About David S. Birnbaum
Practice Areas
- Employment
Education
- University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2005J.D.
- Law Journal: Journal of Law Reform,
- Miami University, 2002B.S.B.
- Major: Finance
Representative Cases
- Abbott acquires Visiogen in a $400 million private company merger (2009)
- Albanian granted U.S. asylum on humanitarian grounds
- American Commercial Lines obtains summary judgment in multi-million dollar retiree medical benefits case (2010)
- American Commerical Lines is successful in collective bargaining negotiations with United Mineworkers of America, District 12, Local 2452
- American Steamship negotiates with American Maritime Officers (2011)
- American Steamship negotiates with USW for successor agreement with operating crew of its great lakes fleet (2010)
- Cameroonian client wins U.S. asylum
- CareerBuilder successfully resolves FLSA collective action
- Continental Automotive Systems favorably resolves issues in connection with effects bargaining pertaining to closure of Alabama facility (2011)
- Continental Automotive Systems obtains ruling to have putative class action case regarding retiree medical benefits transferred (2011)
- Continental Automotive Systems successfully negotiates with IAMAW regarding Newport News, VA facility (2010)
- Continental Tire obtains favorable outcome in arbitrations involving USW
- Continental Tire obtains preliminary approval in settlement in ERISA class action
- Continental Tire successfully defends against unfair labor practice charges (2009)
- FleetPride defends against putative nationwide FLSA collective action
- Jeffboat, a subsidiary of American Commercial Lines, successfully negotiates with Teamsters Local 89 (2009)
- Jones Day prepares report for Bosnia and Herzegovina on anti-discrimination laws (2012)
- Kaiser Aluminum acquires substantially all assets of Alexco (2010)
- National Railway Labor Conference goes before Presidential Emergency Board resulting in major victory for rail industry (2011)
- Resilience Capital sells business unit of ASC Signal Corporation (2009)
- Richland-Stryker, a unit of Quintana Minerals Corporation, acquires two gas-fired peaking facilities from First Energy (2011)
- Ron's Staffing Services defends against wage-hour class action; class settlement preliminarily approved (2009)
- Veolia Environnement sells U.S. solid waste business to Star Atlantic Waste for $1.9 billion (2012)
- Verizon Communications defends against appeal of summary judgment and obtains full victory
- Verizon defends against labor arbitrations involving contract administration and enforcement with the IBEW and CWA (2009)
- Victor Acquisition Corp., affiliate of Resilience Capital Partners, acquires substantially all assets of Victor Oolitic Stone Company in 363 sale (2009)
- Viking Range defeats Whirlpool in its attempt for injunctive relief to prohibit former exec from working at Viking
- Woodward acquires HR Textron Inc. from Textron Inc. for $365 million (2009)
- Woodward acquires MPC Products for $383 million (2009)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
Past Positions
- Honorable James S. Gwin, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Judicial Extern, - 2003
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