Practice Areas

Employee Rights

You have the right to be paid for the work you have performed. Unfortunately, there are many employers who will cheat their employees out of the wages they deserve. This can be done in many ways. Examples include: failure to pay overtime when required; withholding some, or all, of an employee’s final check; not paying sales commissions when they are due; and not paying an employee’s payroll taxes when due; not providing compensation for uniforms or required work-wear.

Also, employees have the right work without being unlawfully discriminated against. Employees have the right to work without being subject to unlawful harassment, or threats.

When you fight for your own employee rights, you are also fighting for the rights of others who may not be as brave. Often, when an employer treats one employee unlawfully, that employer treats many other employees unlawfully as well. By standing up for your rights you are helping to protect the rights of others by exposing the bad employer.

General Litigation

Unfortunately, there are people and businesses that will fearlessly trample on your rights because they think they can get away with it. These are the playground bullies - taking your lunch money because there is nothing you can do about it. They are counting on the fact that you will not be able to find a lawyer because the dollar amount of the case is too small.

If you find yourself in this kind of situation please contact me. There are few things I enjoy more than helping clients knock down their own personal bullies. If anyone is trampling on your rights, or cheating you, please contact me and so we can see what we can do to get your bully off of your back, once and for all.

Criminal Records

My criminal practice includes the sealing and expungement of criminal records. This is a confusing area of law that many lawyers do not care to practice. Under Washington law juveniles can seal, and possibly expunge most convictions. Adults can seal misdemeanors and many felonies. Sealing your criminal record allows you to lawfully swear that you never were charged, or convicted of the crime.