Bio

Stephen Lanctot specializes in general business law with an emphasis on labor and employment issues. He represents a number of closely-held corporations in a variety of industries in corporate transactions and strategic issues, including matters related to executive compensation, personnel policies, and privacy issues, providing proactive counseling and compliance as well as litigation avoidance. He also represents executives in negotiating compensation agreements and counsels them on creating exit strategies with optimal outcomes. As part of his employment counseling practice, Steve advises with respect to sexual harassment and other training issues, disciplinary, disability and family leave, severance issues, and compliance with FLSA and other regulatory schemes. Steve’s industrial relations practice includes the representation of management in collective bargaining negotiations, arbitrations, and NLRB administrative hearings. He drafts personnel manuals and other human resources materials for clients of all sizes in various industries, tailoring policies and procedures to each client’s unique human resource and operational requirements. Steve also counsels clients on the risks and rewards of business formation, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions and reorganizations. His wide-ranging expertise includes advising clients in matters of incentive-based compensation, salaries, commission schedules, deferred compensation agreements, severance benefits, stock option and other equity participation plans, and shareholder issues. He has experience in maritime and transportation law and served for two years as associate division counsel for Sea-Land Service, Inc. Steve has lectured on labor and employment law before numerous private and public organizations. He served on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit National Brain Tumor Society for 17 years (1994-2011) and is chair of the Board of Directors of Immaculate Conception Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in San Francisco. Steve also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the University of San Francisco School of Law (1979-1985). Steve earned his undergraduate degree in History from Santa Clara University in 1973 and his law degree from the University of San Francisco in 1978.