Anastasia Bondarchuk

ABOUT

Anastasia Bondarchuk serves as a strategic partner to her clients, helping them navigate not only legal risk, but the practical, political, and operational realities that often shape employment decisions. Her practice focuses on employment and government advice and counsel, workplace investigations, policy development, and training. Anastasia is certified as a workplace investigator through the Association of Workplace Investigators and regularly conducts investigations into complaints of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, bullying, and other misconduct. She also prepares employment handbooks, delivers harassment prevention and DEI-related training, and advises on compliance and personnel management issues.

Before entering private practice, Anastasia worked for the Berkeley City Attorney’s Office, where she advised city departments on employment, government, and healthcare matters and litigated civil rights and public liability cases. She earned her law degree from UC Law San Francisco, where she served as an editor of the Constitutional Law Quarterly, was a National Semifinalist in the Asylum & Refugee Moot Court Competition, and completed a judicial externship with U.S. District Court Judge Troy L. Nunley.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Provided legal advice and representation to various departments at the City of Berkeley, including Human Resources, Police, Health, Housing and Community Services, Planning and Development and Parks, Recreation and Waterfront.
Handled multi-district federal litigation and California state complex product and commercial litigation matters.
Defended managed health care plans and insurance companies in complex state and federal litigation, including matters related to the evolving area of mental health care.
Litvinova v. City and County of San Francisco and Silloway v. City and County of San Francisco, 615 F.Supp.3d 1061 (2022). Represented the City and County of San Francisco in two Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions consisting of more than 300 highly compensated registered nurses who alleged they were misclassified as exempt employees and unlawfully deprived of overtime. Anastasia managed discovery and assisted with the City’s Summary Judgment Cross-Motion papers, which resulted in a judgment for the City.
Doe v. California State University, Central District of California, Case No. 2:21-cv-06768. Defended state university against state and federal claims brought by a former student.
Clark, et al. v. Alameda Health System, et al. Defended public hospital against claims brought by former employees.
Represented clients in administrative proceedings before the EEOC and Civil Rights Department.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Harassment Prevention Training for Mayors, Board Members and Supervisory Employees” League of California Cities 2023 New Mayors and Council Members Academy in Sacramento, California
“Public Employment Relation Board Update,” Public Employer Labor Relations Association California, Annual Training Conference