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Bruce M. Steen
Partner
201 North Tryon Street
bsteen@mcguirewoods.comCharlotte, North Carolina 28202-2146 F: 704.353.6200 |
On behalf of employers and management, Mr. Steen litigates claims and counsels clients pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), the National Labor Relations Act, and the Labor Management Relations Act.
Mr. Steen also has extensive experience litigating collective (a/k/a "class") actions pursuant to the FLSA throughout the United States.
On behalf of ERISA pension and welfare plans and plan sponsors, Mr. Steen also has extensive experience litigating pension, disability and severance claims in federal courts in many parts of the country, and has an active labor law arbitration and counseling practice.
While at the University of Virginia, he was Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review, and was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.
He is an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he teaches an employment law seminar, and is a frequent lecturer on employment law issues.
- Named One of the "Best Lawyers in America," Woodward/White, Inc., 2010-2012
- Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit, Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III, 1988-1989
- Economically Meaningful Markets: An Alternative Approach to Defining Like Product and Domestic Industry under the Trade Agreement Act of 1979, 73 University of Virginia Law Review 1459, 1987
- Children and Family Services Center, Inc.
- President, Board of Directors, 2006-2008
- Member, Board of Directors, 2003-Present
- Council for Children's Rights
- Member, Board of Directors, 2009-Present
- Youth Homes, Inc.
- President, Board of Directors, 2005-2007
- Member, Board of Directors, 2001-2007
- Member, Professional Advisory Board, 2007-Present
- Charlotte Latin School Booster Club
- Member, Board of Directors
- Virginia State Bar, Mandatory Professionalism Course for New Admittees
- Faculty Member, 1999-2001
- Virginia Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division, Chair, Committee on Law & Citizenship Studies, 1991-1997
- Young Lawyers Division Executive Committee, 1992-1997
- Federal Judgeships (Western District), 1994-1997
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EDUCATION University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, J.D., 1988
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, M.A. Economics, 1989 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, B.A., cum laude, 1983 ADMITTED Virginia 1990 North Carolina 2002 PLACE OF BIRTH Manhasset, New York |

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