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Gary M. Gilbert

2319 Deckman Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20906

 (410) 962-7711  u   garygilb@msn.com

 Gary M. Gilbert is an attorney, consultant and mediator specializing in the area of employment discrimination law. He has lectured and written extensively on various aspects of employment law.   He is a former Chief Administrative Judge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the author of the recent text book “Compensatory Damages and Other Remedies in Federal Sector Employment Discrimination Cases.”   

In his sixteen years as an administrative judge with the EEOC, he presided over hundreds of employment discrimination complaints and supervised the case management of literally thousands of others.   He served on numerous workgroups and committees while with the EEOC, and had substantial input into the Commission’s regulatory reforms enacted in 1989, 1992 and 1999 and the accompanying changes to the Commission’s Management Directives to federal agencies. 

 While with the EEOC, he also provided substantial input into the Commission’s guidance and regulations on the American with Disabilities Act and he was one of three individuals responsible for developing materials and training all Commission lawyers on disability law after passage of the ADA.  

Prior to his appointment at the EEOC, he worked for Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc. a 42 attorney, seven office legal services organization, where he litigated a variety of cases including employment matters, directed one of the largest pro bono legal programs in the country and acted for a period of time as the Executive Director.  He also served for
four years as the legal assistant to the Secretary of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

 He is a frequent speaker on employment matters, appearing at conferences such as the annual Federal Dispute Resolution Conference and the annual EEOC sponsored EXCEL conference.  He has been called upon to provide training for lawyers, non-attorney representatives and other employees at many federal agencies and he was invited as a guest speaker on the subject of compensatory damages at the MSPB judges’ annual conference.  

The many seminars he has presented to federal agency personnel include “How to Avoid Being Named in a Title VII Charge of Discrimination … and What to Do If You Are” and “Effective Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA … Making it Work For Employees and Employers”  He has also lectured extensively on litigation matters, including such seminars as “How to Prove and Defend a Claim for Compensatory Damages”, “Filing Effectives Motion for Summary Judgment before the EEOC” and “Winning Cases with Discovery.”

Mr. Gilbert is a member of the Labor and Employment Section of the Maryland Bar Association and sits on the Section Council.  He has written several articles for the Maryland Bar Journal, the Maryland Bar Labor and Employment Section Newsletter and the Florida Bar Journal.  

Mr. Gilbert is Of Counsel with the employment law firm of Passman & Kaplan, P.C. and is a partner in the management consulting firm of Vitaro, Goodfriend & Gilbert. 

He is a graduate of the University Of Maryland School Of Law and is admitted to the Bar in the States of Maryland and Florida.