July 1, 2025
Human Resources
DATE: July 1, 2025
TO: Mayor Martinez and Members of the City Council
FROM:
Nickie Mastay, Deputy City Manager – Internal Services
Sharrone Taylor, Director of Human Resources
Shannon Moore, Chief Assistant City Attorney
Subject: Legal Services Agreement with Meyers Nave for
Confidential and Personnel Investigative Services
FINANCIAL IMPACT: The fiscal impact is $75,000 for the term of the agreement and is budgeted for in the Human Resources
Department Professional Services (Accounting String:
01181016-400201).
PREVIOUS COUNCIL
ACTION:
None.
STATEMENT OF THE
ISSUE:
The City requires a legal services agreement with Meyers Nave to conduct confidential personnel investigations.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
APPROVE a legal services agreement with Meyer Nave
for an amount not to exceed $75,000 and term of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027, to conduct confidential and impartial personnel investigations – Human Resources
Department/City Attorney’s Office (Nickie
Mastay/Sharrone Taylor 510-620-6602/Shannon Moore
510-620-6509).
DISCUSSION:
The Human Resources Department and City Attorney’s Office requests a legal services agreement (LSA) with Meyers Nave to conduct confidential and impartial personnel investigations. The City has previously entered a contract with Meyers Nave for similar purposes.
AGENDA
REPORT
July 1, 2025
Camille Hamilton Pating is a labor and employment attorney, and the leader of the firm’s Workplace Investigations Practice. Ms. Pating has nearly 40 years of experience in employment law, having conducted nearly 300 workplace investigations, including matters alleging serious misconduct by company executives, elected officials, and leaders of non-profit organizations, and allegations across the employment law spectrum, including hostile work environment, fraud, abusive conduct, whistleblower matters, Title IX, reasonable accommodations, leave-of-absence issues, harassment, anti-discrimination, retaliation, and hiring and separation processes. She is well versed in the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights, and the Weingarten rights, and develops and leads trainings on bias prevention, state and federal anti-discrimination and anti-harassment laws, and investigation best practices.
As Ms. Pating has the experience and expertise necessary to conduct workplace investigations, the City intends to retain Ms. Pating for confidential personnel investigations as an attorney of law for the purpose of facilitating the rendering of legal advice to the City.
Meyers Nave’s rates are as follows:
Attorney 2025 Public
Rates
Senior Principal $595
Principal $515
Senior Of Counsel $500
Of Counsel $475
Senior Associate $435
Mid-level Associate $415
Junior Associate $370
Senior Paralegal $250
Paralegal $240
The Human Resources Department and The City Attorney’s Office request that the City enter into legal services agreement with Meyers Nave for a not to exceed contract amount of $75,000, for a contract term beginning July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027.
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
Attachment 1 – Legal Services Agreement with Meyers Nave