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The Speakers

The Employer Resource Institute is proud to bring you leading California employment attorneys as your instructors for this one-day intensive course.

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San Francisco—June 5, 2008
San Diego—June 12, 2008
San Jose—June 19, 2008


San Francisco—June 5 

Laura Innes, Esq.
Simpson, Garrity & Innes, PC

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, 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, PC

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 Employ- ment 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, LLP

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 and HR professionals on a regular basis.

Myron D. (Mike) Moye, Esq.
Hanson Bridgett, LLP

Moye specializes in litigation and counseling related to employment and labor law matters. He represents employers in employment disputes in state and federal court, arbitrations, administrative hearings and before government agencies. In addition, he provides preventive advice, counsel and training to employers on a variety of employment law issues, including union organizing activity and collective bargaining.


San Diego—June 12 

Paul Bressan, Esq.
Buchalter Nemer, PLC

Bressan is a shareholder in the firm's Los Angeles office and chair of the Labor and Employment Practice Group. For 30 years, he has focused his practice on labor and employment law, representing management. Bressan practices before federal and state courts and the National Labor Relations Board, and represents clients in proceedings before various agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state employment agencies throughout the United States.

Marie Burke Kenny, Esq.
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, LLP

Kenny represents employers in federal and state court litigation involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, unfair competition and wage and hour claims. She also represents employers before state and federal agencies and has extensive experience counseling employers regarding all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, discipline, termination, employment contracts, trade secret protection, privacy, workplace investigations, leaves of absence, and employment policies and practices.

Elizabeth Murphy, Esq.
Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

Murphy, a partner in HRO's Los Angeles office, is a member of the Employment and Labor Practice Group. She represents California and nationwide employers in all aspects of employee relations, including: preparing employment policies and handbooks, negotiating and preparing employment and severance agreements, training managers and supervisors in discrimination and harassment issues, and defending employers in discrimination, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, wage and hour, unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets matters. She also provides advice and counsel on day-to-day personnel issues.

Leonid (Lonny) Zilberman, Esq.
Wilson Petty Kosmo & Turner, LLP

Zilberman is a partner in the firm's Employment Practice Group, where his practice focuses exclusively on counseling, training, and defending employers throughout California. He works with companies to find practical, cost-effective solutions to their workforce problems, with the primary goal of avoiding lawsuits, and routinely advises clients on a broad range of employment issues, such as complying with anti-discrimination and harassment laws, wage and hour compliance, and enforcement of agreements to protect trade secrets.


San Jose—June 19 

Laura Innes, Esq.
Simpson, Garrity & Innes, PC

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, 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, PC

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 Employ- ment 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, LLP

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 and HR professionals on a regular basis.

Stuart Miller, Esq.
Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

Miller regularly counsels employers on a wide range of employment and labor law issues, including termination and other disciplinary decisions, wage and hour issues, leaves of absence questions and developing effective personnel policies and procedures. He has successfully and efficiently defended employers in well over a hundred employment related lawsuits on behalf of large and small employers in a broad range of industries.


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