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Jeffrey M. Tanenbaum

Partner
Labor & Employment Practice Leader
San Francisco
Phone: 415-984-8450
Fax: 866-268-2098
Email jtanenbaum@nixonpeabody.com
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Education

  • Georgetown University, J.D.
  • Brandeis University, B.A.

Admissions

  • California

Recognition

Mr. Tanenbaum has been recognized for exceptional standing in the legal community in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in 2011, 2012, and 2013 for Labor and Employment Law. He has also been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" by the publishers of the Northern California Super Lawyers magazine since 2007. Inclusion in Super Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey.

A Matthew Bender publication has described Mr. Tanenbaum as one of California’s leading employment litigators, and Mr. Tanenbaum has been named by The Recorder, a legal newspaper, as one of the Bay Area’s Top Employment Attorneys.

  

JEFFREY M. TANENBAUM

Jeffrey Tanenbaum chairs the firm’s labor and employment practice group and the firm’s national Occupational Safety & Health (OSHA) team. He represents employers in employment and labor relations litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Mr. Tanenbaum has extensive experience in, and has written and lectured on, OSHA, Cal-OSHA, MSHA, discriminatory and negligent hiring, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, collective bargaining, and arbitrations.

Publications

Mr. Tanenbaum's numerous publications include:

  • Cal-OSHA Handbook (California Chamber of Commerce) (technical advisor)
  • Senate Bill 198 and the Be a Manager Go to Jail Act (Littler) (author)
  • Employee Handbook: How to Write One for Your Company (California Chamber of Commerce) (co-author)
  • Cal-OSHA: Beyond the Basics (California Chamber of Commerce) (co-author)
  • The Common Sense Employer (Knowledge Circle, Inc.) (editorial advisor)
  • Terror and Violence in the Workplace (Littler) (co-author)
  • Personnel Policy Solutions (Knowledge Circle, Inc.) (co-editor)
  • Family Leave Laws: A Guide for California Employers (California Chamber of Commerce) (editor)
  • New Guidelines for Employment Contracts and Disciplinary Procedures (Littler) (co-author)
  • The Five Biggest Mistakes Made by Employers (and How to Avoid Them!) (Littler) (co-author)
  • California Employment Law Reporter (Matthew Bender) (columnist)
  • The New Cal-OSHA Guidelines for the Contingent Workforce (Littler) (co-author)
  • An Employer’s Pocket Guide to Cal/OSHA (M. Lee Smith) (author)
  • Preventing Workplace Violence (Parlay International)
  • Cal/OSHA Compliance Advisor (Employer Resource Institute) (editor)

 

Affiliations

Mr. Tanenbaum is a member of the State Bar of California and its Employment and Labor Law Section. Within the American Bar Association Mr. Tanenbaum is a member of the Section on Labor and Employment Law and the Occupational Safety & Health Law Committee. Mr. Tanenbaum is also a member of the Editorial Review Board for the CAL/OSHA Compliance Advisor.

Thought Leadership/Alerts

Defense goes up in smoke — discharge for medical marijuana use upheld in Washington State
Employment Law Alert | June 23, 2011

OSHA announces a radical new and enormously costly interpretation of occupational noise standards
OSHA Alert | October 28, 2010

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Press

Chambers Recognizes Leading Nixon Peabody Attorneys and Practices
March 14, 2013

Chambers Gives High Marks to Nixon Peabody LLP
June 11, 2012

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Media Clips

  • Obama's Compromise on Contraception Won't End Lawsuits
    Law360 | February 1, 2013

    San Francisco partner and leader of the firm’s Labor & Employment practice Jeff Tanenbaum discusses the Obama administration's proposal to allow religious organizations to opt out of directly providing contraceptives to employees.

  • Clear-Cut Employer Contraception Mandate May Be Elusive
    Law 360 | January 18, 2013

    San Francisco partner and leader of the firm’s Labor & Employment practice Jeff Tanenbaum discusses current issues associated with health reform’s requirement that employer medical plans include contraception coverage.

  • Dukes’ Back From the Dead
    The Recorder | October 27, 2011

    The article discusses plaintiff attorneys’ new strategy against Wal-Mart in a gender-bias suit. Labor & Employment practice group leader Jeff Tanenbaum is quoted in the piece discussing how the new suit still contains flaws, which is that plaintiffs themselves acknowledge local store supervisors have discretion over policies, which works against establishing commonality. The article does also note that the firm has worked for Walmart (interview conducted with prior approval of client attorney).

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  • What’s That Sound? OSHA’s New Noise Standards
    Employment Law 360 | November 16, 2010
    This guest column, authored by leader of the firm’s Labor & Employment practice Jeff Tanenbaum, discusses the possible changes being considered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to its interpretation of an employer’s obligations concerning employee exposure to occupational noise and the potential impacts.
  • A Cold, Cold World: Nixing ‘No Cold-Call’ Agreements
    Competition, Employment & Technology Law360 | October 14, 2010
    This guest column, authored by San Francisco partner and Labor & Employment practice group leader Jeff Tanenbaum, discusses a recent U.S. Department of Justice’s settlement focused on bilateral agreements regarding employers “cold calling” each other’s employees for employment.
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