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Ronald W. Novotny 
Los Angeles, California
phone (213) 620-0460
fax (213) 624-4840
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RONALD W. NOVOTNY specializes in the field of labor and employment law, representing and advising management in union-employer relations, the defense of employment discrimination and harassment claims, compliance with the state and federal wage and hour laws, the development of compliant employment policies and manuals, and the arbitration of employment and union-related claims.

Mr. Novotny has written a number of published articles in the employment law field, and regularly addresses audiences on employment law topics.  He has published articles on retaliation and sexual harassment prevention in the California Lawyer and California Employment Law magazines, and on wage and hour law developments in Compensation and Benefits Review.  He has also spoken on the disability and other anti-discrimination laws before the USC Marshall School of Business and National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, of which he is a member.  In addition, he edits the firm's quarterly newsletter, Management News.  

Mr. Novotny is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Sections of the American Bar and California State Bar Associations.

Areas of Practice:
Labor & Employment:
Collective Bargaining
Discrimination
Employment Policies & Agreements
Handbooks & Personnel Manuals
Harassment Investigation & Training
Employment Litigation
Union & Employee Relations
Wage & Hour Advice
Wrongful Termination Defense
Litigation:
Class Action defense
ERISA claims
Labor & Employment Cases
NLRB and union-related arbitrations
Wage and hour matters
Bar Admissions:
California, 1981
Education:
University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, 1981
J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
Honors: Tony Patino Fellow, 1981


University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1978
B.A., Bachelor of Arts, English


Representative Cases:
LAWI/CSA Consolidators, Inc. v. Wholesale and Retail Food Distribution, Teamsters Local 63, 849 F.2d 1236 (9th Cir. 1988)
Teamsters Local 315 v. NLRB, 20 F.3d 1017 (9th Cir.1994) enforcing 306 NLRB 616 (  1992)
So. Cal. Chapter ABC JAC v. State of California, 4 Cal. 4th 422 (  1992)
Inter-Modal Employees Assoc. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, 80 F.3d 348 (9th Cir. 1996)

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