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 Steven
M. Rehaut
Voice: (323) 938-3000 x390
Fax: (323) 937-9139
Experience
Steve Rehaut is a 1985 graduate of the U.C. Davis/King School of
Law.After serving as a law clerk to a federal district court judge
for one year, Steve began practicing law in 1986 at Gilbert &
Sackman, where he has remained ever since. Steve specializes in
the representation of defined benefit pension and health and welfare
plans, exclusively Taft-Hartley multiemployer plans.
Over the years Steve has worked extensively as lead or co-lead
counsel with, among others, the Sheet Metal Workers Health and Pension
Plans of Southern California, Arizona and Nevada; the Airconditioning
and Refrigeration Industry Joint Trust Funds; the Los Angeles Machinist
(Health) Benefit Trust, and the IBEW Local No. 952-Ventura Division
of Los Angeles County Chapter NECA Pension Trust Fund.
Steve's areas of specialization include plan design and administration,
which include keeping plans in compliance with ever-expanding federal
law and regulations, including HIPAA and COBRA, and working with
trustees on benefit issues. Steve also has considerable experience
litigating benefit issues (the ones that can't be resolved any other
way), fiduciary issues, and collection matters of all size and stripe.
In addition to his ERISA practice, Steve has arbitrated discharge
and contract arbitrations on behalf of the firm's union clients,
including UFCW Local 324. Originally from Chicago, Steve lives in
Palos Verdes with his wife Laurie Soriano, also a lawyer, and their
three children.
Education
- University of California, Davis (J.D., 1985) (editor, U.C. Davis
Law Review)
- University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1982)
- University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1978-79)
Memberships
- California State Bar; California State Bar Labor and Employment
Section
- Los Angeles County Bar Association Labor and Employment Section
- National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles chapter.
Publications
- "California’s SEERA vs. The Civil Service System:
Making State Employee Collective Bargaining Work", 18 U.C.
Davis L. Rev. 829 (1985).
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