Employment

• Sexual harassment, unwanted touching, male v. male, company investigated and discharged two employees, main issue was whether management had notice.
  

• Tried a case involving a large association of physicians in a dispute with its physician president regarding wrongful termination, breach of contract, libel and slander
  

• Appointed as a Referee by a state court complex case department in a class action wage & hour/wrongful termination matter involving allegations of extreme abuse of overtime and break time regulations and assertions of plaintiff immigration fraud
  

• Mediated several matters involving executive compensation, severance and non-compete agreements
  

• Mediated a claim of wrongful discharge and unpaid compensation by the pro at a prominent golf course, with counter-allegations that the pro had skimmed receipts
  

• Mediated a claim of wrongful discharge and false promise, with allegations by the defendant of misrepresentations and misconduct by the plaintiff
  

• Mediated a wrongful discharge claim against an auto dealership, involving assertions of withheld commissions
  

• Mediated numerous cases involving claims by employees, typically of independent restaurants, of wage & hour violations, inevitably involving very poor or no record keeping by defendant
  

• Served as a negotiator in a reduction of force of several thousand individuals for a major computer manufacturer
  

• Mediated a claim by a city employee against the city employer with claims of intrigue, sexual impropriety, liability, etc.
  

• Appointed by the Federal Court as Special Master in a whistleblower case involving technology incorporated into a nuclear missile warhead