Meet The Team
John T. Bennett
John T. Bennett
Experience 2012 – 2017 Laughlin, Falbo, Levy & Moresi LLP San Francisco, California of Counsel.
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Paul Chrisman
Paul Chrisman
Paul Chrisman is Senior Counsel with Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP. Mr. Chrisman advises various public agencies, including transportation planning agencies, joint powers authorities, and special districts, as well as non-profit organizations and businesses.
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Georgia Cochran
Georgia Cochran
Ms. Cochran is a human resources consultant with over 25 years of public sector human resources and labor relations experience.
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Bob Deis
Bob Deis
Mr. Deis, Senior Consultant, has spent 34 years in public service managing the finances of cities and counties in California, Oregon, and Washington. During his career, he managed a city with only 200 employees and a county with 5,000 employees.
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Eric Della Santa
Eric Della Santa
Eric Della Santa joined the firm in 2019 with a background in civil litigation. Before his current practice, Mr. Della Santa was an Associate Attorney at an insurance defense firm where he gained valuable experience handling the defense of lawsuits from start to finish.
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Ivan Delventhal
Ivan Delventhal
Mr. Delventhal advises cities, counties and other public entities on a range of labor, employment and government law matters. He regularly represents public entities in arbitration hearings involving appeals of disciplinary action and alleged contract violations and in proceedings before the Public Employment Relations Board.
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Burke Dunphy
Burke Dunphy
Ms. Dunphy joined the firm in 2013, bringing her experience in labor/management relations, financial restructuring, and bankruptcy to our Labor Relations and Employment law practice.
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DeeAnne Gillick
DeeAnne Gillick
DeeAnne Gillick is Senior Counsel with Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP. Ms. Gillick advises various public agencies, including transportation planning agencies, joint powers authorities, local agency formation commissions, councils of government
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Edison Jensen
Edison Jensen
Edison A. Jensen is an experienced attorney with over 30 years of practical and legal expertise in the formation, operation and governance of Non-Profit Corporations.
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Howard Jordan
Howard Jordan
Mr. Jordan is a licensed private investigator at Jordan Consulting and Investigations, a self-established company that offers an array of services, including law enforcement consultations, legal services, investigations, and background investigations.
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Scott Kenley
Scott Kenley
Mr. Kenley provides expert consulting services in the areas of labor relations and Fire Service Management. His experience includes labor relations, contract negotiations, training, and strategic and organizational planning in the delivery of fire and life safety services. He has testified as a fire management and operations expert in arbitration proceedings.
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Brad Kilger
Brad Kilger
Mr. Kilger has over 40 years of professional municipal government experience, with more than 30 years of executive and senior level management experience, including 18 years as a City Manager.
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Janice Koch
Janice Koch
Ms. Koch has over 24 years of Human Resources related experience both as a public agency employee and as a consultant. Her experience includes classification and compensation studies, recruitment, labor relations support, training, grievance resolution, employee disciplinary procedures, and organizational planning.
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Bonnie Kolesar
Bonnie Kolesar
Bonnie Kolesar passionately approaches the management of risk as opportunity and seeks to help an organization achieve its goals and objectives using realistic approaches. Over an impressive 25-year career in public service, she has held risk manager positions in city, county, state and higher education arenas.
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Christiane E. Layton
Christiane E. Layton
Christiane E. Layton is Of Counsel with Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP. Ms. Layton represents and counsels a variety of public agencies, including transportation agencies, joint powers authorities, councils of government, and special districts, as well as non-profit organizations receiving governmental funding.
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Jim Leal
Jim Leal
Mr. Leal has over 33 years of professional law enforcement experience serving with the Alameda County and San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department, and the Newark Police Department.
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Jim Libien
Jim Libien
Jim Libien has specialized in workers’ compensation throughout his entire career and has represented both public and private employers and insurance carriers before the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board for 38 years.
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Sherry Lin
Sherry Lin
Ms. Lin is a labor and employment law attorney with experience in employment counseling, workplace investigations, labor law, and employment litigation. Ms. Lin counsels employers on state and federal leave laws, disability accommodations, FLSA compliance, employee discipline, and other employment law matters.
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Michael McDougall
Michael McDougall
Mr. McDougall provides consulting services in all areas of human resources, labor relations, public safety communications, and joint powers authority (JPA) operational governance and design. He possesses over 35 years of local government executive experience and has held positions including founding Chief Executive Officer of a JPA, Director of a County operating department and as a County Human Resources Director.
