Richard C. Rybicki

Richard C. Rybicki advises clients on all aspects of labor and employment law such as leaves of absence, unlawful harassment and discrimination, wage and hour law, unfair competition, OSHA/Cal OSHA, WARN, and ERISA compliance. He has represented employers, employer associations and employee benefit plans in state and federal courts throughout the United States and in administrative proceedings before agencies such as the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), the California Labor Commissioner, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the U.S. Department of Labor.

Mr. Rybicki also specializes in traditional labor law under the National Labor Relations Act, the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, the California Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, and the federal Railway Labor Act. He has represented health care, hospitality, winery, agricultural, manufacturing, transportation and other industry employers in collective bargaining, arbitration and proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) and the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).

Mr. Rybicki is a contributing editor for The Developing Labor Law (ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law), a widely recognized national labor-law publication.   He speaks regularly on wrongful discharge, employment discrimination, union/management relations and other labor law issues. He is a past chair of the Sonoma County Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section, a member of the Napa Chamber of Commerce Business Builders Committee, and an advisor on the Napa Valley College Hospitality Programs Advisory Board.  Mr. Rybicki also completed mediator training through the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Services and trial training through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Mr. Rybicki received his J.D. (concentration in Advocacy) from Cornell University and his undergraduate degree from the University of Califonria, Los Angeles.  He is admitted to practice in California and before various federal District Courts, Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court.

PRACTICE AREAS

Labor and Employment 
Intellectual Property (Trade Secret and Unfair Competition)
Litigation

EDUCATION

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
J.D., Cornell University Law School, 1992

rrybicki@dpf-law.com