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JOCELYN BURTON
BURTON EMPLOYMENT LAW
1939 Harrison Street
Suite 400
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: 510-761-5196
Fax: 510-473-3672
jburton@burtonemploymentlaw.com
www.burtonemploymentlaw.com
Jocelyn Burton has 25 years of experience and has served
as counsel of record in cases resulting in over 20 published
federal court decisions. From 1994 to 2005, Ms. Burton was
an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the
Northern District of California. Ms. Burton has litigated over
80 civil appeals before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Burton has litigated over 100 cases involving claims of
various types of discrimination, including age, race, religion,
disability, sex, and national origin, and harassment and
retaliation cases. During her tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office,
Ms. Burton served as both deputy chief and chief of the Civil
Division. Ms. Burton received her B. A. degree from Wake Forest
University and her J. D. from the University of Chicago.
EMPLOYMENT & LABOR
MERCEDES COLWIN
GORDON & REES LLP
90 Broad Street
23rd Floor
New York, NY 10004
Tel: 212-269-5500
Fax: 212-269-5505
mcolwin@gordonrees.com
www.gordonrees.com
Mercedes Colwin is the managing partner of Gordon &
Rees’ New York office. She handles a variety of litigation
including employment law, professional liability, commercial
litigation, products liability, civil rights violations, and criminal
law. Ms. Colwin has successfully tried 48 cases to verdict in
various jurisdictions throughout the nation. She earned her
J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and her B.A. in English from
New York University. Ms. Colwin has been recognized by Forbes
Business American Airlines as one of the six most influential
women in America and is a recipient of Notre Dame Law
School’s prestigious Graciela Olivarez Award for outstanding
achievement. Ms. Colwin is a Fox News analyst regularly
appearing on air to discuss critical legal issues.
PROFESSIONAL LIABILI TY
BUSINESS LITIGATION
EMPLOYMEN T & LABOR
RANDALL A.
CONSTANTINE
MAZURSKY CONSTANTINE
LLC
999 Peachtree Street
Suite 1500
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: 404-888-8877
Fax: 404-926-2977
rconstantine@mcbenefitslaw.com
www.mcbenefitslaw.com
Randall is a managing member of Mazursky Constantine
LLC, where he specializes in ERISA litigation and executive
compensation. His experience includes single and
multiemployer plans; non-qualified plans; and myriad fiduciary,
administrative, and benefits issues. He represents clients
in trial and appellate courts throughout the United States.
In his executive compensation practice, Randall represents
companies and senior management, including CEOs at a
number of major league sports franchises. Randall graduated,
summa cum laude, from Presbyterian College and magna cum
laude, from Boston University School of Law (where he was an
editor for the law review) and received his Master’s Degree from
Harvard University.
EMPLOYEE BENEFI TS/ERISA
BRIAN S. COUSIN
DENTONS
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Tel: 212-398-5776
Fax: 212-768-6800
brian.cousin@dentons.com
www.dentons.com
Brian S. Cousin is a partner at Dentons, where he heads the
firm’s 220-lawyer Global Employment and Labor Practice and is
a leader of the firm’s ERISA and benefits litigation practice. Brian
advises companies in all aspects of employment law, including:
compliance with all anti-discrimination laws; employment and
separation agreements; corporate transactions, restructurings
and reductions in force; investigations; handbooks and
policy manuals; training; and global employment solutions.
Brian has successfully litigated just about every type of
employment-related case possible including cases alleging
violations of non-competition and other restrictive covenants,
theft of trade secrets, fraud, breach of contract and fiduciary
duty, defamation, wage/hour, discrimination, and retaliation.
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS/ERISA
EMPLOYMENT & LABOR
BRIAN S. DUFFY
MCCONNAUGHHAY, DUFFY,
COONROD, POPE & WEAVER,
P.A.
1709 Hermitage Boulevard, Suite 200
PO Drawer 229
Tallahassee, FL 32302
Tel: 850-222-8121
Fax: 850-222-4359
bduffy@mcconnaughhay.com
www.mcconnaughhay.com
Brian Duffy, the managing partner of his firm’s civil litigation
group, is a Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer. His
practice emphasis is employment litigation defense including
discrimination, harassment, and FLSA. Brian also maintains
a substantial practice defending businesses in catastrophic
injury cases including dram shop and products liability. He has
written and lectured for the state bar association on experts and
evidence issues. He is a member of the International Association
of Defense Counsel, the Federation of Defense and Corporate
Counsel and Litigation Counsel of America. Brian has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers for his work in both civil
litigation defense and employment litigation defense.
