Steven M. Birnbaum Esq.
- Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation by State
Bar of California
- Attended New York University
- Served in Volunteers in Service
to America (VISTA)
- Graduated New College of California
School of Law San Francisco
He received his California
license to practice law in 1978 and is licensed to trial before U.S. District
Court and U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit United States Supreme Court.
He started as Legal Assistance
to the Elderly in San Francisco and became staff attorney in 1978. In 1983 he
established the professional corporation of Law
Office of Steven M. Birnbaum. He specializes in Workers’ Compensation under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Act
and under the California Labor Code and has tried many cases to successful
verdicts.
He is a member of San Francisco
Bar Association California State Bar California Applicants’ Attorneys Association and a Board Member of
Workplace Injury Litigation Group of ATLA. He is also the chair of emeritus of
San Francisco Bay Maritime Claimant’s
Bar, past Chair of ATLA Workers’ Compensation Section and a Lecturer of
National College of Advocacy as well as a member of the advisory board of the
Loyola University (New Orleans) Longshore Seminar.
He is the editor of Longshore
Textbook 4th Edition
and an advisor for Benefits
Review Board Reports by LexisNexis Legal Research.
The Law Office of Steven M. Birnbaum is also a
Corporate Sponsor of the King
Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas.