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F. Curt Kirschner Jr. - San Francisco, CA
555 California Street26th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104
Jones Day
San Francisco Labor & Employment Lawyer
Overview
In practice for more than 27 years, Curt Kirschner focuses on the resolution of complex labor and employment disputes, with a particular concentration on addressing employers' rights and obligations relating to disputes arising in the health care field. Curt has been designated by the American Hospital Association as its outside counsel for labor matters affecting the hospital industry...
In practice for more than 27 years, Curt Kirschner focuses on the resolution of complex labor and employment disputes, with a particular concentration on addressing employers' rights and obligations relating to disputes arising in the health care field. Curt has been designated by the American Hospital Association as its outside counsel for labor matters affecting the hospital industry...
In practice for more than 27 years, Curt Kirschner focuses on the resolution of complex labor and employment disputes, with a particular concentration on addressing employers' rights and obligations relating to disputes arising in the health care field. Curt has been designated by the American Hospital Association as its outside counsel for labor matters affecting the hospital industry. On behalf of the AHA, he has authored amicus briefs and comments on a variety of important policy topics facing hospital employers, including federal preemption of state laws affecting labor-management relations, the NLRB's proposed rule changes, and the proposed expansion of the federal contractor jurisdiction over hospitals.
Curt has extensive experience in the defense of "corporate campaigns" brought against employers by labor unions, including the pursuit of litigation against unlawful union activities arising from corporate campaigns. He has negotiated scores of collective bargaining agreements, handled numerous proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and similar state agencies, advocated on behalf of employers in grievance and interest arbitrations, and provided advice and litigation representation during labor disputes.
Curt's employment litigation experience is similarly extensive. Defending scores of employment lawsuits in state and federal courts and in private arbitration proceedings, he has obtained favorable decisions from juries, judges, and arbitrators in difficult employment cases in many industry sectors, including health care, broadcasting, technology, investment banking, and the public sector.
Curt regularly speaks and writes about a variety of labor and employment topics, including corporate campaigns, organizing agreements, strikes and lockouts, and interest arbitration. He is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Attorneys.
About F. Curt Kirschner Jr.
Current Employment Position(s)
- Partner
Practice Areas
- Labor & Employment
- Health Care
- NLRB Proceedings & Appeals
- Collective Bargaining, Contract Enforcement & Union Organizing
- Labor & Employment Health Care Law
- Employment Aspects of Corporate Transactions
- Single & Multiple Plaintiff Employment Litigation
Representative Cases
- HCA involved in SEIU election agreement arbitration (2009)
- Port of Oakland defends against unfair labor practice charges stemming from a reduction in force (2009)
- Sutter Health negotiates with SEIU and reaches contract settlement with CNA
- Yale-New Haven Hospital Center settles unfair labor practice charges on eve of trial (2009)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- California
Education
- University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1985
J.D.
Honors: cum laude
Honors: Clara Belfield Fellowship - University of California, Berkeley, California, 1982
B.A.
Honors: With Distinction
Articles
Published Works
- EFCA's First Contract Arbitration Would Revolutionize the Labor Law Landscape, coauthor, 2009
- Addressing Employee Issues Related to H1N1, AHA Health Care Labor Report, 2009
- Balancing Patient and Employee Interests: Health Care Employer Responses to the H1N1 Pandemic, 2009
- EFCA's First Contract Arbitration Provision: Why the Disinterest Over Interest Arbitration?, Workplace Law Report, 7 WLR 1102, BNA,Inc., 2009
- Court Limits Hospitals' Responses to Employee Participation in Unlawful Picketing, AHA Health Care Labor Report, 2009
- Rival Unions Form New Alliance, coauthor, AHA Health Care Labor Report, 2009
- Union Access to Private Property: California Supreme Court Rules Shopping Malls Cannot Prohibit Union Protesters from Urging Boycott of Stores, 2008
- Supreme Court Strikes Down Restrictions on Employer Speech, coauthor, AHA Health Care Labor Report, 2008
- Future Scenarios for U.S. Labor Relations, 2008
- Corporate Campaigns: Five Questions Every Hospital Leader Should Ask to Prepare for and Manage a Corporate Campaign, 2007
- In Dana Corp., NLRB Offers Protection for Employee Free Choice with Secret Ballot Elections, AHA Health Care Labor Report, 2007
Office Information
Address
555 California Street26th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone
Fax
- (415) 875-5700
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