Rothner, Segall & Greenstone represents labor unions, labor-management trust funds, and employees with wage & hour and civil rights claims. Time permitting, we take on free speech, taxpayer, and open government cases.
Guiding our work is the philosophy that our technical skills are useful not as an end in themselves but as a means to promote justice, equity, and peace.
We believe that our clients, from rank-and-file low wage workers, to highly-paid professionals, to union leaders and staff, deserve our best efforts, our full creativity, and complete information about the matters we undertake on their behalf.
We respect the right of our clients to make their own judgments, and we view our role as informing those judgments by providing an array of options and discussing the advantages, disadvantages, and consequences of each. Our goals are both to help our clients accomplish a useful outcome and to leave them with an enhanced ability to make strategic and tactical judgments.
Rothner, Segall & Greenstone represents public and private-sector labor unions and employees. Our firm is made up of devoted labor-movement lawyers who are unrelenting advocates for justice, equity, and workers’ rights.
Our firm takes great pride in giving summer law clerks work opportunities that mirror the daily work done by our partners and associates while providing exposure to the wide variety of issues that arise in the labor and employment field. A summer law clerk can expect to take on brief writing, assist with arbitrations, meet with clients, and work on litigation in state court, federal court, and various administrative agencies. Summer law clerks may also have the opportunity to learn about and assist with active organizing campaigns for our union clients.
Requirements: We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. Demonstrated interest or experience in the labor movement or other social justice movements is strongly preferred but not required. While we will give special consideration to second-year law students and students who have taken labor or employment law courses, we will consider all applicants.
Application Requirements: Please send a cover letter, resume, law school transcript and writing sample.
Salary: $6250 per month
Application Deadline: We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis but ask that all applications be submitted by September 25, 2023.
Please submit application requirements to hiring@rsglabor.com.