With more than 400 attorneys and 28 offices in major metropolitan areas nationwide, Littler Mendelson is the largest law firm in the country exclusively devoted to representing management in employment, employee benefits and labor law matters. Littler is dedicated to being the world leader in employment law. In 1942, Robert Littler, the Pacific Coast director of the War Labor Board, and Thomas Coakley, a California deputy and attorney general, resigned their positions to form the first law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area to specialize exclusively in representing employers in labor law. The firm successfully represented businesses faced with government takeover before the War Labor Board and Salary Stabilization Commission. Arthur Mendelson joined the Firm in 1944.