Emphasis
Litigation Strategy and Planning
Employment Law Training and Trend Analysis
Workplace Violence Prevention
ADR Policy Development
Corporate Compliance and Ethics
Traditional Labor Law
Biography
Garry G. Mathiason is a senior shareholder of Littler Mendelson, resident in the San Francisco office. Mr. Mathiason has personally supervised the Firm's attorneys on over 1,000 employment and labor litigation matters and currently defends employers in complex wage & hour and discrimination class action cases. Based on his litigation experience, he has originated several of the Littler's preventive employment law programs and structures in-house employment law training programs. He has drafted model legislation on workplace violence and has appeared frequently on national radio and television regarding violence prevention in the workplace. Mr. Mathiason has developed the Firm's alternative dispute resolution program and has participated with Professor Arthur Miller of Harvard in the development of a video-training program on ADR. Mr. Mathiason is widely recognized as a leading authority on employment law trends in the United States.
Mr. Mathiason oversees the Littler's Corporate Compliance Practice Group. He serves as Chair of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group's (OCEG's) Employment and Labor Law Domain writing legal requirements and guidelines for business. Mr. Mathiason is the chairman and founder of Employment Law Training, Inc.™ (ELT), an on-line legal compliance training company with 4 million users.
Education
J.D., Stanford Law School, 1971
Member of the Board of Editors and served on the Stanford Law Review
B.S., Northwestern University, School of Speech
Clarion DeWitt Hardy Scholar
Mr. Mathiason commenced his legal career with the National Labor Relations Board in San Francisco.
Publications
Mr. Mathiason has authored and/or edited 22 employment law books and written over 100 published articles on workplace issues. He has been interviewed and quoted on employment topics in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time and scores of other national and regional publications.
Lectures & Presentations
Mr. Mathiason has been a frequent lecturer and writer for ALI-ABA, Practicing Law Institute, U.S. and California Chambers of Commerce, The Corporate Counsel Institute, The Conference Board, Society for Human Resources, and the American Management Associations.
Honors & Awards
Mr. Mathiason has been identified by the National Law Journal on its list of the 100 most influential attorneys in the nation. He is listed in the The Best Lawyers in America. After thoroughly researching more than 20,000 employment attorneys, he was recognized in 2008 by Human Resource Executive as one of the nation's top 10 most powerful employment attorneys. Mr. Mathiason is a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He was been recognized in the August 2010 issue of Staffing Industry Review as one of the "25 Most Powerful People in Staffing."
Representative Clients
American Airlines
Dow Chemical
Cisco Systems
Franklin Templeton
Activities
California State Bar
Mr. Mathiason is the former Chair of the Labor Law Division of the American Bar Association Forum Committee on the Construction Industry.
News
Mr. Mathiason has appeared on the BBC, NHK in Japan, NBC National News, CNN, ABC, and developed a documentary on workplace violence for CBS (San Francisco).