Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1993, George Howard practices labor and employment law on behalf of management. In 2007 and 2008 he was recognized by Super Lawyers as one of the top 10 attorneys in San Diego in any area of practice. In 2007, he was selected by the San Diego Daily Transcript as one of the city's leading labor lawyers. Since 2005 he has been listed in Chambers USA as one of the premier labor and employment lawyers in California.

George has tried major employment cases, including multiweek bench and jury cases, as well as many shorter matters to judges, administrative law judges, and arbitrators. He has handled through pretrial proceedings a large number of lawsuits involving employment discrimination, wage/hour issues, harassment, trade secrets, and employment contract disputes and wrongful termination. He has extensive experience in union/management relations and collective bargaining, along with trial experience in contract, warranty, and real estate cases.

George is a past chair of the Employers Group Legal Committee, a group of 17 California employment lawyers who represent the interests of employers, as amicus curiae, in appeals of important employment cases in state and federal courts.

George is a Fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is a founding editor of The Rutter Group's California Practice Guide — Employment Litigation and continues to serve as a contributing editor of that widely used treatise. In 1999 and 2000, he was instrumental in negotiating the first collective bargaining agreement in California between a labor organization and a federally recognized Indian tribe. In 1995 he conducted sexual harassment training for the California Supreme Court and the state courts of appeal. A past president of the San Diego chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association, he is a frequent speaker on employment law topics for such groups as The Rutter Group, the Association of Corporate Counsel, and the University of Southern California Institute for Corporate Counsel.

From 1999 to April 2007, George was a partner in the San Diego office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and was the firm's senior labor/employment lawyer in California. Between 1986 and 1999, he was chair of the labor and employment practice at the San Diego law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP.

Areas of Practice

• Labor & Employment
• NLRB Proceedings & Appeals
• Collective Bargaining, Contract Enforcement & Union Organizing
• Construction

West Practice Categories

Collective Bargaining, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Unfair Labor Practices, Unions, Wage & Hour Laws, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• U of Virginia- C'ville (Main)

Published Works

• The Megan's Law Web Site: California Employers Beware, 2009
• Brinker, Brinkley, and Beyond: Surveying California's Wage-Hour Field of Battle, 2009
• Creating Workable Arbitration Agreements in the Post - Gentry Era, coauthor, Employee Relations Law Journal, 2008
• The Same-Sex Marriage Debate: What Are Employers' Responsibilities? The California Employer, 2008
• The Employee Free Choice Act; Why We Don’t Need It, California Labor and Employment Law Review, Vol.22, No. 6, 2008
• Union Access to Private Property: California Supreme Court Rules Shopping Malls Cannot Prohibit Union Protesters from Urging Boycott of Stores, 2008
• ALERT: California Supreme Court Rejects the Narrow-Restraint Exception and Invalidates Noncompete Agreement, 2008
• ALERT: California Appellate Court Holds that Meal Periods Must be Made Available to Employees; California Labor Commissioner Follows Suit, 2008

Address

12265 El Camino Real Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92130-4096

Phones

1.858.314.1166 (Business Phone)

Faxes

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Websites

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