DAVID BORGEN
dborgen@gdblegal.com
David Borgen originally joined the firm in 1990 to litigate the Stage Two “mini-trials” in a class action on behalf of women who were denied or deterred from positions as State Farm insurance sales agents.
Kraszewski v. State Farm General Ins. Co., 30 FEP 197 (N.D.Cal. 1985). After that, he stuck around and litigated a series of gender discrimination class actions in chain stores, including
Butler, et al. v. Home Depot, Inc., 70 FEP 51 (N.D.Cal. 1996) (class action on behalf of women employees in and applicants to Home Depot Stores in its Western Division). After that, he chose to focus his practice on wage and hour (overtime) class and collective actions, beginning with
Harrison v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, 1998 WL 422169 (M.D. Fla. 1998) (certified as a nationwide FLSA collective action). He is on the Editorial Board for the upcoming new edition of the BNA Fair Labor Standards Act treatise and he is the immediate past Employee Co-Chair of the ABA’s Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee. He is also a Senior Editor of the BNA treatise Wage and Hour Laws: A State by State Survey (2005).
EDUCATION
- University of California, Hastings College of Law, J.D., 1981 (Order of the Coif)
- University of Iowa, M.A., 1976; Rutgers College, B.A., 1974
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
- California, 1981
- U.S. District Courts: Northern, Eastern, Central, & Southern Districts of CA
- U.S. Court of Appeals: Second, Third, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits
AWARDS
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Wood/Whyte), 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Selected as “SuperLawyer” in the Northern California Super Lawyers Magazine (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
- National Lawyers Guild (NLG) San Francisco Chapter’s “Champion of Justice” award (April 5, 2008)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Fellow (2004 - present)
- American Bar Association (ABA): Labor and Employment Section, Co-chair, Committee on Federal Labor Standards Legislation (2003 – 2007); Co-chair, Fair Labor Standards Act Sub-Committee (2000 – 2004); National Programs Subcommittee, Co-chair (2007-2008); CLE/Institutes and meetings Co-chair (2009-2010).
- State Bar of California: Labor and Employment Section
- National Employment Law Project’s (NELP), National Wage and Hour Clearinghouse Advisory Board (2008 - present)
- National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) – Wage and Hour Committee Co-Chair
- National Lawyers Guild (NLG), 1978-2010
PRIOR EMPLOYMENT
- Counsel for Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO (1981-1990)
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