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clients in labor and employment matters, and an Alameda County
Deputy County Counsel for another seven.

Kathy received her BA from the University of California, Davis and
her J.D. from the University of San Francisco.

Steve Ponder

As Manager of Classification and Compensation at the City and
County of San Francisoc, Steve assists with city-wide labor
negotiations, maintains the City’s classification plan, and manages
compensation programs for the City’s 30,000 employees. He
received his Juris Doctor degree from UC Hastings College of Law,
and his undergraduate degree from the University of California,
Davis. Steve has been with San Francisco’s Department of Human
Resources for the past 15 years, since he began his career there as
a Research Assistant on the labor negotiations team.

Charles Sakai, Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP

Charles Sakai is a founding partner of the Firm. He practices in the
areas of employment and labor law, focusing on traditional labor
relations, including unit determinations and modifications,
representation and decertification elections, collective bargaining,
interest arbitrations, contract grievances and rights arbitration, and
unfair labor practice charges.

Charles began his career at the California Department of Personnel
Administration, where he represented the State before the State
Personnel Board (disciplinary hearings), Public Employment Relations
Board (“PERB”) (unfair practice charges), and grievance arbitrators.
He also advised various state departments on labor relations and
personnel matters and handled litigation in State and Federal
Courts, including civil writs, and Fair Labor Standards Act litigation.

In 1996, he accepted a Governor’s appointment as a Legal Advisor
to a member of the PERB, where he drafted legal memoranda and
decisions and worked with other Board members and legal advisors
to interpret and develop California’s public sector labor relations
laws. He also assisted the General Counsel’s office in investigating
unfair practice charges, assisted the Board in deciding requests for
Injunctive Relief, and represented the agency in appellate litigation.

During his tenure with PERB, Charles taught “Labor and Employment
Law and Legislation” for the University Extension program at the
University of California at Davis.

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