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George Barron

George J. Barron, a partner with the California law firm of Donahue Gallagher Woods, was interviewed in a segment called "e-mails Aren't Water Cooler Conversations -- The Risks of Informality," for American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel. The show was titled “Focus on the Executive Employer: Best Practices and Leadership in Labor and Employment.”

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Mr. Barron is a partner and head of Donahue Gallagher Woods' labor and employment practice. He has more than 25 years of litigation experience representing management and employees in labor disputes involving wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and employer/employee relations. He also has significant experience with claims of defamation, false arrest, malicious prosecution and interference torts. Mr. Barron represents clients ranging from small businesses to large international companies with multiple locations. In addition to his litigation practice, he also advises employers and employees about employment policies and regulations, as well as arbitrating and mediating employment and attorneys' fees disputes.

Mr. Barron is particularly skilled at developing strategies that best represent his clients' interests while achieving quick resolution of disputes. He has successfully defended employers in individual and class-action suits brought by employees, unions and contract workers. He has extensive experience with cases in which employees have misrepresented their job experience and/or credentials on resumes, stolen from their employers and threatened coworkers and employers. Mr. Barron frequently has obtained temporary restraining orders on behalf of employers in cases of violent employees and strikers.

Mr. Barron has been litigating discrimination cases for employers for more than 25 years. His employment law practice emphasizes wrongful termination and discrimination, including sexual harassment and age, race, disability, sex and marital status. He has successfully represented major retailers and other large companies in individual and class-action cases alleging employment discrimination with exposures from $100,000 to more than $20,000,000.

Mr. Barron has successfully defended employers in numerous discrimination cases, achieving dismissals of multi-million-dollar lawsuits, summary judgments and total defense verdicts exonerating employers of all charges. In a recent case, he won a unanimous federal court jury verdict against a 30-year employee seeking substantial damages for disability discrimination.

Mr. Barron also maintains an active plaintiffs practice, having successfully represented employees in sexual harassment and discrimination cases against their supervisors and employers. Many of these cases have settled favorably for his clients without trial. Collectively, Mr. Barron has recovered millions of dollars for his clients within just the past few years. With cases in which employers have refused to settle, Mr. Barron has recovered substantial judgments in compensation for back pay and pain and suffering, and has had clients reinstated in their jobs. While many of the cases handled by Mr. Barron have received media attention, he follows the wishes of clients who choose to minimize media coverage for personal and professional reasons. His handling of both defense and plaintiff employment matters provides a uniquely thorough perspective for him to advise clients.

He represents his clients in hearings before governmental entities such as the Labor Commissioner, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the California Department of Fair Employment & Housing and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He has represented employers in settlement negotiations with union representatives and opposing counsel and, when settlement was not possible, has tried employer cases in 10 jury trials and 50 arbitrations.

Mr. Barron frequently speaks before business groups, bar associations and employers on employment-related topics, union grievances, arbitration and mediation. He has been called upon by media representatives to comment upon employment and labor issues, and has served as a panelist for legal publishers to provide guidance for future legal publications.

He earned his law degree in 1972 from the University of California at Los Angeles where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review. He is a member of the State Bar of California (Labor and Employment Sections), the Contra Costa County Bar Association and the Alameda County Bar Association.