Stephen Anthony Sommers, Esq.

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Professional Experience

Law Office of Daniel Feder (2021 - present) San Francisco, CA - Remote Contract Attorney

Performed all aspects of litigation from new matter due diligence to trial as first chair. This position allows Mr. Sommers to work hourly for Mr. Feder as well as directly represent clients as individually, as the Sommers Employment Law Group. Saltzman & Johnson Law Corp. (2021) Alameda, CA

Associate Attorney

Represented multi-employer welfare funds in collection matters. Service Employees International Union Local 1021 (2019-2021) Oakland, CA Business Agent

Stephen Sommers worked for the education industry team for SEIU 1021. In this role, he completed negotiations for CBA’s, COVID-19 safety, school reopener and other related agreements. Additionally, Mr. Sommers worked with chapter leadership on wide ranging membership issues including discipline and misclassification problems. Sommers Employment Law Group, P.C. (2010 –present) San Francisco, CA Owner/ Managing Partner

Stephen Sommers separated his practice from Kumin Sommers LLP to focus solely on Labor and Employment. Sommers Employment Law Group (SELG) focuses on representing employees who have been wronged in some way by their employers. SELG has represented hundreds of clients, from top executives to employees who clean the floors. Mr. Sommers also has successfully litigated several employment focused class action lawsuits. Mr. Sommers and his associates settled a class action law suit for employees of a single IHOP franchise for $650,000. Most recently, SELG led the fight for unpaid wages for 1,600 California homecare workers leveraging a settlement of over $11M.

SELG has also partnered with SEIU Local 1021 by being lead negotiator on the union's behalf for collective bargaining agreements with area municipalities, including Hayward CA where Mr. Sommers and his team challenged the City of Hayward in the Public Employees Relations Board successfully challenging the City’s imposition of bargaining terms. Mr. Sommers takes the occasional piece of litigation to do on his own to this date and seeks to maintain that option.

Kumin Sommers LLP (2008 – 2010) San Francisco, CA

Founder/Owner/Managing Partner

Stephen Sommers merged his Sommers Law Group with the Law Offices of Matthew Kumin in September 2008, to ensure resources and support to fight for justice for employees wronged by their employers. Kumin Sommers LLP also represents individuals who have been injured by the police in federal civil rights actions. Under Mr. Sommers guidance, the firm grew to 17 attorneys with three offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Denver. Sommers Law Group (2004 – 2008) San Francisco, CA

Owner

Stephen Sommers started Sommers Law Group on the principle that an individual's dignity is largely grounded in the work they perform, and when an employer unfairly treats its employee, it damages the dignity of the employee. For four years, Sommers Law Group represented hundreds of employees, from laborers to medical physicians. Beeson, Tayer & Bodine (2002 – 2004) Oakland, CA

Associate Attorney

Stephen Sommers first job out of law school was with labor and employment firm Beeson, Tayer

& Bodine. Duane Beeson started the firm over 50 years ago and was one of Mr. Sommers's mentors. Mr. Beeson liked to instruct "measure twice, cut once." At Beeson, Tayer & Bodine, Mr. Sommers represented local labor unions, including the Teamsters, Media Guild, and the California Teachers Association among others. Mr. Sommers also represented individuals in disputes against their employers.

Citizen Action (1991 – 1993) Pittsburgh, PA

Regional Director - Western Pennsylvania

Mr. Sommers was one of the youngest regional directors for the national consumer and environmental organization, Citizen Action. Mr. Sommers operated the door-to-door political canvass, coordinating lobbying efforts, and developing issue campaigns. As the Western Pennsylvania Director, among other issues, Mr. Sommers and his team of 60 canvassers, changed Pennsylvania law releasing federal funds for much needed lead abatement work throughout the Commonwealth.

Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C. (2002 – 2002) Washington, DC Law Clerk

Mr. Sommers was a law clerk at the prestigious labor law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC. Mr. Sommers was the first law student selected from Northeastern University School of Law to clerk for the firm. At Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC, Mr. Sommers worked on a number of appellate level cases.

National Labor Relations Board (2002 – 2002) Washington, DC Law Clerk to Chairman John C. Truesdale

While a law student, Mr. Sommers was law clerk to John C. Truesdale, the Chairperson of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Mr. Truesdale was appointed by President Clinton in 1998 where he served the top post until he retired in 2001. Under the guidance of Mr. Truesdale and his staff attorneys, Mr. Sommers researched cases and submitted draft NLRB decisions, advocated the Board for the acceptance of his determination, and made final edits for publication of Board Decisions.

