Joseph Andrew Creitz
Since 1995, Joe has specialized in ERISA counseling and litigation. He has represented hundreds of ERISA benefit plan participants and beneficiaries, in individual benefits suits, breach of fiduciary duty litigation, and ERISA class action litigation. From 2003 to 2005 he represented the United States Secretary of Labor in ERISA litigation and investigations.
In 2012, Joe won the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year ("CLAY") award. In 2019, Super Lawyers magazine ranked Joe among the Top 100 Northern California Super Lawyers, after including Joe as an employee benefits Super Lawyer for 6 years running. In 2019, Best Lawyers magazine also recognized Creitz & Serebin, and conferred its "2019 Lawyer of the Year" award on Joe in the employee benefits category.
- Golden Gate University School of Law
- LL.M. | Taxation
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- Honors: Cum Laude
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- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- J.D. (1992) | Law
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- University of Wisconsin - Madison
- B.S. (1989) | U.S. History
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- Honors: Departmental Distinction in U.S. History; certificate awarded in Women's Studies
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- Trial Attorney
- The Law Office of Joseph A. Creitz, P.C.
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- Adjunct Professor and Writing Specialist
- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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- Trial Attorney
- United States Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor
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- General Counsel
- 415, Inc.
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- Associate
- Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld
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- Associate
- Bell, Rosenberg & Hughes
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- Judicial Extern
- Chief Judge Thelton Henderson, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
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- Top 100 Northern California Superlawyers
- Super Lawyers
- Lawyer of the Year
- Best Lawyers
- Best Teacher - Legal Writing and Research
- U.C. Hastings College of the Law
- Northern California Employee Benefits Super Lawyer, 2014-2019
- Super Lawyers
- 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Northern California Super Lawyer
- California Lawyer Attorney of the Year, 2012
- California Lawyer Magazine
- For successfully litigating Cyr v. Reliance Life Ins. Co. before an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit, and thereby fixing the law in the Ninth Circuit concerning who is an appropriate defendant to a claim for benefits under ERISA.
- California State Bar # 169552
- Member
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- California
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- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- Consumer Law
- Class Action, Lemon Law
- Insurance Bad Faith
- English: Spoken, Written
- German: Spoken, Written
- Italian: Spoken, Written
- Thai: Spoken, Written