Ben Hollander

Ben Hollander joined Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss in 2026 where he practices union-side labor law and plaintiffs’-side employment law.  Prior to joining the firm, he clerked for the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and he was an associate at the union-side labor law and employee benefits firm Friedman & Anspach.

Mr. Hollander graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law with specializations in Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies.   During law school, Mr. Hollander was a co-chair of the Labor and Employment Law Association and the Labor and Economic Justice Clinic.  He also participated in the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic and he was a staff editor for the Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture, and Resistance.  Mr. Hollander authored a paper titled It’s the Same Story the Crow Told Me: Uber’s Invocation of Newness as an Old Employer Tactic.   Publication is forthcoming in the ABA J. Lab. & Emp. L.  He spent his law school summers with Bush Gottlieb, Cohen Weiss and Simon, and the California Teachers’ Association.

Prior to law school, Mr. Hollander spent four years as an organizer with UNITE HERE Local 25, where he supported union members’ efforts to build workplace democracy and power and he worked on campaigns that successfully organized thousands of nonunion employees.  Mr. Hollander graduated from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 2016.  As an undergraduate, he conducted first contract research with Professor Kate Bronfenbrenner.