Ezekiel Carder is a shareholder in Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld’s Emeryville office as well as a member of WRR’s Management Committee. Mr. Carder first joined the firm in 2000 and spent four years practicing labor law with WRR before moving to a union-side labor firm in New York, where he represented unions and Taft-Hartley benefit funds in collections matters, ERISA litigation and bankruptcy proceedings while also advising union clients on internal union matters, LMRDA reporting requirements, and representing unions and union members in arbitration. Mr. Carder rejoined WRR in 2010.

Mr. Carder’s practice focuses on ERISA and employee benefits, where he has developed a specialty representing the firm’s Taft-Hartley benefit fund clients in a variety of matters, including trust fund collection and payroll audits, withdrawal liability and pension funding issues, health care reform, benefit denial, refund issues, and legal issues related to trust fund administration. Mr. Carder also counsels and represents unions and union members on collective bargaining, arbitration, labor, employment, and related litigation matters. 

Mr. Carder earned his juris doctor with a certificate in environmental and natural resources law from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College (now Lewis & Clark Law School) in 1999 and received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1995 with a major in politics.

Mr. Carder is licensed to practice in California, New York and Alaska.