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 (2001).
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 maintains a law office in Silver
Spring, Maryland, 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. | 
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