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dmelton@longlevit.com
Employment Litigation & Counseling
Professional Liability Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Overtime In The New Millennium: How
The “8-Hour Day Restoration & Workplace Flexibility Act”
May Impact Your Firm...
Litigating Employment Claims In California...
Getting the Talent You Need and Keeping the
Talent You Have: Managing the Legal Risks of the Use of Internet
Social Networking in the Hiring Process. October 29, 2009
Family and Medical Leave Act in California,
by Lorman Education Services, January 14, 2009 (Oakland, CA)
Overtime Requirements And
Exemptions In California.
Exempt Or Non Exempt: Overtime
Pitfalls For Architecture Firms And Other Design Professionals.
Risk Management Strategies For
Design Firms: How Not To Get Sued By Your Employees.
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DOUGLAS J. MELTON
Douglas Melton is a partner representing a
broad range of California employers with an emphasis on
architecture and other design firms, law firms, health care
professionals and other professional service providers, and
places of entertainment. Mr. Melton counsels employers on
avoidance of harassment and discrimination claims, wage and hour
issues, employment policies and procedures, employee handbooks,
and other day-to-day legal issues. He also defends employers in
all types of litigation and administrative proceedings in state
and federal courts and before the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, the California Department of Fair
Employment and Housing, and the California Department of Labor,
among others. Finally, Mr. Melton regularly writes and speaks on
current legal issues of interest to employers.
In addition, Mr. Melton has substantial
experience in general commercial litigation, the defense of
lawyers in professional liability matters (with an emphasis on
legal malpractice claims arising from underlying employment
cases) and insurance coverage/bad faith counseling and
litigation.
Mr. Melton has jury trial experience as well
as experience in binding arbitration and administrative
hearings.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, HASTINGS COLLEGE OF
THE LAW
San Francisco, California
J.D., 1992
ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
Canton, New York
B.A., Multifield Studies, 1986
SIGNIFICANT LITIGATION EXPERIENCE
Mr. Melton has substantial litigation and
trial experience representing employers, lawyers and insurers in
state and federal courts throughout California. He also has
significant experience representing clients in numerous
alternative dispute resolution settings including private and
court-supervised arbitrations, mediations and early neutral
evaluation conferences. Finally, Mr. Melton has represented
employers in various administrative proceedings before the
California Department of Labor, the California Department of
Fair Employment and Housing and the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND
ACTIVITIES
Mr. Melton is an active member of the Edward
J. McFetridge American Inn of Court and of the Bay Area Lawyers
for Individual Freedom. He is also a member of the San Francisco
Bar Association Labor and Employment Section. Mr. Melton is on
the Advisory Committee of the San Francisco LGBT Community
Center and provides the Center with pro bono employment
counseling services. He has also provided pro bono legal
services to indigent clients through the San Francisco AIDS
Legal Referral Panel.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Hiring 2.0 - Getting the Talent You Need and
Keeping the Talent You Have: Managing the Legal Risks of the
Use of Internet Social Networking in the Hiring Process.
Municipal Management Association of Northern California, Annual
Conference at Squaw Creek Resort, Lake Tahoe, October 29, 2009
Presenter: Family and Medical Leave Act in
California, by Lorman Education Services, Oakland,
California, January 14, 2009
Presenter: Overtime Requirements And
Exemptions In California, a one-day seminar for payroll
professionals, accountants, business owners and managers and
human resource professionals sponsored by Lorman Education
Services, San Francisco, California, February 5, 2002
Presenter: Exempt Or Non Exempt: Overtime
Pitfalls For Architecture Firms And Other Design Professionals,
Advanced Management Institute for Architecture and Engineering,
Bay Area Human Resources Group Luncheon, San Francisco,
California, November 11, 1999
Presenter: Risk Management Strategies For
Design Firms: How Not To Get Sued By Your Employees, MBH
Architects, Alameda, California, May 22, 2000
Presenter: The Employer’s Duty To Prevent,
Investigate And Respond To Sexual Harassment, Bay Area Large
Firm H.R. Roundtable, San Francisco, CA, March 15, 2000
Author: Overtime In The New Millennium: How
The “8-Hour Day Restoration & Workplace Flexibility Act”
May Impact Your Firm, California AIA Journal, December, 1999
Issue; Summary of Key Provisions Of New Overtime Laws Of
Interest To Design Professionals, California AIA Website
Regular Contributor: Long & Levit
Employment Law Case Updates, an occasional publication to
clients and interested parties highlighting significant
developments in California and federal employment law
Presenter: Litigating Employment Claims In
California: An Overview, Executive Risk Management
Associates, Simsbury, Connecticut, September 14, 1998
Co-Author: Risk Management: Strategies For
Avoiding Malpractice Liability, The Verdict: a publication
of the Alameda-Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers' Association,
Winter 1998-99
Presenter: Complying With The New
California Claims Handling Regulations, Penn-America
Insurance Company, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1998
PERSONAL
Born: Rochester, New York
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