Our People

Megan Lewis represents public employers, including cities, counties, special districts, and private school clients on employment law issues.  Megan is an accomplished litigator with over a decade of litigation experience before state and federal courts, administrative bodies, and in private arbitrations.  She is experienced in all aspects of the litigation process, including pleadings, written discovery and depositions, dispositive motion practice, alternative dispute resolution and trial.  Megan defends employers on the full array of employment law matters, including cases involving alleged violations of Title VII, the Fair Employment and Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the California and United States Constitutions, and tort claims.  She also provides advice and counsel to the firm’s clients on diverse employment and labor law matters such as employee leave issues, discipline, and anti-discrimination, harassment, and retaliation laws.

Drew Liebert has passionately focused his legal career in legislative law-making and advocacy.  Prior to his 2015 retirement from the California Legislature, Drew was one of the Legislature's most senior attorneys, having worked over 25 years in both the State Assembly and the State Senate. For almost two decades, he was the Chief Counsel to the Assembly Judiciary Committee where he and his staff counsel reviewed and advised state legislators, as well as the executive and judicial branches about virtually all areas of the state's civil justice system, including employment and constitutional law.  This work put Drew in the front row seat of developing some of California’s most important civil law reforms, such as sexual harassment prevention and diversity enhancement, child support improvement and marriage equality, and anti-discrimination reforms.

Carla represents management on a full range of employment law issues, with particular expertise in preventive counseling, disciplinary and harassment investigations, disability accommodations/interactive process, and progressive discipline.

Matthew advises and represents clients in all aspects of labor, employment and education law.

Dalisai Nisperos is an Associate in the San Francisco Office of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore.  She represents and advises public sector agencies in all aspects of labor, employment, and education law. This includes: state and federal court litigation, labor relations, responding to EEOC/DFEH charges, wage and hour, and advice and counsel on an array of personnel issues. She has first-chaired administrative hearings and arbitrations, and continues to represent clients in state and federal court matters.

For more than 25 years, Cynthia has provided practical legal advice to public sector employers on such topics as: the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Public Safety Officers' and Firefighters' Procedural Bill of Rights Acts, municipal personnel practices and employee discipline, accommodation of employees with disabilities, and the prevention of sexual harassment.

Partner Laura Schulkind leads the firm’s Public Education Practice Group. With over 30 years of experience, Laura is a sought-after education-law expert in a wide range of areas that confront California’s public school and community college districts. Her areas of expertise include district governance and board efficacy; ethics and conflicts of interest; government transparency under the Brown Act and Public Records Act; student rights and discipline, including FERPA, Title IX,  DACA, and serving students with disabilities under Section 504 and the IDEA; academic, certificated and classified evaluation and discipline; administrator contracts and evaluation; employee leave rights and the interactive process; contract grievance arbitration; unfair labor practices charges before PERB; labor negotiations with academic employees; harassment; employee misconduct investigations; and discrimination complaints made to outside bodies including OCR, EEOC and DFEH. Laura also taught education law in UC Berkeley’s Principal Leadership Institute for ten years.

Suzanne Solomon is an experienced trial lawyer who has represented public entities, private companies and individuals in a wide range of employment disputes for over 20 years. At Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Suzanne's litigation practice focuses on defense of single- and multi-plaintiff employment claims for discrimination, retaliation, harassment, violation of wage and hour laws, due process, First Amendment retaliation, and numerous other tort and statutory employment law claims.

Kelly Tuffo advises cities, counties and other public sector employers on all aspects of employment relations, conducts workplace investigations, and represents clients in disciplinary proceedings and mediation and arbitration of grievances.

Stacy L. Velloff has been at LCW since 2009, and has worked in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. Her experience centers on representing employers in the areas of labor, employment, and education law. Her experience working with public agencies involves conducting investigations and trainings, handling grievances, disciplinary hearings, and litigation.