Seattle, WA
Employment and labor Lawyer at Seattle, WA
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Litigation
OUTCOME: 6-3 decision for the employee plaintiffs; decided issues of first impression in Washington.
Karen presented oral argument to the Washington Supreme Court representing the Association of Washington Business as an amicus curiae in this leading case interpreting Washington State’s rest period re ... gulation.
OUTCOME: Through partial summary judgment motions, substantially reduced the scope of this nationwide wage-hour class action. Successfully defended this result on appeal.
Wage-hour class action about unpaid pre-employment time. Nationwide class covered ~70,000 current or former employees, and the case lasted about 10 years. Litigation strategy decisions reduced the cla ... ims from about $12 million allegedly owed to a final judgment of about $250,000. Successfully defended this on appeal to the Washington Supreme Court, which issued a published opinion on the "case conclusion" date above. (The case actually continued for some time after publication of this opinion.)
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