Since 2002, Paul Greenberg has focused his private legal practice on mediation, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. His ADR practice has focused on the resolution of labor and employment disputes; securities disputes; and commercial cases. He currently serves on several arbitrator and mediator rosters and panels. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators.
In addition to his arbitration and mediation work, Mr. Greenberg provides a variety of other "neutral" services for clients, including work as a fact-finder or examiner for public agencies and private companies; conducting internal investigations; and providing neutral evaluations. His clients include individual parties to disputes, private sector organizations and government entities.
Between 2013 - 2019, Mr. Greenberg served as an administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration’s disability benefits adjudication program. During this period, he suspended his private dispute resolution practice. He returned to private ADR work in June 2019.
Before opening his private dispute resolution practice in 2002, Mr. Greenberg served as Chair/Chief Administrative Appeals Judge of the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board ("ARB"). The jurisdiction of the ARB includes whistleblower-type employment discrimination appeals under federal environmental, nuclear, and transportation laws, as well as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; cases under the Davis-Bacon Act and Service Contract Act; civil rights prosecutions under Executive Order 11246 and the Rehabilitation Act; and appeals under a variety of other statutes, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, Child Labor Act, Migrant and Seasonal Farm-Workers Protection Act and the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
During his tenure as the ARB’s Chief Judge, Mr. Greenberg also served as the Labor Department's alternate EEO decisionmaker, responsible for investigating and deciding select internal EEO complaints filed against the Labor Department by agency employees.
From 1987 to 1998, Mr. Greenberg was an attorney in private practice in Washington, D.C. His practice included litigation under the NLRA, FLRA, and federal and state prevailing wage laws; legislative and regulatory matters in the fields of labor standards, health/safety, and worker training and licensure; and developing and managing government grants. A substantial portion of his legal practice focused on construction industry issues. |