Ms. Dickson graduated from Stanford University in 1972, and from Hastings College of the Law (University of California, San Francisco) in 1976. She has over twenty years experience specializing in all phases of employment cases, and has achieved a number of highly-publicized settlements and verdicts.
Ms. Dickson has frequently lectured on employment issues, including presentations at conferences of the American Bar Association, the California State Bar Labor and Employment Section, the National Employment Lawyers Association; the California Employment Lawyers Association; the Bay Area Employment Lawyers Association; the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, and many others.
She is currently the plaintiffs' co-chair of the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Section EEO Committee. Ms. Dickson is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell. (The Martindale-Hubbell AV rating indicates very high to preeminent legal ability and very high ethical standards as established by confidential opinions from members of the Bar. For further information on Martindale-Hubbell's ratings, visit www.martindale.com.)
Mr. Ross received his J.D. from the University of California, Boalt Hall, in 1984, graduating Order of the Coif (top 10%). Following law school, Mr. Ross served for one year as law clerk to the Honorable Joseph R. Grodin, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, and for one year as law clerk to the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He joined Ms. Dickson in private practice in 1986. For the past 21 years, he has specialized in representing employees in individual and class action employment cases. Mr. Ross was recognized as a Northern California “Super Lawyer” in 2006 and 2007.
Mr. Ross now serves almost full-time as a private mediator in employment, disability access and other civil rights cases. He mediates both individual and class action cases. Mr. Ross has mediated cases involving virtually every type of employment claim including: discrimination and/or harassment based on gender, age, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, and pregnancy; wage and hour violations; whistleblower/ retaliation; wrongful termination; invasion of privacy; violations of the California Family Rights Act, the Family Medical Leave Act and the Equal Pay Act; and employment-related defamation.
Mr. Ross also serves on mediation panels for the federal District Court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program and the San Francisco Superior Court's Early Settlement Program.
Mr. Ross is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences on the topics of employment law, the mediation and settlement of employment cases, and legal ethics. He has spoken at conferences and seminars of the American Bar Association, the National Employment Lawyers Association, the California Employment Lawyers Association; the Law Education Institute, the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Contra Costa Bar Association, and the Plaintiffs Employment Lawyers Association. He has served as a Chapter Co-Editor of the Second and Third Supplements to Employment Discrimination Law (BNA 3d Ed.), and authored Commentaries for a chapter of California Torts (Matthew Bender & Co.) on employment discrimination and harassment.
Kathryn Burkett Dickson