ROBERTA L. STEELE

rsteele@gdblegal.com

Roberta Steele joined Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian as an associate in 1996 and became a partner in 2005.  She concentrates her practice in the areas of employment discrimination and wage and hour class and collective actions.  She is a frequent lecturer and panelist on subjects relating to class and collective actions, litigation practice and procedure, and the fair employment and wage and hour laws.

EDUCATION

• Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., 1993
• University of Massachusetts at Boston, B.A., English, summa cum laude, 1990

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

• California, 1997; Ohio, 1993 (inactive status)
• U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Third, Sixth and Ninth Circuits
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of California and the Northern District of Ohio

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Board member, Equal Rights Advocates, 2008-present
• Plaintiffs’ Co-Chair, Regional Programs Committee, 2006-present
• Section of Labor & Employment Law, American Bar Association
• Plaintiffs’ Co-Chair, Class and Complex Litigation Subcommittee, 2002-present
• Employment Rights and Responsibilities Committee
• Volunteer Supervising Attorney, Workers’ Rights Clinic, 1998-present
• Employment Law Center, San Francisco, CA

PRIOR EMPLOYMENT

• Stege, Hickman & Lowder, Co., L.P.A., Cleveland, OH, associate, 1993-1996

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