Altshuler Berzon LLP Partner Named a “Top 100” California Attorney

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Michael Rubin honored for fifth year in a row

September 15, 2021 – California’s legal newspaper, the “Daily Journal,” today named Altshuler Berzon LLP partner Michael Rubin as one of California’s “Top 100 Attorneys.” This is the fifth straight year the “Daily Journal” has named Michael to the Top 100, and it has regularly named him one of California’s “Top 75 Labor and Employment Attorneys” as well.

The published profile focused on Michael’s work this past year on two major lawsuits seeking to reform California’s broken unemployment insurance system: In re Bank of America California Unemployment Benefits Litigation, MDL Case No. 21-MD-02992-LAB-MSB, and Center for Workers’ Rights v. Employment Development Department, Alameda County Superior Ct. No. RG21106525.

In the Bank of America case, Altshuler Berzon LLP attorneys Michael Rubin, Stacey Leyton, Connie Chan, and Matt Murray, in conjunction with co-counsel at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, obtained a preliminary injunction requiring the Bank to cease freezing the UI accounts of hundreds of thousands of Californians who had complained to the Bank about unauthorized transactions made on their Bank-issued UI benefit debit card accounts. In the EDD case, Altshuler Berzon attorneys Michael Rubin and Amanda Lynch, in conjunction with co-counsel at the Center for Workers’ Rights, negotiated a settlement that requires EDD to promptly pay UI benefits to 300,000 UI claimants in “continuing claims” status whose UI payments had been delayed, often for months, as a result of unjustified administrative delays.

Altshuler Berzon LLP Welcomes 2021 Fall Law Clerks

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Altshuler Berzon LLP is pleased to welcome two 2021 Fall Law Clerks: Madelyn O’Kelley-Bangsberg (Northeastern University School of Law) and Tiffany Deguzman (University of California, Berkeley, School of Law). We also congratulate Tiffany on accepting post-graduation judicial clerkships with Judge Ronald M. Gould of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and with Judge Dolly M. Gee of the Central District of California.

The law firm typically hires five or six summer associates each year, as well as school-year law clerks on a case-by-case basis. Information about recruiting is available by clicking here.