Robert Bernstein practices in the firm's St. Louis office and serves as Office Head. For nearly 29 years, Mr. Bernstein has developed an extensive labor and employment practice, exclusively representing multinational and domestic corporations on both a regional and national basis, with an emphasis in employment litigation and counseling. He handles class and collective actions covering the full panoply of federal and state anti-discrimination and wage and hour laws.

Mr. Bernstein also lectures and writes extensively throughout the United States and overseas on a wide array of employment law issues. He was selected for inclusion in the National Registry of Who's Who. He also is privileged to sit on the LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Legal Advisory Board and Chair of the Board's Labor & Employment sub-committee.

Prior to joining Constangy, Mr. Bernstein was a partner at Epstein Becker & Green for many years, where he was one of five members of the Executive Committee, a member of the Firm’s Board of Directors and Chair of the Firm’s National Labor Department Steering Committee.  Mr. Bernstein was also a partner at Reed Smith, where he chaired the Firm’s Global Marketing Team.

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Publications

• "Religious Accommodation in the Workplace: What Employers and Lawyers Need to Know," Aspatore Thought Leadership: Employment Law 2012, Contributing Author
• "New Jersey's Appellate Division Finds Internal Complaints and Civil Lawsuits "Whistle-Blowing Activity" Under CEPA" (April 2011)
• "New Jersey Is First State In The Nation To Adopt Law Prohibiting Job Ads Excluding Unemployed Applicants" (April 2011) 
•  “Inside the Minds: The Impact of Supreme Court Employment Law Cases, 2011 Ed.,” Contributing Author, Aspatore Books
• “On the Horizon: Employer Liability for Employee Social Media Communications and Conduct” Aspatore Thought Leadership: Employment Law 2011, Contributing Author, Aspatore Books
• “Inside the Minds: The Impact of Supreme Court Employment Law Cases, 2010 Ed.,” Contributing Author, Aspatore Books
• “Combating the Increase in FLSA Litigation: Using Mandatory Arbitration Agreements to Preclude Collective Actions” National Law Journal
• “Supreme Court Issues Spector Opinion Affecting Reach of U.S. Labor and Employment Laws to Foreign Business Operations and Employees” The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (July, 2005)
• “Individual Liability Under ‘Whistleblower’ and Discriminatory Laws” The New Jersey Labor Letter, Volume I, No. 6 (June 2000)
• “Defining Disability Under the Law Against Discrimination” 148 New Jersey Law Journal (April 14, 1997)
• “Employee Drug Testing: Is it Permissible? N.J. Supreme Court Leaves Many Unanswered Questions” New Jersey Lawyer, Issue No. 158 (January 1994)
• “ADR Looks Good After Gilmer” 135 Supplement to New Jersey Law Journal (November 15, 1993)
• “Toys ‘R’ Us Departs from Prevailing Views” 134 New Jersey Law Journal (August 9, 1993)
• “Activist Court Deems Alcoholism a Handicap” 122 New Jersey law Journal (October 13, 1988)
• “Sexual Harassment in the Workplace” Spring Issue No. 119, New Jersey Lawyer (May, 1987)
• “Labor Law Consequences of the Sale of a Unionized Business” Labor Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 6, June, 1985, reprinted in Business Strategies, pp. 16, 987-16, 994 (August 17, 1985)
• “N.L.R.B. Rulings in Milwaukee Spring II and Otis Elevator II Expand Management’s Authority to Transfer Work Midterm of Its Labor Contract” Labor Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 6 (August 9, 1984)

Awards & Recognition

• AV® Peer Review Rated By Martindale-Hubbell
• Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals - Honors Edition, 2008-2009 
• Selected as a New Jersey Super Lawyer