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About Mr. Carron:
Professional Experience:
Advisor to Fortune 500 companies on compliance with all employment and labor laws
Expert in the development and implementation of human resource crisis management strategies and plans
Proficient in designing operations and other aspects of business plans for privatization of government human resource functions
Hearing Officer (Administrative Law Judge) for special education cases for a major urban school system
Commissioner of a Virginia county's Human Rights Commission
Senior Attorney and senior manager of a Fortune 50 company
Director of Workforce Management and member of Strategic Planning Team of a federal agency
Major Accomplishments:
Guided development of staffing, job evaluation, performance appraisal and compensation programs to attract, retain and motivate sales and operations employees and management while minimizing risk of employee claims.
Successfully managed employee issues in mergers, facilitating downsizing and reassignments without legal liability.
Developed and implemented "zero tolerance" harassment policies and counseled senior management and human resources managers on race/sex hostile work environment issues.
Managed alternative dispute program (mediation and conflict resolution) averting hundreds of grievances and discrimination complaints.
Supervised team of senior Equal Employment Opportunity specialists who investigated hundreds of discrimination complaints each year, ensuring prompt identification and correction of civil rights violations at minimal cost to companies while avoiding potential class-based claims.
Supervised team of labor relations specialists who negotiated and administered collective bargaining agreements, responded to grievances, and tried arbitration cases.
Guided Human Resources and Purchasing organizations in developing and improving affirmative action programs and minority subcontracting programs, earning the highest letter grade on the NAACP Reciprocity Initiative.
Advised ERISA fiduciaries on benefit claims and appeals.
Negotiated contracts involving billions of dollars of pension and welfare benefit plan assets and liabilities.
Successfully resolved legal, public relations, employee relations and political challenges of class action discrimination suits in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.
Supervised outside counsel and in-house counsel in defense of approximately 100 employment lawsuits, winning a majority of the cases outright and achieving reasonable settlements in remaining cases.
Developed and implemented litigation management system ensuring efficient and effective defense of employment lawsuits and deriving maximum value from outside counsel resources.
Successfully represented companies in Department of Labor audits of affirmative action compliance.
Audited and revised personnel policies and procedures and employee handbooks ensuring full compliance with employment laws.
Analyzed federal and state legislation on issues ranging from civil rights to electronic monitoring, advised Human Resources clients on compliance with new laws and regulations such as the Family and Medical Leave Act, and conducted live and videotaped training seminars.
As legislative counsel to a trade association, supported efforts to amend the Family and Medical Leave Act and drafted bills introduced in U.S. House and Senate.
Served as chief negotiator in union bargaining and wrote collective bargaining proposals and contracts, preserving management rights.
Wrote employment and consulting contracts and separation agreements.
Education:
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, J.D.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude Phi Beta Kappa
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, Northern Virginia Mediation Service, certificate in mediation and workplace dispute resolution
About The Suing Game:
Order Mr. Carron's book, THE SUING GAME: PREVENTING AND SURVIVING CLASS ACTION DISCRIMINATION SUITS.
THE SUING GAME is a how-to book for preventing and surviving class action discrimination suits.
Class action discrimination suits have brought otherwise successful companies to their knees. Such lawsuits often have their greatest impact outside the courtroom--in the court of public opinion. Brand names that took years and millions of dollars to build have been trashed in days. The companies often seem surprised to be sued, and even more surprised at the public's interest and apparent acceptance of the allegations. Attacked publicly, these companies often respond aggressively and ineffectively, making the situation even worse. Expensive settlements usually ensue, without any actual proof that the company had discriminated. Besides the financial cost, these lawsuits, even after settlement, can severely disrupt employee relations--particularly with those employees who do not benefit from the settlement. Additional lawsuits often follow. Customers and other stakeholders may not forgive the company for the underlying discrimination (however unproven) or for the way the matter was defended. In THE SUING GAME, Mr. Carron gives useful advice on how to prevent discrimination suits, and if sued, how to survive the attack. Mr. Carron explains how companies, just like individuals, can learn and practice respect for differences--and thereby defuse the discrimination bomb, while creating a workplace that is fair to all.
Here's what people are saying about THE SUING GAME:
"When the senior employment attorney for a Fortune 10 company spells out how to avoid discrimination class actions--and how to survive them if you get them--CEOs should listen. This book is full of excellent, practical advice on how to make the modern workplace fair." --Deval L. Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts; former head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Vice President and General Counsel of Texaco and Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Coca-Cola Company.
"The employment law revolution is alive and well in the United States. The question is not whether your organization will be sued but when, by whom, upon what basis and how often it will happen. Mr. Carron's insights into this reality and his suggestions for the adoption of pro-active, preventive employer of choice policies and procedures are practical, useful and essential for any business today." --Michael J. Lotito, 2000 Chair, Society for Human Resource Management and partner, Jackson Lewis, a national labor and employment law firm.
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From the Introduction to THE SUING GAME:
Accusations of discrimination against a business are like a neutron bomb. The assets on the balance sheet may remain intact, but the company's goodwill--and its viability--can be devastated. Sometimes the company's attitudes toward minority customers are challenged as discriminatory. Sometimes the issue is the company's treatment of its employees. Sometimes unions exploit such disputes to help organize employees. Sometimes there really was discrimination; sometimes there was not. Sometimes the alleged discrimination leads to a lawsuit, and sometimes the company wins the court litigation. Usually, there is a pre-trial settlement. Curiously, it rarely matters whether the company was right or wrong. The publicity surrounding the alleged discrimination often seriously and permanently disrupts relationships with customers, investors, and employees. THE SUING GAME offers conversation-style case histories of three fictional companies which have been the victims of allegations of discrimination. The common tragedy in all three cases is that the company's management--especially top management--misunderstood how this bomb works, and grossly underestimated its destructive power. Although some of the companies eventually found the right strategy, they lost more market share and spent much more on public relations and other remedial measures than if they had armed themselves in advance with the arsenal of effective defense weaponry. THE SUING GAME explores the right way to respond to accusations of discrimination, giving specific advice on how to evaluate a situation quickly and accurately; how to defuse media interest; and how to maintain the trust of customers, investors and employees.
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