Biography: Management Labour and Employment

Steven R Wall is the firm's managing partner of practice and a senior partner in the labour and employment practice. Resident in the Philadelphia office, Mr Wall is responsible for working with the firm's practice group leaders and other partners on strategic business planning and implementation and practice management. Mr Wall served as the practice group leader of the international labour and employment practice from 2003 to 2009.

Mr Wall's client service centres on traditional labour strategic advice, with particular focus on union corporate campaigns and high-profile employment litigation. He has handled dozens of employment litigation matters in federal and state courts and before several administrative agencies, with an emphasis on class-based discrimination, wage and hour and collective bargaining issues. He has tried to verdict more than a dozen employment cases in federal and state court.

Mr Wall is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2006–09) and in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2003–10). For eight years running, Mr Wall has been named one of the leading US lawyers for employment law by Chambers, based on the views of clients, peers, and other industry professionals. Chambers recognised his "great presence and command in front of a jury" and commended his ability to act as a strategic advisor. Chambers has also called Mr Wall "a great relationship partner, and an excellent litigator and negotiator in his own right." Mr Wall is also a fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Mr Wall received his JD in 1983 and his BS in 1979 from Cornell University Law School.