Overview
Dean helps employers through all aspects of employment law issues including day-to-day advice and counsel work, policy review projects, and employment handbooks. Dean also routinely handles discrimination, harassment, and retaliation cases as well as complex employment litigation involving wage and hour issues, leaves and accommodations, and trade secrets.
Dean is experienced as both a litigator and advisor on issues related to federal and state employment claims such as the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Washington Paid Family Leave Act (PFML), the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), the Washington Uniform Trade Secrets Act (WUTSA), Washington’s Non-Compete Statute (RCW 49.62), and more. Dean also regularly advises clients on unique and complex Seattle-specific ordinances such as Seattle’s secure scheduling law, Seattle’s hotel worker protection ordinances, and Seattle’s paid sick and safe time law.
Dean is a former Fisher Phillips summer clerk.