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Administration from the University of Southern California; BS in education from
the Pennsylvania State University; certified executive coach through the
International Coaching Federation, trained at the Hudson Institute for Coaching;
and holds Harvard University’s Mediating Disputes certification.

He and his wife are raising two sons. Paul enjoys landscaping, creating sculptures,
painting, and bee keeping. He can be reached at danczyk@usc.edu .

Gage C. Dungy

Gage provides management-side representation and legal counsel to clients in all
matters pertaining to labor and employment law throughout the State of
California. This includes both private sector and public sector employers,
including cities, counties, special districts, hospitals, businesses, and packing
houses, among others.

Gage is experienced in representing and advising employers on various labor and
employment law issues, including matters pertaining to employment
discrimination/harassment/retaliation, disability accommodation and
family/medical leaves of absence, wage and hour law, employee discipline and
due process, the meet and confer process, labor relations and negotiations, and
the preparation of employment guidelines and policies. Gage represents a range
of employers not only in court, but before the Department of Fair Employment
and Housing, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Public
Employment Relations Board, the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals
Board, the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, the Department of Labor and
the California Labor Commissioner.

Gage has served as chief negotiator for public sector agencies in labor
negotiations with their employee organizations, including both miscellaneous
and safety employee units covered under the Meyers-Millias-Brown Act (MMBA).
Based on this experience, he is very familiar with the relevant laws and strategic
considerations related to the representation of public sector clients at the
bargaining table, including the impact of the MMBA's recent impasse fact-finding
obligations.

Working in Sacramento, Gage also leads LCW's legislative tracking efforts on
labor and employment law legislation and works closely with the League of
California Cities, California State Association of Counties, and California Special
Districts Association to advise on the impacts of such legislation.

Gage has been recognized as a Northern California Rising Star in the field of
employment and labor law in 2009-2016. He has also published articles on
current labor and employment law cases and trends in the?caily Journal and the
California Public Employee Relations Journal.

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