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators (BNA, Arlington, VA, Eds. Stephen F. Befort and Patrick Halter, 2008).) Ms. Steele is a contributing author to the California Labor & Employment Law Review, the official publication of the State Bar of California Labor and Employment Section.

Ms. Steele is functionally fluent in Spanish.

Practice areas:

Labor Arbitrations and Collective Bargaining Negotiations
Public Sector
Class Actions and Wage and Hour Litigation
Employment Discrimination