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DENIS F. GORDON, ESQUIRE Mr. Gordon is a founding partner of Gordon & Barnett. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Gordon was employed for eight years in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. For much of that time, he served as Deputy Section Chief with responsibility for supervising the trial and appellate activities of 35 trial attorneys, principally involved in employment discrimination litigation. While at the Justice Department, he was a principal contributing author of the U.S. Government’s Supreme Court brief Griggs v. Duke Power Company, a landmark 1974 decision in employment discrimination law. He has been engaged in private practice since leaving the Department of Justice in 1975. He has extensive experience in labor, employment discrimination, and pension and employee benefits litigation, at the trial and appellate levels. His labor relations experience has been concentrated in the airline and aircraft industries and the United States Postal Service, and has included representation of employee groups in rights and interest arbitrations, trial and appellate litigation, and regulatory proceedings before the U.S. Department of Transportation. His arbitration practice includes employer representation in employment dispute arbitrations and service as party-designated member of the arbitration panel. He has acted as special litigation counsel to a major nationwide multi-employer pension fund. He has also served as counsel to several other jointly trusteed Taft-Hartley employee benefit trust funds providing pension, health and welfare, and prepaid legal services benefits; and to a multi-county government agency providing community services in the fields of mental health, mental retardation, and alcohol and drug abuse. Areas of Practice: Bar Admissions: Education: Professional Associations and
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