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Why This Firm? Accelerate Your Excellence

Excellence

Become excellent at what you do and reach higher. Our best-in-class training is supported by feedback and coaching unlike other law firms. We reject the industry standard of training people with sink or swim indifference and invest in our people, which is why our legal assistants become paralegals or law students, our paralegals climb corporate ladders or go to law school, and our former lawyers are now at larger firms or have started their own businesses. We have former staff who have gone on to law schools at the University of Washington, Seattle University, American University, and Fordham University, and staff who went on to clerk for appellate judges, became a prosecutor or public defender, got an M.B.A., or worked in corporate offices. We have former lawyers who went to the Attorney General’s Office or big private law firms, transitioned to director or vice president of human resources, or started their own practices. If you had autonomy supported by structure and coaching, where would your career take you or could you grow with one firm your entire career?

Culture

Surround yourself with high performers who support your success in clearly defined roles doing the important work of fostering dignity at work through sound advice and litigation. We represent the management of small businesses and nonprofit organizations and employees of big businesses. When representing management, we encourage humanitarian employment policies and contracts to bring out the best in workers, and we defend litigation knowing meritless claims set back real progress. When representing employees, we often advise on whether a noncompete agreement is valid or whether to accept a severance agreement, and we litigate the select claims of unlawful employment decisions. We are for the client and the community.

Support

Our training is best-in-class. Our onboarding training includes online text and video demonstrations. Our job resources include handbooks, forms, checklists, and processes. We invest in your success. We also have a culture of striving and learning. You will have one-on-one coaching to customize your professional development. We show you a progression from novice to mastery and autonomy with concreteness and clarity that you will not see at any other firm. When you are ready and if you want to learn, we will show you how to make it rain (i.e., teach and support you to get your own cases). The only things missing are drama and office politics.

We are a growing firm, so there is an opportunity to grow with us.

Compensation is competitive and depends on experience. Benefits include health insurance, 401(k) matching, ORCA (mass transit) pass, paid leave, hybrid work policies, and a profit-sharing program.

After working with us, some staff go on to law school or other great companies. Lawyers who have practiced with us for a time have moved to other great firms or the public sector, and some have moved into business roles. We hope to work with you for a long time yet celebrate your move if that is right for you.

Open positions

We are looking for a legal assistant, a paralegal, and a lateral associate attorney with experience in civil litigation who wants to retrain as an employment lawyer.

Apply directly; principals only, please.

What’s next

We have an unusual process. We look to identify the strengths of the candidate and whether we can match them with an open role. We spend a lot of time and resources getting the match as clear as possible. You may also be asked to take an online assessment that helps us with this. Candidates tell us that our process is more intense than any other they’ve experienced.

If you have a resume and writing sample prepared, please share it. For all staff positions and attorneys with fewer than four years in practice, we are interested in your transcripts (unofficial copies are acceptable) from your most recent university (or law school). We also look for other indications of academic excellence and achievement in your materials. For legal intern and lawyer positions, make your materials stand out by including a link (the original won’t attach to this submission) to a video, which could be shot on your phone, shorter than two minutes of you recommending your favorite book, movie, or restaurant.

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