About
Lawyer John Stember concentrates on employment and hard work topics, such as sexual harassment, worker pension and fitness benefits and ERISA. He often represents executives in negotiation and enforcement of employment contracts and severance applications, and in actions regarding non-competes. He additionally represents a number of Unions, which include the Arena Football Players Union (AFLPU) and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) at KDKA and WQED.
Over the closing decade, John has litigated some of ERISA and gain elegance movements in opposition to some of Americaâs biggest corporations that attempted to eliminate or lessen retiree healthcare. These instances concerned lots of union retirees, including former Steelworkers, Autoworkers, Chemical Workers, and United Electrical Workers, in opposition to such predominant producers as American Standard, PPG, GM, Ford, Chrysler, General Tire Corp, Sunoco, and Crown Cork.
For the beyond five years, John has served as Adjunct Clinical Professor on the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where presently directs its Unemployment Insurance Practicum. He often lectures on place of job issues and co-authored a guide on Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation. He also co-authored âBattling for Benefits,â which seemed in Trial Magazine (December 2005). He has regarded on numerous radio and tv packages, along with Al Franken and Oprah Winfrey, and his cases have been blanketed inside the Wall Street Journal, Bill Moyersâ NOW and Pittsburghâs primary media shops. He was named a âSuper Lawyerâ in 2008 and in âBest Lawyers in America 2013.â
Earlier in his profession, John worked as a Legal Services attorney, representing low profits workers. During this time, he served as a neighborhood union president and as National Secretary of UAW Local 2320, the national union of Legal Services Workers.
John filed the first identical-intercourse sexual harassment case within the Western District of Pennsylvania and has received a number of favorable choices from the Third and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Court of International Trade. He is admitted to exercise in the U.S. Supreme Court, all Pennsylvania Courts, and severa federal district and circuit courts.
John is the longtime Board Chairman of the Mon Valley Unemployed Committee, a non-income institution that assists dislocated workers within the vicinity. He turned into a founding Board has club of the Steel Valley Authority, a local authority devoted to commercial retention.
John is currently an officer inside the âLabor and Employment Sectionâ of the Allegheny County Bar Association and a Chapter Editor (âCollectively Bargained Benefitsâ) of BNAâs âEmployee Benefits Law.â He is a member of the Lawyersâ Coordinating Committee (LCC) and National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA).
John graduated in 1976 with a JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and in 1972 from Ohio University, cum laude, as a Cutler Fellow and Honors College member.
John is a native of Brooklyn and grew up in North Jersey. He is an avid golfer, reader and vacationer. He is married with two children and three grandchildren. He turned into a few of the creators of Robot Baseball, for a time Americaâs most beneficial play-via-mail fantasy baseball game.
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- Partner
Stember Cohn + Davidson-Welling, LLC
2013 - Partner
Stember Feinstein Doyle Payne & Kravec, LLC
2007 - Partner
Stember Feinstein
2003 - Sole Proprietor
Law Offices of John Stember
1996 - Lawyer
Healey, Davidson & Hornak, PC
1995 - Employment Law Coordinator
Neighborhood Legal Services Association
1980 - Staff Lawyer
Neighborhood Legal Services Association
1976
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Graduation year: 1972
Graduation year: 1968
