Dulcinea Grantham
Partner | Walnut Creek
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Bio
Overview
Dulcinea Grantham is a Partner in Lozano Smith's Walnut Creek office. She specializes in labor and employment issues for school districts. Ms. Grantham has significant experience handling layoff hearings, arbitrations and classified and certificated employee dismissal matters. She has handled small and large layoffs, including hearings in excess of 300 full-time employees. Ms. Grantham also has extensive experience in employee/employer relations and negotiations for school district clients. Ms. Grantham has negotiated agreements with labor associations throughout the State of California. Ms. Grantham is a certified Trainer of Trainers regarding effective negotiations practices, including Interest Based Bargaining.Experience
Prior to joining Lozano Smith, Ms. Grantham served as Deputy Legislative Counsel for the California Legislative Counsel's office in Sacramento, California. She provided nonpartisan legal services for Members of the Legislature. She drafted bills, constitutional amendments, resolutions, and amendments to those measures, particularly in the areas of elementary and secondary education, elections, legislative procedure, and private employment.Ms. Grantham was an adjunct faculty member with the University of San Francisco School of Law where she provided instruction to law students on the legislative process, legislative drafting, and statutory interpretation. Ms. Grantham also was an extern with the California Supreme Court, Chambers of Justice Kennard; a law clerk with the United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of California; and a project clerk with Lewis and Roca, LLP in Tucson, AZ. She interned in the Office of Senator John McCain in Washington, D.C. and in the Ward III City Council Office in Tucson, Arizona.
Presenter Experience
Ms. Grantham has been a speaker for the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) and the California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO) on a wide range of topics including labor negotiations; employee status, evaluation, investigation, and discipline; and employee leaves of absence. She has made presentations on hiring and supervising athletic employees for the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and presented to the California School Boards Association (CSBA) on handling complaints against high level administrators.Articles
Ms. Grantham has written numerous, significant articles. They include:- "Code of Conduct: Reviewing and Auditing Your Hiring and Supervision Practices for Athletic Coaches" published by American School Board Journal, Volume 198, No. 8, August 2011;
- "Certificated Step and Column Freezes" published by School Services of California, in the Fiscal Report, Volume 30, No. 1, January 2010;
- "The Impact of the European Union Data Privacy Directive Safe Harbor on U.S. Privacy Practices: Is it Time for Congress to Take Action to Strengthen U.S. Privacy Laws?" published in the Fall 2001 issue of the Journal of Internet Law; and
- "Transforming Transplantation: The Effect of the Health and Human Services Final Rule on the Organ Allocation System" published in the University of San Francisco Law Review in 2001.