

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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Seattle City Council Votes 8-0 to Let Uber Drivers Unionize [Only a First Step]
As reported in a New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/technology/seattle-clears-the-way-for-uber-drivers-to-form-a-u...
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3 Things You Should Know About Your Employment [Contract]
In times past, employment contracts have been reserved primarily for key executives of an organization, but the workplace has evolved....