Carl Herbold, Ph.D., J.D.

General Counsel & Advisory Board Member
    Lawyer - Buxbaum & Chakmak

Carl F. Herbold graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Honors History in 1962. He received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was president of Corbey Court, in 1968. Mr. Herbold was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1968. He also received the M.Phil and PhD. degrees in history from the Yale Graduate School in 1968 and 1973, respectively. After a teaching career at Yale, Rutgers University, the University of New Mexico, and Pomona College, including a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Peru, he became a member of the California Bar in 1981.

Mr. Herbold practiced at Musick, Peeler & Garrett in Los Angeles, Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Stromberg in Newport Beach, and Best, Best & Kreiger in Riverside before establishing his own practice in Claremont in 1991. He joined Buxbaum & Chakmak as of counsel in 1999.

Mr. Herbold concentrates his practice in employment law (representing employees and employers in all matters except worker’s compensation, benefits, and collective bargaining), as well as general business law. He also specializes in representing nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations and represents a number of local, state-wide and national organizations. In addition, he serves as a mediator and has assisted in the settlement of over 50 lawsuits.

Mr. Herbold has been president of the boards of the Eastern (Los Angeles County) Bar Association, the San Gabriel Valley Lawyer Referral Service, and several local charitable organizations; he is a board member of several others. He is a member of the Labor and Employment Law sections of the American Bar Association, the California Bar, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and has lectured on topics in employment law to professional groups. He is also the past chair of the Committee on Nonprofit Corporations and Unincorporated Associations of the Business Law Section of the California Bar.

Mr. Herbold is fluent in Spanish, and has a speaking and reading ability in both French and Portuguese.