Updated
Updated · Bloomberg Law · May 26
Seyfarth Shaw Adds 2 Seattle Partners to Bolster Labor and Employment Practice
Updated
Updated · Bloomberg Law · May 26

Seyfarth Shaw Adds 2 Seattle Partners to Bolster Labor and Employment Practice

2 articles · Updated · Bloomberg Law · May 26

Summary

  • Kathryn Rosen and Devin Smith have joined Seyfarth Shaw as partners in Seattle, expanding the firm's labor and employment bench.
  • Rosen brings deep employer-side class action experience, having handled more than 150 class action matters and advised companies as de facto in-house employment counsel.
  • Her track record includes defending a national retail chain in what the firm called Washington state's largest wage-and-hour class action.
  • Smith also arrives with experience defending wage-and-hour class actions, reinforcing Seyfarth's focus on high-stakes employment litigation in Seattle.

Insights

How will Seyfarth's new legal team counter Washington's proactive Worker's Rights Unit and its novel enforcement strategies?
With new Washington labor laws imminent, are even compliant employers now at risk from aggressive litigation tactics?
As Seattle's enforcement outpaces the state's, is a two-tiered system of worker protection emerging in Washington?