Robert A. Steinberg, Esq.
Employment
Mr. Steinberg’s mediation practice focuses on business-related cases.
He is known for his technical legal expertise, his innovative solutions
to difficult business disputes, and his insight into parties’
motivations.
Employment Experience
As a practicing attorney, Mr. Steinberg had extensive experience with
the following employment issues:
• Hiring and termination of executive employees, including negotiating
and drafting the terms of such arrangements with both executives and
boards of directors.
• Noncompetition and trade secret disputes with departing executives and
other employees.
• Development of executive compensation plans, including cash and equity
incentive plans, qualified and non-qualified stock option plans, and
stock bonus and purchase plans.
• The employee-independent contractor distinction and the various tests
for making this determination.
• ERISA employee benefit plans, including the drafting of such plans and
issues regarding fiduciary obligations (including self-dealing and plan
diversification) and federal preemption.
Representative Employment Cases
• Technology company sued former employees who allegedly stole customer
lists, technical data and other confidential information.
• Two senior employees sued company and founder for wrongful termination
and securities fraud based on promised equity compensation.
• Bank fired its president for breach of fiduciary duties of care and
loyalty with respect to certain loans to arguably related parties.
President claimed wrongful termination.
• Former lead guitarist claimed he was partner of band founder rather
than employee.
• Founder of environmental services company sued directors for breach of
fiduciary duty of care, unwarranted dilution of stock interest, and
wrongful termination.
• A vendor to an entertainment company sued the vendor’s former employee
and the entertainment company for unfair competition after the
entertainment company replaced the vendor with the former employee’s
company.
Career Highlights
• Mr. Steinberg has successfully resolved hundreds of mediated cases. In
his twenty-five year career as a corporate, securities and tax lawyer
and as a litigator, Mr. Steinberg handled billions of dollars in
transactions and obtained tens of millions of dollars in tax refunds.
• As partner-in-charge of the Los Angeles office of an international law
firm, Mr. Steinberg increased annual distributable income per partner by
more than $300,000 in fewer than four years.
• 150 of Mr. Steinberg’s partners honored him with an award for
“Outstanding Teamwork and Collegiality.”
• Mr. Steinberg has extensive experience with multinational and
multicultural matters.
Mr. Steinberg has published more than fifty
articles and presented more
than thirty seminars on
settlement advocacy, case evaluation, negotiation strategy and tactics,
and mediation. He received his undergraduate degree from the University
of Michigan (Honors in English), his law degree from Duke University,
and his Masters of Law (in Taxation) degree from New York University.
Mr. Steinberg’s full resume and references can be reviewed
here.
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