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Ross is an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department and Employment and Labor Law Practice Group. His practice focuses on employment law, complex administrative litigation, and appeals. His employment law experience includes advising on and litigating issues of discrimination and harassment, wage and hour issues, unemployment appeals and labor negotiations. Ross has successfully defended discrimination charges before the Seattle Office for Civil Rights, the Washington State Human Rights Commission, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and superior court. He advises public employers on workplace benefits under Washington’s recent Domestic Partnership Act and provides workplace anti-discrimination and harassment training. He has also conducted numerous workplace investigations for public entities.
In addition to his employment law practice, Ross represents hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care providers in certificate of need litigation before hearing officers at the Washington State Department of Health and before the superior court, the Court of Appeals, and the state Supreme Court.
Ross is a frequent presenter on legal ethics, and anti-discrimination, and workplace benefits. He has presented at the Annual Judicial Conference on GLBT issues and the courts. Ross received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law in 2001, where he was a note and comment editor for the Seattle University Law Review. After law school, he served as judicial clerk to Judge Elaine Houghton of the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division Two and then to Justice Charles W. Johnson of the Washington State Supreme Court.
Ross was the inaugural chairperson of the Judicial Evaluation Committee for QLAW: The GLBT Bar Association of Washington. He has been a content editor for the Washington Lawyers Practice Manual, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Bar News, and a volunteer at the King County Bar Association’s legal clinics. Ross has been included in Washington Law & Politics Magazine’s list of Rising Stars for several years. He is a member of good standing of the Washington State Bar Association and is admitted to practice in Federal District Court for both the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington. |