Our Attorneys
David G. Abbott
Natasha J. Baker
John F. Baum
Jayne Benz Chipman
Kim Brener
Richard J. Curiale
Anne Dahlgren
Amy A. Durgan
Robert R. Flemer
Gregory S. Glazer
Daniel H. Handman
Stephen J. Hirschfeld
Glen E. Kraemer
Kirstin E. Muller
Dena Narbaitz
Kristin L. Oliveira
Olivia B. Perry
Carmen Plaza De Jennings
Felicia R. Reid
Donna M. Rutter
Reed E. Schaper
Whit Selert
Mani Sheik
Ann E. Soter
Mel Ziontz
Natasha J. Baker
John F. Baum
Jayne Benz Chipman
Kim Brener
Richard J. Curiale
Anne Dahlgren
Amy A. Durgan
Robert R. Flemer
Gregory S. Glazer
Daniel H. Handman
Stephen J. Hirschfeld
Glen E. Kraemer
Kirstin E. Muller
Dena Narbaitz
Kristin L. Oliveira
Olivia B. Perry
Carmen Plaza De Jennings
Felicia R. Reid
Donna M. Rutter
Reed E. Schaper
Whit Selert
Mani Sheik
Ann E. Soter
Mel Ziontz
David G. Abbott
Associate
310-255-0705
Associate
310-255-0705
David G. Abbott is an associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He concentrates his practice in Wage & Hour Litigation, Wrongful Termination, Harassment, Discrimination, Employment Advice and Counsel and Internal Investigations.
Natasha J. Baker
Associate
415-835-9000
Associate
415-835-9000
Natasha Baker is an associate in the firm's San Francisco Office. She represents institutions of higher education and private employers in a wide range of legal matters pertaining to employment and student affairs.
John F. Baum
Partner
415-835-9006
Partner
415-835-9006
John Baum is a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. His focus is in labor and employment law litigation and counseling on behalf of private and public employers, as well as educational institutions.
Jayne Benz Chipman
Associate
415-835-9000
Associate
415-835-9000
Jayne Benz Chipman is a senior associate in the firm's San Francisco office. Ms. Chipman has spent over fifteen years counseling and representing both private and public employers in California, with an emphasis on the public sector and higher educational institutions.
Kim Brener
Associate
310-255-0705
Associate
310-255-0705
Kim Brener is an associate in the firm's Los Angeles office. Her practice involves counseling and litigation in all areas of employment and labor law, including wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination and breach of contract.
Richard J. Curiale
Partner
415-835-9000
Partner
415-835-9000
Richard Curiale is the Managing Partner of Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP. He is resident in the firm’s San Francisco, California office. In addition to spending a significant amount of time litigating employment disputes, Mr. Curiale also focuses a major part of his practice on supervisory training, preventive labor relations, union organizing, collective bargaining and arbitration.
Anne Dahlgren
Associate
415-835-9000
Associate
415-835-9000
Anne Dahlgren is an associate with Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer and practices in the firm’s San Francisco office. Her practice involves counseling and litigation in all areas of employment and labor law, including discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination, and she represents institutions of higher education and private employers in a wide range of legal matters pertaining to employment and student affairs.
Amy A. Durgan
Associate
415-835-9000
Associate
415-835-9000
Amy Durgan is an associate in the firm’s San Francisco office. Ms. Durgan represents private and public sector employers in a broad range of labor and employment law matters, including harassment, discrimination, wage and hour litigation, and wrongful termination.
Robert R. Flemer
Associate
310-255-0705
Associate
310-255-0705
Rob Flemer is an associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Flemer represents a variety of employers with respect to employment matters, including restaurants, hotels, manufacturers, retailers, engineering companies, and financial services companies.
Gregory S. Glazer
Partner
310-255-0705
Partner
310-255-0705
Greg Glazer is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. Mr. Glazer’s practice and civil litigation experience encompasses a wide variety of labor and employment matters including race, gender, religious, national origin, sexual orientation and disability discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination, as well as trade secret, breach of contract and employment related tort claims.
