The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) determined that when a public employer has a legitimate reason to object to an employee representative in disciplinary interviews (in this case, a practice of having Deputy District Attorneys representing Deputy Public Defenders in hearings creating conflicts in attorney obligations), the alternative is not using a different representative.  Rather, the employer’s option is not to conduct the interview.  In this appeal of that determination, CSAC’s amicus brief was drafted by its Associate Counsel Janis Herbstman.