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Garry G. Mathiason is the chairman and founder of ELT. He is also a senior shareholder of Littler Mendelson, resident in the San Francisco office. Garry oversees the firm'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. Garry has personally supervised Littler 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 originated several of Littler's preventive employment law programs, and structures in-house employment law training programs. He has drafted model legislation on workplace violence, and appeared frequently on national radio and television regarding violence prevention in the workplace. Garry has developed Littler's alternative dispute resolution program, and has participated with Professor Arthur Miller of Harvard in the development of a video-training program on ADR. Garry is widely recognized as a leading authority on employment law trends in the United States. Garry received his J.D. from Stanford Law School. At Stanford, he was a Member of the Board of Editors and served on the Stanford Law Review. He received his B.S., from Northwestern University, School of Speech where he was a Clarion DeWitte Hardy Scholar. Garry has authored and/or edited 22 employment law books and written over 50 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. Garry 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. | 