Partner
Los Angeles

Laurence Zakson has practiced labor, employee benefits and election law exclusively since 1985.   Mr. Zakson represents local unions in the entertainment, baking, transportation and construction industries, public employee locals, union- and Democratic Party-affiliated political committees, as well as SEIU- and Teamsters-affiliated multi-employer employee benefit funds and local union-sponsored charities and death benefit funds.

Prior to joining Reich Adell & Cvitan, Mr. Zakson was formerly a Senior Litigation Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Appellate and Supreme Court Branches.   While with the National Labor Relations Board, Mr. Zakson was a former President (CEO) and chief grievance officer of the National Labor Relations Board Professional Association, a public sector labor organization.   Mr. Zakson was a judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and for a U.S. Magistrate in the Northern District of California.   Mr. Zakson also taught as an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University, School of Law.