| The Employer Resource Institute is proud to bring you leading California experts in the fields of employment law and human resources. Speakers for the California Employment Law Update include:
Kathryn Davis, Esq.
Morrison & Foerster
Kathryn Davis's practice focuses on all aspects of labor and employment law. She is the author of "Banners, Rats, and Other Inflatable Toys: Do They Constitute Picket Activity? Do They Violate Section 8(b)(4)?" and "Are Your Computer Professionals Really Exempt?" Davis has lectured on a variety of topics, including how to conduct an internal wage and hour audit and wage and hour fundamentals.
Marjorie Fochtman, Esq.
Nixon Peabody
Marjorie Fochtman heads Nixon Peabody's West Coast Wage/Hour Team. She has extensive experience in wage and hour matters, representing employers in Department of Labor and California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement audits, labor commissioner hearings, and in state and federal court, both in individual wage claims and class actions. She also represents employers in preventive employment and labor law; discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful discharge litigation; employment training; and preparing personnel policies and procedures.
Ron Garrity, Esq.
Simpson, Garrity & Innes
Ron Garrity has effectively represented employers before a variety of Courts and agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the National Labor Relations Board. He advises companies on a variety of key labor and employment law matters, including wrongful termination, drug testing, plant closures, leave of absence requirements, discrimination, harassment, affirmative action, privacy issues, proprietary information, wage and hour matters, and union relations.
Tiffany Gomez, Esq.
Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy
Tiffany Gomez regularly counsels employers on wage and hour issues and methods to prevent legal claims, including how to develop and implement employee handbooks and personnel policies. Tiffany also represents employers at all stages of litigation. She specializes in defending employers in civil litigation and administrative proceedings against allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination and employment-related torts.
Diana Gregory, SPHR
Administaff
Diana Gregory is a senior human resources specialist with Administaff, a professional employer organization that offers full-service human resources solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. Gregory has more than 20 years of hands-on, multiple industry human resources experience, enabling her to provide guidance to business owners and managers of small and medium-sized businesses in human resources strategies, policy development and implementation, employee relations, and employment law compliance.
Laura Innes, Esq.
Simpson, Garrity & Innes
Laura Innes is engaged exclusively in the practice of labor and employment law. Her practice combines preventive counseling for clients with civil and administrative litigation defense, and she has practiced extensively in state and federal court and before numerous state and federal agencies. In addition to litigation and preventive counseling, Ms. Innes effectively employs alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation and arbitration, to efficiently and effectively resolve sensitive employment disputes.
Marc Jacuzzi, Esq.
Simpson, Garrity & Innes
Marc Jacuzzi has broad experience in employment law matters. He has represented numerous employers as defendants in civil rights actions (including claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), and other state discrimination statutes), trade secret misappropriation claims, wage claims, and wrongful termination claims.
Allen Kato, Esq.
Fenwick & West
Allen Kato's practice concentrates exclusively on representing management in wage and hour, affirmative action and EEO compliance, unfair competition and trade secret matters and litigating individual and class action wage and hour, wrongful discharge employment discrimination, and unfair competition matters before courts and agencies. He also trains managers & HR professionals on a regular basis.
Diane O'Malley, Esq.
Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy
Diane O'Malley, a Labor and Employment partner in Hanson's San Francisco office, concentrates her practice on employment-related litigation, counseling and policy drafting for private and public sector employers. O'Malley has recognized expertise in defending employers in discrimination claims, wage claims and the handling of grievance arbitrations. O'Malley also has significant experience in negotiating collective bargaining agreements and drafting employment policies and contracts for employers.
Jeffrey Tanenbaum, Esq.
Nixon Peabody
Jeffrey Tanenbaum chairs the firm's labor and employment practice group and the firm's Occupational Safety & Health (OSHA) team. He represents employers in employment and labor relations litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Mr. Tanenbaum has extensive experience in, and has written and lectured on, OSHA, Cal-OSHA, discriminatory and negligent hiring, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, collective bargaining, and arbitrations.
Mary Topliff, Esq.
Law Offices of Mary L. Topliff
Mary Topliff specializes in employment law counseling, training and compliance. Her proactive approach to employee relations issues offers practical solutions consistent with legal requirements and good management principles. She regularly advises business owners and human resources professionals on all aspects of workplace issues, and designs and implements customized training and resource tools on various subjects, including harassment prevention, employment law for managers, exempt/nonexempt job classifications, disability accommodations and leaves of absence.
Allison West, Esq., SPHR
Employment Practices Specialists
As principal for Employment Practices Specialists, Allison West specializes in developing and delivering training programs that address employment law and human resource issues both in the US and internationally. Her expertise also includes conducting workplace investigations; one-on-one sensitivity training for managers and employees concerning harassment, discrimination and diversity awareness issues; coaching managers and employees with disciplinary and/or behavioral problems; providing expert witness assistance; and customizing employee handbooks, policies and procedures.
Rhoma Young
Rhoma Young & Associates
Since 1983, Rhoma Young has been principal of Rhoma Young & Associates, management consultants in personnel practices and public policy issues. Her consulting encompasses planning and problem avoidance strategies in all facets of employee and labor relations. This centers on investigating, analyzing and resolving potentially "hot," costly and politically sensitive problems. Preventive strategies include designing performance appraisal/management systems, workforce reduction planning, formal/informal mediation and tailored management training.
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