Daniel H. Handman
Partner
310-255-0705
Partner
310-255-0705
Dan Handman is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. He is a labor and employment litigator who has taken over a dozen cases to trial with successful results in every case.
Stephen J. Hirschfeld
Partner
415-835-9011
Partner
415-835-9011
Stephen Hirschfeld is a founding partner with the law firm of Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP, in San Francisco, California. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Employment Law Alliance (ELA), the world’s largest network of labor and employment lawyers.
Glen E. Kraemer
Partner
310-255-0705
Partner
310-255-0705
Glen Kraemer, one of the founding partners of the Firm, manages the Los Angeles office employment law practice. He focuses exclusively on the representation of employers concerning discrimination and harassment claims, and personnel law compliance issues involving disability accommodations, wage/hour concerns, protected leaves, and corrective counseling, discipline and termination practices.
Kirstin E. Muller
Partner
310-255-0705
Partner
310-255-0705
Kirstin Muller is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. Ms. Muller practices labor and employment law, representing clients in litigation before state and federal courts, as well as administrative agencies.
Dena Narbaitz
Partner
415-835-9000
Partner
415-835-9000
Dena Narbaitz is a Partner in the firm's San Francisco office. Ms. Narbaitz’ practice focuses upon employment law, including providing counseling and litigation services to employers on a wide range of issues affecting the workplace, including wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation and trade secrets claims.
Kristin L. Oliveira
Of Counsel
415-835-9051
Of Counsel
415-835-9051
Olivia B. Perry
Associate
310-255-1826
Associate
310-255-1826
Olivia B. Perry is an associate with Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer and practices in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Her practice involves counseling and litigation in all areas of employment and labor law, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination.
Carmen Plaza De Jennings
Partner
415-835-9000
Partner
415-835-9000
Carmen Plaza de Jennings is a partner in the firm's San Francisco office. She practices in the area of labor and employment law, with an emphasis on the representation of public sector employers, including cities, counties, institutions of higher education, and special districts.
Felicia R. Reid
Partner
415-835-9000
Partner
415-835-9000
Felicia R. Reid is a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, and heads the firm’s Wage and Hour practice group. Her practice focuses on both litigation and practical day-to-day advice and counsel to employers not only in the wage and hour arena, but also on the full range of labor and employment law matters.
Donna M. Rutter
Partner
415-835-9000
Partner
415-835-9000
Donna M. Rutter is a partner in the firm's San Francisco office. Ms. Rutter practices in the areas of wage and hour class actions, wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment and retaliation litigation before federal and state courts and agencies, exclusively representing employers in all aspects of employment law matters.
Reed E. Schaper
Partner
310-255-0705
Partner
310-255-0705
Reed Schaper is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office, and that office's senior litigation partner. Mr. Schaper has represented employers in state and federal court in a variety of employment-related matters.
Whit Selert
Of Counsel
775-826-7100
Of Counsel
775-826-7100
Whit Selert is a senior trial lawyer in Reno, Nevada and Of Counsel to Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP. Mr. Selert is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law where he was the Senior Notes & Comments Editor of the U.C. Davis law Review.
Mani Sheik
Associate
415-835-9063
Associate
415-835-9063
Mani Sheik is an associate with Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer and practices in the firm’s San Francisco office. His practice involves wage and hour litigation (including class action litigation), wrongful termination, harassment, and discrimination in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration and mediation.
Ann E. Soter
Associate
415-835-9000
Associate
415-835-9000
Ann Soter is an associate in the firm’s San Francisco office. Ms. Soter represents private and public sector employers in a broad range of labor and employment law matters, including harassment, discrimination, wage and hour litigation, and wrongful termination.
Mel Ziontz
Of Counsel
310-255-1835
Of Counsel
310-255-1835
Mel Ziontz is Of Counsel in the firm's Los Angeles Office. Mr. Ziontz' is a transactional lawyer with experience representing a broad spectrum of businesses. His practice emphasizes mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations and financings of private and publicly held companies, and general business contracts and advice.





