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Erich Shiners

Associate

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Experience

Erich W. Shiners practices in the areas of labor and employment law, with an emphasis on traditional labor law. His practice includes representing public and non-profit employers in litigation, arbitration, unfair labor practice proceedings, and representation elections.
From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Shiners served as a Legal Adviser to a member of the Public Employment Relations Board, where he drafted Board decisions and represented the agency in appellate litigation. Prior to his State service, Mr. Shiners was an associate with the firm from 2006 to 2008.

Mr. Shiners is currently a member of the executive committee of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Section’s Labor & Employment Law Review. He has authored or co-authored articles in that publication, as well as in Bender’s California Labor & Employment Bulletin, the California Public Employment Relations Journal, and the McGeorge Law Review. In 2011, he completed a three-year term on the executive committee of the Sacramento County Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section, where he edited the section’s monthly newsletter for two years. Mr. Shiners is also an adjunct professor of Global Lawyering Skills at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and an assistant coach of the school’s moot court competition teams.

Related Experience

During law school, Mr. Shiners clerked at the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., the Agricultural Labor Relations Board in Sacramento, and the Sacramento office of Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld. He also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable M. Kathleen Butz at the Third District Court of Appeal.