Bruce J. Sarchet has focused his entire legal career on the representation of management in labor and employment law matters and has particular expertise in issues involving:

• Violence in the workplace
• Employment discrimination
• The Unionized Employer
• Public sector employment law

He regularly appears in state and federal courts and before the National Labor Relations Board on matters involving:

• The National Labor Relations Act
• Title VII
• The Americans with Disabilities Act
• The Family and Medical Leave Act
• California's Educational Employment Relations Act
• California's Meyers Milias Brown Act

With energy, enthusiasm, and intense focus, Bruce provides clients with superior quality work and exceptional client service and has earned a reputation as a hands-on problem solver. He consults with both private and public employers, including healthcare companies and California public school districts and other public agencies, and crafts practical, real world solutions to problems like dealing with difficult employees and recognizing and balancing business realities and necessities with the need to minimize exposure to litigation. He also offers compliance counseling.

For unionized employers, Bruce frequently serves as chief spokesperson in collective bargaining negotiations and provides representation in grievances and arbitration. He also represents employers during union organizing drives and unfair labor practice charges under the National Labor Relations Act.

An animated, effective and entertaining public speaker, Bruce regularly makes presentations to local professional organizations on labor and employment law topics and has also presented numerous in-house training sessions and workshops to management teams at private and public employers.

In addition to maintaining his daily law practice, Bruce is a member of the firm's five-attorney Management Committee, which handles the firm's operations. In this capacity, he oversees thirteen Littler offices in seven states. Prior to his selection to the Management Committee, he served as the office-managing shareholder for the firm's Sacramento office. He also is an active member of the following practice groups:

• Traditional Labor Law
• Public Sector
• Labor and Employment Law
• Healthcare Employers
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Corporate Compliance

Prior to attending law school, Bruce was a high school social studies teacher and basketball coach for three years.