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The 1 (and Only) Reason your Company is Offering you Severance

Whether you've been terminated, laid off, or even resigned, it's fairly normal for your company to offer you a severance package. If...

(Before and After) The 2 Most Important Times to Contact an Employment Lawyer

It's not surprising that I deal with people every day that are leaving their employment. Sometimes, they're being illegally terminated...

3 (Common) Types of Attorneys' Fee Agreements

When I'm on-boarding clients during consultation or follow-up calls, I spend a lot of time talking about the strengths and weaknesses of...

(Wrongful) Termination 1, 2, 3!

People call me all the time and tell me that they've been wrongfully terminated. As with most things, the colloquial use of a word or...

The #1 Best Professional Camouflage for Discriminatory [Wrongful] Terminations

Despite record low unemployment numbers in the United States, one sector, tech, appears to be in the midst of a herd culling. Since going...

Stockwell Law Firm 2.0 [Now with More Terrifying Practice Skills]

SLF is up and running again. After two years as a prosecutor at the city attorney's office here in Seattle, I'm salty and ready to tear...

3 Mechanisms to Combat Wage Theft and [Enforce Civil Consequences]

I recently presented oral argument at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Veronica Danielson v. Megan Brennan, et al, No. 17-35928....

3 Arguments for A [Professional] Jury System

As a civil trial attorney, I understand better than most, the dog and pony show that a trial by jury actually is. Lawyers understand that...

3 Workplace Torts [Legal Claims] and Statutory Tunnel Vision

A fact that every attorney working in employment law knows, or should know, is that by and large most employment in the United States is...

50/50 [Joint] Employers in Washington State

The proliferation of large entities contracting and subcontracting their hiring to staffing agencies has surely streamlined, and made...