
Harry M. DeCourcy focuses his practice exclusively on employment and labor law. He has extensive experience in California workers' compensation law with an emphasis on its direct impact on employers and its interrelation with other employment laws. These include accommodations, leaves of absence and retaliation. His background extends to representing clients, big and small, in employment civil litigation, arbitration and agency proceedings. He also has experience counseling clients with employees suffering from substance use and related addiction issues.
Harry regularly handles matters venued before state and federal courts as well as various government agencies, including the California Civil Rights Department, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, United States Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board, and the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. He represents clients in mediation and in the litigation of wage and hour class actions and claims involving employment disability, discrimination, retaliation and harassment.
In addition, Harry regularly counsels employers in litigation avoidance strategies involving workers' compensation issues, disability accommodation and leave issues, employee substance use and addiction issues, as well as related policy implementation. He has lectured to human resources groups on the subject of California workers' compensation and related employment law. He is a contributing author to Littler's annual employer book series, The California Employer, and is a member if the firm’s workers’ compensation, wage and hour, and drug and alcohol practice groups.