Profile

Areas of practice include employment advice and counseling, training on harassment, discrimination, workplace violence, and other personnel-related matters, investigations, employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination advice and litigation.

Experience

• Represented management clients in all aspects of employment law.
• Conducted all aspects of employment-related litigation.
• Lead counsel in labor arbitrations for labor management clients in matters involving employee discharge and discipline, contract interpretation and work jurisdiction disputes.
• Appellate counsel in Teamsters Local 315 v. Union Oil Co. of California, 856 F.2d 1307 (9th Cir. 1998)

Past Employment

California Supreme Court, San Francisco, CA

• Judicial extern for the Honorable Malcolm M. Lucas, Associate Justice.

Labor and Employment Group - San Francisco, California

• Partner
• Employment law practice

Thelen Reid & Priest LLP - San Francisco, California

• Associate
• Employment law practice

Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff, Tichey & Mathiason - San Francisco, CA

• Associate
• Employment law practice

Education/Affiliations

BA, University of San Francisco, Magna Cum Laude, May, 1982

J.D. University of San Francisco School of Law, May, 1986

Professional member, State Bar of California # 126840, active since 1986

Admitted to all State and Federal courts in California

Personal Pursuits

Breeding, showing and sales of Arabian horses

 

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