Arthur F. "Art" Silbergeld

Arthur Silbergeld is a partner in Dickstein Shapiro’s Employment Practice. He has defended employers in over 100 trials in federal and state court and arbitrations, including trials of wage class actions, and he is annually identified as one of the top employment litigators in California. Mr. Silbergeld has defended numerous employers in federal and state bench and jury trials in class action and individual claims. Mr. Silbergeld advises major and midsize companies on all aspects of wage and hour, equal opportunity employment, wrongful termination, harassment, disability, labor relations, and occupational safety and health matters as well as drug testing, mergers and acquisitions, workforce reductions and leaves of absence, Sarbanes-Oxley, and trade secrets issues. He frequently conducts trainings for supervisors on personnel compliance, harassment, anti-discrimination and union avoidance issues and has taught courses on federal and California wage and hour and leave of absence laws. Mr. Silbergeld is the class action editor of Bender’s California Labor & Employment Bulletin, a chapter editor for The Developing Labor Law, and recently completed the third edition of Doing Business in California: An Employment Law Handbook. He is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a member of the American Employment Law Council, and is currently on the executive committee of the California Committee South of Human Rights Watch. He is a past trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and past chair of the 1,200-member Labor and Employment Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is also a charter member and past officer of the Association of Workplace Investigators, Inc. Mr. Silbergeld has been a member of the executive committee of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association since 1981. In 2011 and 2012, Mr. Silbergeld was named one of the top employment lawyers in California by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and recognized in The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Silbergeld has been recognized by Super Lawyers each year since 2005.