CIVIL LI TIGATION DEFENSE
PERSONAL INJURY DEFENSE: GENERAL
EMPLOYMEN T LI TIGATION: DEFENSE
JEFFREY M. SELCHICK
ATTORNEY – ARBITRATOR
PO Box 11280
Albany, NY 12211
Tel: 518-783-0016
selchick@nycap.rr.com
www.selchick.com
Engaged in the practice of labor arbitration, mediation, and
employment dispute resolution, Arbitrator Selchick serves on
labor arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association
and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He is
available to accept assignments throughout the U.S. A member
of the National Academy of Arbitrators, he is active in both the
public and private sectors and serves as Permanent Contract
Arbitrator for numerous employers and the respective unions.
Arbitrator Selchick has over 30 years of experience as arbitrator
of contract disputes and disciplinary matters for all types
of manufacturing and service industries, with expertise in
government, police and fire, corrections, hospitals, education,
and transportation.
ALTERNATIVE DISPU TE RESOLU TION
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
EMPLOYMEN T & LABOR
PHILIP G. VILLAUME
VILLAUME & SCHIEK, P.A.
BLN Office Park, Suite 611
2051 Killebrew Drive
Bloomington, MN 55425
Tel: 952-851-9500
Fax: 952-851-9510
pgvillaume@att.net
www.defendmn.com
Philip G. Villaume concentrates his practice on the areas of
employment law, school law, and the criminal and civil defense
of professional people facing employment-related misconduct
allegations. Mr. Villaume has extensive expertise in the areas
of employment law, including discrimination claims and
whistleblower claims. Mr. Villaume conducts workshops and
seminars all over the country on the prevention of workplace
and school violence, legal investigations, professional ethics,
and elimination of bias and harassment in the workplace and
schools. Mr. Villaume was repeatedly selected by his peers as a
Leading Attorney in the areas of employment law and criminal
law since 1994. Less than 6 percent of the state’s attorneys are
Leading Minnesota Attorneys.
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITE COLLAR
EMPLOYMENT & LABOR
MARCIA S. WAGNER
THE WAGNER LAW
GROUP, A PROFESSIONAL
CORPORATION
99 Summer Street
13th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
Tel: 617-357-5200
Fax: 617-357-5250
marcia@wagnerlawgroup.com
www.wagnerlawgroup.com
Marcia S. Wagner is the principal of The Wagner Law Group, one
of the nation’s largest boutique law firms, specializing in ERISA,
employee benefits, and executive compensation. A summa cum
laude graduate of Cornell University and a graduate of Harvard
Law School, she has practiced law for over 26 years. Ms. Wagner
was appointed to the IRS Tax Exempt & Government Entities
Advisory Committee. For the past five years, 401k Wire has listed
Ms. Wagner as one of its 100 Most Influential Persons in the
401(k) industry. Ms. Wagner has written hundreds of articles
and 14 books, is widely quoted in business publications, and is a
frequent guest on televised media outlets.
EMPLOYEE BENEFI TS/ERISA
KENDALL B. WILLIAMS
THE WILLIAMS FIRM, P.C.
8263 South Saginaw Street
Suite 6
Grand Blanc, MI 48439
Tel: 810-695-7777
Fax: 810-695-9549
kwilliams@thewilliamsfirm.com
www.thewilliamsfirm.com
Kendall B. Williams, J.D., is President of The Williams Firm,
P.C., a law firm that specializes in labor and employment
law. The firm represents businesses in the private and public
sectors. Attorney Williams advises several corporate boards
regarding governance and policy issues and has served as
a board member of non-profit and for-profit corporations
throughout his legal career. A 1977 graduate of the University
of Michigan Law School, Attorney Williams is a member of
several professional associations including the American Bar
Association, the Michigan Bar Association, and the National Bar
Association. He is a member of the Labor and Employment Law
Section of the State Bar of Michigan and a former member of
the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE
EMPLOYMEN T & LABOR
