Representative Experience
Wrongful termination litigation

Discrimination claims

Alternative dispute resolutions, including AAA employment dispute, mediation and arbitration

Negotiations and hearings

Prior Experience
Private practice in the employment law department of Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles

Private practice in San Diego in the employment law department of Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye

Judicial Externship with the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Representative Clients
Health care, banking, entertainment, telecommunications and educational institutions

Publications and Presentations
Best Practices in FMLA Administration, FMLA Update 2001, Bellevue, Washington, October 13, 2001

Privacy in the Workplace, State and Federal Personnel Laws in Washington, Seattle, Washington, September 12-13, 2001

The Emerging Right to Privacy in the Workplace and Collective Bargaining: Drug Testing, Workplace Searches and AIDS Policies, ABA Committee on Development of the Law under the National Labor Relations Act, Midwinter Meeting, 1988 (Co-author, Edwin V. Woodsome, Jr.)

The Developing Labor Law--Research and Update Chapter 30, Jurisdiction Coverage of the Act (1986 and 1987)

The Future of Fetal Research in California: A Proposal for Change, 15 San Diego Law Review 859 (1978)

Memberships and Activities
California and Washington State Bar Associations

Education
LL.M., concentration in employment law, Yale University School of Law, 1985

• Recipient, graduate tuition fellowship

J.D., magna cum laude, University of San Diego School of Law, 1979

• Executive notes and comments editor, San Diego Law Review
  
• Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award
  
• Recipient, Merit Scholarship

B.A. in Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 1976