Gary Siniscalco

Hearing of March 16, 2016 - Public Input into the Proposed Revisions to the EEO-1 Report

Gary Siniscalco, Senior Counsel and Co-Chair of Orrick's EEO & OFFCP Compliance Group, has significant experience advising clients on complex employment litigation and advisory matters.  He has particular experience in counseling and litigation defense for clients on equal opportunity, affirmative action (OFCCP) compliance, wrongful discharge, wage-and-hour matters and in working with companies on cross-border employment issues. Gary has handled numerous class actions, pattern and practice cases and government audits, in court and before the EEOC and Department of Labor. Gary brings a particularly unique perspective to clients on matters involving the EEOC, having served as regional counsel and senior trial attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in San Francisco prior to joining Orrick.

Gary also has an extensive class actions practice, focusing on litigation, consent decree strategies and preventive advice. He has been designated as an expert or retained as special counsel in several federal court class actions throughout the United States.

Gary also serves regularly on the NYU faculty for training federal judges on employment law, the OFCCP Institute, PLI International Employment Law and ABA Labor and Employment Law Section programs.

Gary is co-author of "The Pay Gap, the Class Ceiling, and Pay Bias: Moving Forward Fifty Years After the Equal Pay Act", ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law, Vol 29, November 3 (Spring 2014), and "The Law of Employment Discrimination from 1985-2010," ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Spring 2010).

Related Practice Areas

• Employment Law & Litigation
• Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation
• Trade Secrets Litigation
• Wage-and-Hour
• Cross-Border Employment Law Issues

Education

• J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1969
• B.A., Le Moyne College, 1965

Honors

• The Recorder California Labor & Employment Department of the Year (2013-2014)
• The Recorder California Litigation Department of the Year (2013-2014)
• The International Who's Who of Management, Labour & Employment Lawyers (2013-14)
• Who's Who of Management Labour & Employment Lawyers Top Ten International (2009-14)
• Chambers USA Band 2, Labor & Employment (2011-14)
• National Law Journal Leading Employment Lawyers
• Chambers USA Leading Employment Lawyer, "noted for ability both to litigate and to provide counsel on a variety of issues." and "wonderful and highly capable."
• College of Labor & Employment Lawyers, Fellow since 1997