Stephen P. Rosenberg

Stephen P. Rosenberg advises and represents businesses and nonprofits in a broad range of employment law matters, including:

• Unfair competition, trade secrets, and restrictive covenants
• Wage and hour issues
• Independent contractor and employee classification
• Discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful discharge claims
• Employment policies, performance management, and other employment law issues

He represents clients in state and federal courts and before the Connecticut Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities in matters involving:

• Unfair competition and trade secrets claims
• Federal and Connecticut wage and hour laws
• Federal and Connecticut anti-discrimination laws

Steve’s successes on behalf of clients include the following:

• As lead plaintiff’s counsel in an unfair competition and trade secrets case in Connecticut federal court, obtained a preliminary injunction and partial summary judgment on behalf of a nationwide staffing company against its former employee
• Guided a Fortune 100 financial services company through wage and hour audits by the federal and Connecticut state labor departments, which were dismissed by those agencies without any finding of a violation
• Represented a nationwide transportation logistics provider in an audit by the U.S. Department of Labor, resulting in a finding that delivery drivers were properly classified as independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Second chair trial counsel for a national communications company in a federal pregnancy discrimination case, which resulted in a jury verdict for our client
• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a union employer in a wage and hour lawsuit brought by the Connecticut Labor Commissioner, on grounds that the claims were preempted by federal labor law

Previously, Steve worked as a staff attorney for the Connecticut Department of Labor. In that role, he supported the agency’s Employment Security Board of Review in its resolution of unemployment appeals involving individual claimants as well as independent contract classification audits. Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk to Associate Justice Joette Katz of the Connecticut Supreme Court. During law school, Steve was executive editor of the Connecticut Law Review and graduated in the top 10 percent of his class.