July 15, 2010
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Marcia J. Canning, JD

Chief Campus Counsel and Associate General Counsel Office of Legal Affairs

Marcia J. Canning joined the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) in October of 1981. After serving as a trial attorney for the National Labor Relations Board. Ms. Canning's primary areas of practice after joining the OGC included labor relations matters from the commencement of collective bargaining, employment litigation, grievances and administrative hearings involving faculty, residents and staff, advice regarding faculty misconduct cases and Constitutional issues related to privacy rights, drug testing and free speech and advice involving violence in the workplace, disability rights and issues related to the California Information Practices Act and the Public Records Act. She became General Counsel for UC Hastings College of the Law in 1998 and became the Chief Campus Counsel for the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Campus in 2001 providing advice to both the Campus and the Medical Center. She is a graduate of the University of Holy Names (B.A. 1970) where she graduated cum laude, and the UC Hastings College of the Law (J.D. 1976).

Her current practice includes advising both the UCSF Campus and Medical Center on a range of Medical Staff Issues including academic affairs, research misconduct, compliance and regulatory matters, staff employment issues, whistleblower complaints, business transactions, contracts, affiliation agreements, and Medical Staff and Medical Center matters.