United Mine Workers of America (2000 – 2000) Washington, DC Law Clerk

Mr. Sommers' first legal job was as law clerk in the legal department for the United Mine Workers of America. The United Mine Workers of America holds a special place in American union history as a union that truly believes in membership democracy. The summer that Mr. Sommers worked for the UMWA, every person working the national headquarters were former miners, with the exception of the administrative and legal staff. One of the many legal projects Mr. Sommers worked on while with the UMWA was to create new labor law on Native American Reservations so that miners working in mines on those reservations could organize into a union. Mr. Sommers was trained at the UMWA by Doug Parker, OSHA Director. Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow (2001-2001)

Law Clerk

Mr. Sommers capped-off his four legal clerkships at the famed plaintiff firm performing legal research, discovery motions, complaints and other pleadings. Completed an in-depth research project on the Koch Brothers at the request of the managing partner for his duties as the chairperson of the National Trial Lawyers. UNITE (1993-1999) Union Organizer and Business Agent

Mr. Sommers was a union organizer for ACTWU (now UNITE HERE) in the southeast region of the United States. He worked in rural, mostly African American, communities where he encouraged workers to rise against intolerable working conditions and the daily indignities of the job.

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) (1993 - 1993) International Representative

Mr. Sommers was a union organizer for the UE, working in remote communities throughout the United States, encouraging workers to join together and fight for fairness on the job. United States Peace Corps - Chad, Africa (1990 - 1991) Volunteer

Mr. Sommers was a Peace Corps volunteer in Chad, which lies in the heart of Central Africa, between the Darfur region of the Sudan, Libya, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Central African Republic. Mr. Sommers was posted in Mao, a village in the Saharan Desert, where he helped locals develop cheap and efficient freshwater pump technology for fresh drinking water. The Peace Corps was a defining time in Mr. Sommers' life, where he was forced to make it on his own, in a dangerous and difficult area of the world. When Mr. Sommers returned to the United States, the Chadian government had just withstood a serious military coup attempt, the second in just under a year. At the time, Chad was selected by National Geographic as the World's Number One Hardship Post with an average life expectancy of 37 years. Education

Northeastern University School of Law (NUSL)

Juris Doctorate (1999-2002)

Summary: NUSL provided Mr. Sommers with a near full scholarship that covered his tuition and some living expenses for all three years. Honors: NUSL is a practice oriented school and does not have a law journal. Mr. Sommers sought and achieved the coveted position of TA, a legal writing teaching assistant for 1L’s in his second year.

East Carolina University

Bachelor of Arts (1990) Political Science

Bachelor of Arts (1990) Philosophy (double major)

1986 - 1990

Summary: Mr. Sommers was a very active undergraduate student, dedicated to his academics, team Lacrosse, concert promotion, and progressive campus politics. He aarned a double-degree in political science and philosophy, leading the honors organizations for both academic departments. Mr. Sommers was the campus concert promoter as chief concert promoter for the Student Union. His real passion was progressive activism. Addressing what he perceived as institutionalized racism at East Carolina University, Mr. Sommers became a board member of Allied Blacks for Leadership and Equality (ABLE). Also, Mr. Sommers founded the Reform Party to gain political power for all underrepresented students. The Reform Party movement left a lasting impact on the campus culture when Mr. Sommers and friends directly addressed the history of racism on campus and the lingering institutional racism, and today ECU students enjoy fuller inclusion, freedom, acceptance, and diversity. Honors: President, Political Science Honor Society; President, Philosophy Honor Society President, Students for Economic Democracy; Student Newsmaker, 1989. Activities: Chair, Major Concerts Committee; Chair, Special Concerts Committee; President, Students for Economic Democracy; Student Legislator, Student Government; Board of Directors, Student Union; Board of Directors, Allied Blacks for Leadership and Equality; Chair, Student Government Reform Party. Midfielder, Lacrosse Team. Legal Awards

Mr. Sommers was selected by Super Lawyers four times as a Rising Star and four times selected as a Super Lawyer. Not coincidentally, each associate trained by Mr. Sommers from 2010 to 2017 who were eligible for such awards were also selected by Super Lawyers as Rising Stars.

Stephen Sommers has been actively engaged with the AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) throughout his legal career. He was the ALRP Attorney of the Year in 2008 and has received the Hero Award from ALRP every year until 2015, when Mr. Sommers, for health reasons, ceased litigating for several years.