Camille Hamilton
Pating

Principal

TEL:

510.808.2176

EMAIL:

cpating@meyersnave.com

OFFICE:

Oakland

LANGUAGES:

English

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Camille is brought in for the most complex, sensitive, and high-profile investigations of elected officials, executives, police and fire chiefs, and board members.

Camille Hamilton Pating chairs Meyers Nave’s Workplace Investigations and Labor Law practices. Over 40 years she has conducted more than 350 investigations for California’s cities, counties, universities, special districts, health plans, nonprofits, and private employers, focused on the people at the top of the organization and often while the story is already in the news.

Her reports are objective and built to be highly usable by employers, with findings mapped to the organization’s own policies and the law behind them. Their defensibility comes from the rest of her career. She is a litigator defending employers in court, arbitration, and disciplinary hearings, and much of her work is with sworn workforces, the most procedurally protected employees in California, where one misstep under the Public Safety Officers or Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights can undo everything. She interviews and writes to withstand scrutiny in any forum and uses plain English to explain how she reached every finding.

Camille’s work often begins before an investigation and continues after it. Clients bring her in to decide whether an investigation is warranted at all, to scope it, to supervise the ones they run themselves, or to resolve a complaint another way. When an investigation ends, she often stays for the discipline that follows, the policy that let the problem happen, and the audits and training that keep it from happening again.

Camille was doing this work long before most law firms had a practice for it. She began as a member of the team that conducted the internal affairs investigation of the BART police shooting of Oscar Grant, when workplace investigations were only starting to organize as a legal field, and she helped make it a discipline employers now seek from outside counsel. That history is why clients of all sizes ask her to conduct investigations at the highest levels of their ranks and help them build stronger workforces to avoid disputes altogether.