Brendan G. Dolan
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Chair, West Coast Labor and Employment Practice Area275 Battery Street Suite 2464 San Francisco, California 94111
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Services
- Accounting
- Affirmative Action & OFCCP Compliance
- Benefits Claims Litigation
- Collective Bargaining
- Employee Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans
- Employment
- Employment Class Action Defense
- Employment Law Training
- Employment Litigation and Avoidance
- Equal Opportunity/Discrimination Law
- Executive Compensation
- Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits
- Financial Services
- Government Contracts
- Grievance Processing and Arbitration
- Health Care
- Higher Education
- Information Technology
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- International Employment Law
- Labor Relations
- Media & Entertainment
- NLRB Investigations and ULPs
- Real Estate Industry
- Restrictive Covenants & Trade Secrets
- Strikes and Corporate Campaigns
- Trade & Professional Associations
- Transportation
- Union Organizing Response
- Wage & Hour Compliance
- Workplace Audits
- Workplace Counseling and Policies
Brendan G. Dolan
Shareholder
Chair, West Coast Labor and Employment Practice AreaBrendan is a member of the Labor and Employment group and serves as Administrative Shareholder of the firm's San Francisco office. He has 30 years of experience representing employers in a wide range of labor and employment law matters encompassing both litigation and counseling.
He has brought dozens of successful motions for summary judgment, has extensive injunction litigation experience, has tried cases and handled appeals in the state and federal courts, and has arbitrated a wide variety of employment disputes. He has defended employers in individual, multi-plaintiff and class litigation involving alleged discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour violations, trade secret misappropriation, noncompetes and employee benefits. Among clients Brendan has represented in litigation are Oracle Corporation, Chevron, Siemens, Hearst Corporation and Cisco Systems.
He has also prosecuted cases on behalf of individual employers and industry groups challenging government regulation affecting the employment relationship. One example is the successful ERISA preemption-based challenge to the San Francisco domestic partner benefits ordinance in which Brendan represented the US airline industry trade organization and 35 individual airlines.
Brendan has also handled National Labor Relations Board cases, collective bargaining negotiations, strike planning and labor arbitrations.
Brendan counsels employers on myriad labor and employment issues encompassing virtually every facet of the employment relationship.
Brendan has also represented senior executives in employment agreement and severance negotiations and disputes.
Brendan has been named in The Best Lawyers in America over several years and is listed in the 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020 editions. The Legal 500 United States guide recommended Brendan in the Labor and Employment—Labor and Employment Disputes (including collective actions): Defense category in 2018 and 2019.
He is a 1986 honors graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law where he was Managing Editor of the Law Review, member of the McAuliffe Honor Society, and recipient of American Jurisprudence Awards in Corporations, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Labor Law, and of the USF Law School Retention Scholarship. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981.
Brendan G. Dolan
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Chair, West Coast Labor and Employment Practice AreaEducation
- University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D., 1986, cum laude
- University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1981
Brendan G. Dolan
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Chair, West Coast Labor and Employment Practice AreaBar Admissions
- California, 1986
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1988
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 1987
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1987
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 2017
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1994
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 2019
Affiliations
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Member, State Bar of California, Labor and Employment Law Section
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Member, San Francisco Bar Association
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Member, American Bar Association, Sections of Litigation & Labor and Employment
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Publications
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May 31, 2018 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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December 12, 2016 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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December 2016 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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September 2016 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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June 2016 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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March 2016 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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March 2016 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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December 2015 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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June 2015 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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January 2015 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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December 2014 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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September 2014 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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June 2014 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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June 2014 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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June 2014 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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March 2014 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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December 2013 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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December 2013 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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September 2013 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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Brendan G. Dolan
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News
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August 9, 2019 | Press Release
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June 5, 2018 | Press Release
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June 2, 2017 | Press Release
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April 2013 | Press Release
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Past Events
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October 30, 2018 | Webinar
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June 19, 2018 | Webinar
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October 26, 2017 | Webinar
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September 22, 2016 | Seminar
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October 06, 2015 | Seminar
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