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Nancy Miller
Nancy Miller
Ms. Miller has over 30 years of experience in providing legal services to numerous public agency and private clients, including cities, counties, local agency formation commissions (LAFCo), special districts, joint powers authorities, transportation commissions, and councils of governments.
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Madeline E. Miller
Madeline E. Miller
Madeline E. Miller is Senior Counsel with Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP. Ms. Miller’s practice involves representation of public agencies, primarily in civil litigation.
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Osman Mufti
Osman Mufti
Osman I. Mufti is Senior Counsel with Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP. Mr Mufti represents and advises public agencies, joint powers authorities, special districts and local agency formation commissions.
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Genevieve Ng
Genevieve Ng
A graduate of the University of Santa Clara Law School, Ms. Ng brings to the firm and its clients experience in labor law, labor relations and human resources.
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Judith Propp
Judith Propp
Ms. Propp joined the firm’s legal team after many years working “in-house” for California public agencies. Her practice focuses on representing and advising nonprofits and public agencies on a wide range of governmental law issues including land use, real property, public contracts and bidding, public records requests, and open meeting law matters.
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Geoffrey Rothman
Geoffrey Rothman
Mr. Rothman provides expert consulting services in the areas of human resources and labor relations. His experience includes labor relations and contract negotiations, classification, compensation, personnel assessment, employee benefits, employment discrimination, training, and strategic and organizational planning.
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Wendy Rouder
Wendy Rouder
A seasoned investigator, employment lawyer, mediator, and arbitrator, Wendy Rouder joined the firm in 2012. While her practice focuses on complex workplace investigations, Ms. Rouder brings years of employment and litigation experience to her investigations.
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Stephen Q. Rowell
Stephen Q. Rowell
Steve is a seasoned attorney with significant experience in all aspects of civil litigation including administrative hearings, mediations, arbitrations, trials and appeals with emphasis on employment and public entity matters.
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Charles Sakai
Charles Sakai
Charles Sakai is a founding partner of the firm. He practices in the areas of employment and labor law, focusing on traditional labor relations, including unit determinations and modifications, representation and decertification elections, collective bargaining, interest arbitrations, contract grievances and rights arbitration, and unfair labor practice charges.
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Gayle Satchwell
Gayle Satchwell
Ms. Satchwell is a human resources consultant with over 30 years of public sector human resources and labor relations experience.
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Justin Otto Sceva
Justin Otto Sceva
Mr. Sceva, one of Sloan Sakai’s founding associates, rejoined the firm’s legal team after a number of years working “in house” for California public agencies. His practice focuses on representing and advising public agencies on labor and employment matters.
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Scott Schneider
Scott Schneider
Mr. Schneider provides quality and experienced consulting work in the areas of labor negotiations, human resources, organization development and strategic planning.
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Steve Shaw
Steve Shaw
Mr. Shaw joined the firm 2006 and represents public agencies and nonprofit organizations in a variety of labor and employment matters, with a particular emphasis on litigation and public safety (police and fire) cases.
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Jeff Sloan
Jeff Sloan
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.
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Neil Telford
Neil Telford
Mr. Telford is a licensed private investigator and operates Telford Consulting and Investigations that offers services in management consulting and investigations specializing in law enforcement.
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Kirk Trost
Kirk Trost
Mr. Trost has almost 35 years of experience providing broad representation to local and regional public agencies. He has handled complex transactions and litigation, including the formation of numerous regional and statewide joint powers authorities.
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Don Turko
Don Turko
Mr. Turko is a human resources consultant with over 41 years of combined public sector labor relations and human resources experience.
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Dania Torres Wong
Dania Torres Wong
Ms. Torres Wong practices labor and employment law on behalf of public sector and nonprofit employers. Her practice focuses on traditional labor relations, including collective bargaining, investigations, training and strategic preventative counseling.
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Tim Yeung
Tim Yeung
Mr. Yeung’s practice includes all areas of labor and employment law. He also has extensive experience handling all aspects of litigation, including jury trials and appellate litigation in both the state and federal courts.
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Susan Yoon
Susan Yoon
Susan Yoon joined the firm in 2015 after serving as a Civil Rights fellow at the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, where she focused on discrimination, harassment, and retaliation issues in the employment and housing context.
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Bill Zenoni
Bill Zenoni
Mr. Zenoni has more than 34 years of experience working in the public sector, primarily in the areas of finance, budgeting, fiscal analysis, and organizational management. As a consultant with the firm, Mr. Zenoni works with our public agency clients on budget balancing, financial forecasting, long range financial planning, and developing effective financial policies and procedures.
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