| For more than six decades, Leonard Carder’s history has been inextricably tied to memorable worker struggles on the West Coast.
Two of the paramount figures in California labor law, Norman Leonard and William Carder have represented the International Longshore & Warehouse Union throughout its epic battles to bring economic security, on-the-job safety and democracy to West Coast dockworkers, defended Harry Bridges and other accused Communists
against the witch hunts of the 1950s, and represented Vietnam War conscientious objectors, the United Farm Workers and countless other labor unions. Norman and Bill epitomize what it means to devote one’s life to representing working people, a conviction that has led each of us to the practice of law.
 In the 1980s, Leonard Carder grew to include partners
Richard Zuckerman and Robert Remar. In 1991, Sanford Nathan,
Matthew Ross and Victoria Chin, formerly partners at Neyhart,
Anderson, Nussbaum, Reilly & Freitas, joined the firm,
expanding our practice to include labor unions representing
hotel and restaurant workers, transit workers, construction
workers and many others. In 1994, Lynn Rossman Faris, who
then served as in-house counsel for Operating Engineers Local
3, joined Leonard Carder, and since that time Leonard Carder
has continued to expand in the area of individual employee
rights and class-action litigation. Partners Beth Ross,
Margot Rosenberg, Philip Monrad, Peter Saltzman, Ari Krantz,
Chris Hwang, Shawn Groff and Eleanor Morton all began as
associates with the firm, and we are pleased to have four
talented associate attorneys -- Kate Hallward, Jacob Rukeyser,
Phil Thomas and Jennifer Keating.
Today, our clients include international and local unions representing longshore and maritime workers, hotel and restaurant workers, food and commercial workers, transit workers, professional and clerical employees in the private and public sectors, and workers in the construction trades. We also represent employees
suing on behalf of themselves and similarly aggrieved classes of employees under federal and state employment laws, and we are counsel to dozens of pension, health and other employee benefit plans covering union workers, retirees and their dependents.
In each of our Practice Areas, our mission is to provide the highest quality legal representation while remaining cognizant of the practical problems of our clients and the high costs of legal representation. We believe that our work reflects not only the quality of our legal skills,
but also our deep commitment to our clients, their objectives and interests.
As a convenience to our clients, Leonard Carder operates out of two offices, one in San Francisco (in the Harry Bridges Building) and the other in downtown Oakland.
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