Experience
Jeff Sloan, a founding partner of the firm, is a labor and employment lawyer with almost 40 years of experience representing public sector and nonprofit clients. His work spans collective bargaining negotiations, investigations, arbitrations, writ and appellate litigation, personnel and disciplinary matters, training, and matters under the jurisdiction of the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Before founding the firm, Jeff was a name partner and head of the public sector practice at a San Francisco labor and employment law boutique firm. Previous to that, he was San Francisco managing partner of a large, Los Angeles-based public sector labor and employment firm.
Before entering private practice, Jeff was the General Counsel of PERB, a Governor-appointed position in which he supervised the Board’s investigative, representation and litigation divisions. He oversaw thousands of unfair practice charge investigations; and either directly handled or supervised PERB’s complex litigation and injunctions in California’s various Superior Courts, Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Before joining PERB’s General Counsel’s office, Jeff served as the Governor-appointed Legal Counsel to the Chairman of PERB. Earlier in his career, Jeff was an Associate in a San Francisco-based law firm that represented both public and private sector unions.
Jeff has been a strong contributor to the development of California public sector labor law. A perennial “SuperLawyer” as designated by his peers, Jeff was named by the Daily Journal as one of the 25 most influential public sector lawyers in California in 2012 and 2013.
Jeff is an Adjunct Professor at University of California College of the Law San Francisco (“UC Law SF,” formerly Hastings College of the Law), where he teaches public sector labor law.
MEMBERSHIPS
Jeff is a member of the labor and employment law sections of the State Bar of California and the San Francisco Bar Association. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for California Public Employment Relations (CPER),
California’s number one resource for public sector employer/employee relations. He is also a sustaining member of the Association of Workplace Investigators.
PUBLICATIONS
Jeff is co-author of the key public sector treatise, California Public Sector Labor Relations (LexisNexis).
Jeff is co-author of the book, Conducting Effective Personnel Investigations: A Manual for California Public Employers (6th Ed., 2022).
Jeff is a regular contributor to the California Employment Law Letter. Select articles appear on the Firm’s web site.
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