Representative Experience
Advice and counsel regarding personnel policies and procedures, discipline and discharge, leave laws, wage and hour laws, independent contractors, workers’ compensation coverage issues, union organizing, and assessment and analysis of workplace diversity issues

Defense of state and federal employment discrimination agency charges and lawsuits and grievance arbitration

Training and education in discipline and discharge, sexual harassment, human resource issues, union organizing, wage and hour regulations, leave laws, and workplace diversity

Prior Experience
Personnel and safety director for a multi-state manufacturing company, including negotiating and administering union contracts, developing personnel policies and procedures, grievance processing, defending grievance arbitration and state and federal agency discrimination charges, developing affirmative action plan and safety programs, and recruiting and hiring personnel

Staff representative for wood products industry employer relations association, including advice and counsel on personnel policies and procedures, administration of collective bargaining agreements, grievance processing; provide supervisory training in discipline and discharge, sexual harassment, drugs and alcohol and AIDS in the workplace, and equal employment opportunity/affirmative action

Representative Clients
Northwest Permanente
General Motors
Tyson Foods
Payless Drug
Oregon Transfer Company
Jubitz Corp.
National College of Naturopathic Medicine
McCormick & Schmick’s
Shilo Inns Management Company

Publications and Presentations
Authors articles and frequently speaks on state and federal leave laws, state and federal wage and hour laws, ADA, sexual harassment, discipline and discharge, union avoidance, non-competition and confidentiality agreements, workplace privacy and technology, independent contractors, employment policies and handbooks

Co-author, "Blogging and Text/Instant Messaging in the Workplace," Human Resources 2007, Winter Edition

Honors, Memberships and Activities
Selected to "Super Lawyers," Oregon Law & Politics, 2006

Editorial Review Board Member, Oregon State Bar Association Civil Rights Division Newsletter

American Bar Association

Oregon State Bar Association

Multnomah County Bar Association

Board Member, YWCA of Greater Portland

Board Member, Oregon Osteopathic Foundation

Advisory Board Member, Portland State University Business Outreach Program

Education
J.D., Willamette University College of Law, 1985

B.S., Willamette University, 1981