Garry G Mathiason

Practice Areas

AI and Technology; Arbitration; Class Action; Investigations; Wage and Hour; Whistleblowing, Compliance and Investigations; Workplace Violence Prevention and Crisis Response

Career

Garry is a senior partner with Littler, the largest global law firm exclusively devoted to labor and employment law representing employers. He originated and currently co-chairs the firm’s Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Automation Practice Group, providing thought leadership and legal advice to employers deploying this technology in the workplace, as well as many of the leading AI and Robotics firms in the world.

Mathiason's practice includes workplace law compliance and risk reduction advice for building, implementing, and monitoring AI and robotics systems, especially those supporting recruiting, talent assessment, and the full range of HR services. He routinely advises regarding technology-induced layoffs and transfers, employee skill requirements and retraining programs, robotics safety requirements, privacy regulations including biometrics and cybersecurity, agency enforcement actions, and class action litigation, including most recently, algorithmic bias class actions.

He has litigated or supervised firm attorneys defending over 1,000 workplace lawsuits and has argued cases before the U.S. and California Supreme Courts.

Mathiason is a founder of NAVEX Global, the ethics and compliance authorities, which provides legal compliance solutions through an array of GRC products and services. He currently serves on the Board of Workforce LogIQ, a Carlyle Group portfolio company.

Previously serving as a named partner and Chairman of the Board, Mathiason helped guide the firm’s growth, including originating its public sector, global, and contingent worker practices to building the foundation that even now supports client educational programs and its advanced use of technology in the practice of law.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association - Labor Law Division Forum Committee on the Construction Industry, Former Chair; State Bar of California; American Bar Association - Labor and Employment Law Section; American Bar Association - International Law Committee; American Bar Foundation; Bar Association of San Francisco; Santa Clara County Bar Association; Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit; National Association for Urban Debate Leagues - Board of Directors; WorkforceLogIQ - Board Member

Publications

Five Transformational Impacts of Robotics on Human Resources, the Workplace, and the Law, Recursos Humanos Y Globalizacion: Desafios Para Las Multinacionales En El Proximo Quinquenio, LA Ley Grupo Wolters Kluwer, Chapter co-author Miranda A. Mossavar, 2014

Developing and Implementing Effective Compliance Systems, Corporate Governance and Compliance Client Strategies, Aspatore Books, 2007, 7-26

Violence in the Workplace, Chapter 26, Employment Law Desk Book for Human Resources Professionals, Thomson West, 2004

Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach, The Haworth Press, Foreward, authors: Turner and Gelles, 2003

The National Employer, LexisNexis and Littler Mendelson, 1984-2012

Terror and Violence in the Workplace, 1st - 3rd Eds., 1994-1997

Legal and Liability Issues, Preventing Violence in the Workplace, author: Labig, Amacom, 1995, 61-81

The Public School Employer and Collective Bargaining: A Guide to the California Educational Employment Relations Act, The Labor Relations Press, 1977

Education