Joshua L.Ditelberg

Partner

Josh provides leadership in developing creative and practical solutions to his clients' labor and employment challenges.


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Josh achieves client business objectives by creating economic value and minimizing risk in labor and employment matters arising from corporate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; subcontracting and outsourcing; workforce reductions; facility closings, relocations, and consolidations; corporate reorganizations; bankruptcy; and ESOPs. He co-chairs Seyfarth's Workplace Restructuring and Transactions group, and is a leading labor relations practitioner.

Over his career, Josh has been "involved in it all" when it comes to labor relations and the labor and employment aspects of transactions, business restructuring, and workforce reductions. He has represented clients in some of the most notable matters in the field for 30 years, encompassing the scope of joint employment; defining protected concerted activity under the NLRA; nationally prominent strikes and lockouts; defining the subjects that may be implemented following a lawful bargaining impasse; and determining what constitutes an unlawful secondary boycott.

Josh looks for opportunities to strategically reform the law in ways that recognize the workplace concerns of employers. He draws upon the vast knowledge he acquired as a law clerk to a federal Court of Appeals judge and to a state Supreme Court justice, as an adjunct professor of law, and as a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Josh can advance his clients' interests at every stage of legal practice. He has briefed and argued multiple federal appeals, first-chaired numerous arbitrations and NLRB proceedings, bargained a range of labor agreements, managed the labor and employment portions of large-scale transactions, and shepherded high-profile workforce reductions. He leverages his extensive experience to deliver efficient results.

Josh loves getting in the trenches with his Seyfarth colleagues to achieve favorable outcomes for his clients. Whether in collective bargaining, transactional work, litigation, or strategic counseling, labor and employment law frequently demands strong advocacy in the face of passionate opposition. With his Seyfarth team, Josh knows he can provide high-quality advocacy and protect his clients' interests.

  • JD, University of Michigan Law School

    Magna cum laude
    Order of the Coif

  • BA, University of Pennsylvania
    Philosophy and History

    Summa cum laude
    Phi Beta Kappa
    National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar
    University Scholar
    Benjamin Franklin Scholar

  • MA, University of Pennsylvania
    History
  • District of Columbia
  • Illinois
  • Massachusetts
  • US Court of Appeals, First Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit
  • US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • US District Court, District of Massachusetts