Julian Gross is the Director of the Community Benefits Law Center, a project of the Partnership for Working Families. The CBLC provides legal assistance to community-based organizations, labor unions, and other advocates in their campaigns for economic justice. Julian has represented coalitions of community-based organizations in negotiation of many ground-breaking community benefits agreements. He has also drafted numerous local hiring and contracting policies, and has worked on living wage policies and many other community economic development initiatives.

Julian attended Boalt Hall School of Law and the University of Virginia. He was a Skadden Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco – Employment Law Center, where he spent the first four years of his legal career. Julian has authored several publications and articles on community benefits agreements and related advocacy strategies. He is a practitioner in residence at the U.C. Hastings College of Law’s Civil Justice Clinic.

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