Lane Powell

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Lane Powell, a full-service law firm, works with emerging and established businesses and individuals in the areas of business, labor and employment, and litigation. [1]

The Firm, one of Seattle's largest, has played a historic role in the Pacific Northwest legal community. Tracing its history back to 1875, Lane Powell today employs 180 attorneys in Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Anchorage, Alaska; Olympia, Washington; Tacoma, Washington; and London, England[2]. Lane Powell is focused on the industries of the Pacific Northwest, including aviation, software, and biotechnology as well as the legal issues that face its clients on a regional, national and international level.

Prominent clients include Nordstrom, Wells Fargo and Nike. [3]

Lane Powell’s business practice areas include bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, business, corporate finance and securities, environmental, estate planning, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, real estate, regulatory and taxation.[4]

The Firm is especially well recognized for its work in labor and employment, in which it represents management in virtually every industry in both the private and public sectors in the areas of labor relations, employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, civil rights, employee benefits (ERISA, COBRA, etc.), workers’ compensation, OSHA/WISHA matters, immigration in state and federal courts[5], and before the NLRB, OFCCP, EEOC, the Washington State Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals, and all other state and federal agencies involved in employment matters.

Lane Powell litigation experience includes consumer and wage and hour class-actions on the regional to international levels. It represents clients in all aspects of commercial litigation, including trials and appeals in all state and federal courts; federal, state and self-regulatory administrative proceedings; and arbitrations and mediations under alternative dispute resolution procedures. The broad range of litigation matters that Lane Powell handles include complex litigation, securities, commercial cases, creditor-debtor and bankruptcy, employment, antitrust, health care, intellectual property and Internet. [6]

In 2006 and 2007, Lane Powell was named as one of the “Go-To Law Firms of Top U.S. Companies” in a survey of General Counsels of Fortune 500 companies conducted by Corporate Counsel magazine. [7]

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  5. ^ Chambers and Partners. Retrieved on 2007-06-27.
  6. ^ Martindale.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-27.
  7. ^ For the Record (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-06-27.