Biography

Mr. Breen is Of Counsel in the Labor and Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Mr. Breen specializes in employment law litigation and counseling and also has a broad range of experience in business litigation. His employment litigation experience covers wrongful discharge and retaliation claims involving alleged race, age and sex discrimination, sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, FMLA, CFRA, ADA, disability, and other employment issues. He also counsels companies of all sizes in litigation avoidance and provides preventive counseling in all workplace matters including wage and hour claims and other alleged Labor Code violations. His business litigation experience emphasizes breach of contract, fraud, and unfair business practices claims.

Mr. Breen has been published on a variety of employment law topics in a number of publications including Corporate Counsel Magazine. He lectures frequently to professional organizations and human resources groups including the Association of Corporate Counsel of America and the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA), where he serves on the Legislative Affairs Committee and as an inaugural board member of NCHRA’s San Francisco/Marin Chapter.

He is active in the legal community, and is the current president of the Northern California Irish American Bar Association which featured California Supreme Court Associate Justice Carol Corrigan as the group’s guest speaker in June, 2007. He is active in the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Alumni Association, and is an inaugural member of the UC Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship Alumni Leadership Committee.

Mr. Breen is a native San Franciscan. He received his Bachelor of Science in accounting and finance from the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business where he earned academic distinction as a Regents’ Scholar. He was awarded his J.D. by the UCLA School of Law.

Education

J.D., UCLA School of Law (1985)

B.S., University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (1982)

Admissions

• California

Courts

• U.S. District Court for the Central and Northern Districts of California