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 joined Weinberg, Roger and 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.  A second article that she and Mr. Boone co-wrote will be published in the forthcoming Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting.  As a pastime, Ms. Steele writes about current developments in the labor and immigrants’ rights movements.

Ms. Steele speaks, reads, and writes Spanish.

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