Bryan Jeffrey Schwartz
- Biography
Bryan Schwartz is an Oakland, California-based attorney dedicated to helping employees protect their rights in the workplace. He has fought prohibited discrimination, retaliation, and harassment, obtained reasonable accommodations for disabled employees, vindicated whistleblowers’ rights, and ensured that corporations pay workers all wages they are owed. He has successfully litigated individual and class action complaints nationwide, helping to recover millions of dollars for thousands of employees, forcing corporations and Government agencies to change their practices and punish wrongdoers.
Bryan Schwartz is also one of the few Bay Area-based attorneys with extensive experience representing Federal employees in their unique Merit Systems Protection Board and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints.
- Practice Areas
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Fees
- Free Consultation
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Credit Cards Accepted
Visa, Mastercard - Contingent Fees
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Representation available on a contingency, hourly, and retainer basis.
- Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- California
- Since 2000
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- Languages
- Portuguese:
Spoken - Spanish:
Spoken, Written
- Professional Experience
- Managing Attorney, San Francisco office
- Nichols Kaster, LLP
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2006 –
2008
- Associate
- Passman & Kaplan, PC
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2003 –
2006
- Federal Judicial Law Clerk
- Hon. Franklin Van Antwerpen
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2001 –
2002
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- J.D. (2000)
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1997
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2000 - Honors: High Honors, Employment Discrimination Law
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- Cornell University
- B.A. (1994) | Government, English
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1990
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1994 - Honors: Magna Cum Laude
- Activities: President, Cornell University Student Assembly
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- Awards
- Rising Star
- Superlawyers
- 2012
- Rising Star
- Superlawyers
- 2011
- Professional Associations
- FAIR Foundation
- Secretary
- Current
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- National Employment Lawyers Association
- Member
- Current
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- California Employment Lawyers Association
- Co-Chair, Diversity Committee
- Current
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- California Bar, Employment and Labor Law Section
- Executive Committee
- Current
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- District of Columbia Bar
- Member
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2003 –
Current -
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California State Bar
 # 209903
- Member
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2000 –
Current -
- Publications
- The Unclean Hands and After-Acquired Evidence Defenses
- California Labor and Employment Law Review
- September, 2012
- Wage-and-hour class actions: The sky is falling (or is it?) – After Brinker and Duran, what lies ahead?
- Plaintiff Magazine
- September, 2012
- Employees Win a “Great Victory” in the Long-Awaited Brinker Meal and Rest Period Decision
- California Employment Lawyers Association Bulletin
- April, 2012
- How to win court approval for your class action settlement: Learn to avoid delays that occur if the court rejects or requires modification of your settlement
- Plaintiff Magazine
- April, 2010
- “In the Name of Security, Insecurity: The Trend to Diminish Employee Rights”
- The Labor Lawyer, American Bar Association
- 2005
- Federal Employees Legal Survival Guide (2d Ed.)
- Workplace Fairness
- 2005
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