Alan Robert Berkowitz

After 40 years as a leading domestic and international labor and employment litigator and part-time mediator, Alan Berkowitz retired as a partner from Bingham McCutchen to become a full-time Mediator. As a practicing labor and employment lawyer he tried over 50 cases in State and Federal courts and administrative agencies both on behalf of Defendants and Plaintiffs. As a mediator for the past 25 years Mr. Berkowitz has successfully resolved hundreds of cases involving all type of employment matters including discrimination, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, wage & hour class-actions (many of which were “seven to eight figure” settlements), PAGA and whistleblower cases. He has been profiled in by the Daily Journal as both a litigator (Death of a Salesmen’s Case, Verdicts and Settlements, Jan. 2001),and mediator ( Evaporating Emotions, Verdicts & Settlements, Jan. 24, 2014) and by the Recorder ( Bingham Partner Mixes representation with Mediation, Court Watch July 31, 2007).

Mr. Berkowitz is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and has been listed as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” and a “Leading Labor and Employment Lawyer” by Chambers USA. In addition, he is listed as a Northern California “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics and San Francisco magazines and as one of the “Top Lawyers of Northern California” and one of “America’s Most Honored Professionals.”  He has been nominated by his peers and selected as one of the world’s leading practitioners of international labor and employment law and has been listed in the international Who’s Who of Management, Labour and Employment Lawyers.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Berkowitz worked at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the Office of the General Counsel, Regional Advice Branch in Washington, D.C. and as a trial specialist and supervisory attorney in the NLRB’s Regional Office in San Francisco. He was appointed Regional Attorney of the Oakland Regional Office of the NLRB where, as the chief legal officer, he was responsible for managing a staff of 15-20 attorneys and a litigation calendar averaging 120 cases.

Before joining Bingham McCutchen (formerly McCutchen, Doyle Brown and Enerson) Mr. Berkowitz was a partner and managing partner in Schachter, Kristoff, Orenstein and Berkowitz, a leading labor and employment firm with offices in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Sacramento.