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Eli W. Gould
Eli is an employment attorney who provides a full range of legal services on employment and labor issues confronting employers and managers. Examples of the services Eli provides include advice and counsel on all aspects of the employment relationship, preventative training on legal pitfalls confronting employers in California, advice and drafting expertise on equity and other employee compensation plans, advice on wage and hour and employee classification issues, counsel on reductions-in-force, assistance on employment issues related to mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate transactions, representation in union-management negotiations and relationships, and representation in all aspects of employment-related litigation.
Eli works closely with Robert Pia, as well as MBV Law's other litigation attorneys on employment-related matters. As a team, Eli, Robert and others bring breadth and depth to MBV Law's employment practice and are well equipped to handle any employment matter for MBV Law's clients.
Before joining MBV Law, Eli was the senior employment attorney for the Silicon Valley office of Bingham McCutchen (formerly McCutchen, Doyle, Brown, and Enersen), a national law firm of over 800 attorneys. At Bingham McCutchen Eli represented many emerging technology clients on all aspects of employment and equity compensation, as well as a number of larger, more established companies, including Stanford University, Sun Microsystems, Veritas Software and Applied Biosystems. Eli continues to represent small, medium and large multi-national employers at MBV Law.
Originally from the Mid-West, Eli received his B.A. in Philosophy from DePauw University in Indiana. Eli began his legal in 1986 after receiving his J.D. from Cornell Law School. In 1991, Eli became in-house employment counsel for Pacific Bell, where he represented the telecommunications giant on employment, downsizing and union issues for four years. In 1995, Eli returned to McCutchen to join its then brand-new Silicon Valley office. Eli has practiced employment and labor law for his entire legal career. He now lives in San Francisco and is happy to have shed his daily commute to Palo Alto.
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eli@mbvlaw.com
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