Solving problems / avoiding litigation through legal compliance, mediation and agency representation. Hundreds of real world employment law cases managed, plaintiff & defendant, with civil litigation experience in California, Washington & Alaska courts.
Board level executive experience, managing multi-million dollar lines of business, multi-state P & L responsibility, development and leadership of high performance professionals.
Strategic advisor to several Fortune companies and SF Bay Area emerging companies.
Notable Experiences
Contract & Greivance Negotiator: Teamsters Union.
Breakthrough Leadership Training: Transformational Consulting, Inc.
Executive Leadership & Performance Training: Harvard Graduate School of Business
Practice Leadership: Deloitte & Touche, The Wyatt Company (Towers Watson)
Governor at Large, Hi-Tech Businesses: Society of Human Resource Management
Adjunct Law Professor, Employment Law / Corporations; SVU, College of Law
Tom's practice emphasizes the management of employment law claims and people issues in business. In one manner of another, he has acted as a strong leader in these activities for over forty years.
Many Bay Area companies have used Tom as a legal advisor and strategic consultant; including a healthy percentage of Silicon Valley's high technology companies. Tom remembers when their HR systems were sticky notes.
Tom and his wife Susan have lived in Pleasanton since returning to the SF Bay Area in 1998, and their 3 children are University/Graduate school age. Tom is a avid bay area cyclist ... and former windsurf instructor.