Davis Wright Tremaine is a national business and litigation law firm representing companies throughout the US and abroad. We have over 500 attorneys in offices in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington; Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; Portland, Oregon; New York, New York; Anchorage, Alaska; Washington, DC; and Shanghai, China. Davis Wright's employment, labor, and benefits lawyers are skilled at helping ensure that your human resources and employee benefits programs coordinate with your company's goals. With over 70 highly experienced attorneys, we have handled virtually every conceivable workplace issue and can provide wise counsel efficiently. We provide practical answers and actionable advice so you can make sound decisions that are consistent with your business priorities and preferences.

Our counseling services are characterized by efficient, practical advice designed to help you achieve your goals while minimizing risks. We always prefer to resolve issues before they become problems. Our attorneys track evolving national, state, and local laws and regulations and keep clients informed through regular bulletins and seminars. Our litigators have a tremendous record of success in resolving all types of employment and ERISA disputes. We concentrate on achieving the best business result for our clients–as defined in collaboration with our clients. We provide early case analysis, a creative approach to litigation and resolution strategy, and stay in close touch with our clients to ensure that we are pursuing our clients' most important goals. We are effective at minimizing the client's total cost of litigation, including settlements, judgments and legal fees. We are also successful obtaining summary judgments and defense verdicts, and have substantial experience in handling class actions, the nature of which evolve as plaintiffs' lawyers continually search for novel causes of action. For employers that have, or are facing the prospect of, a union, our labor lawyers work on a national basis and provide the full range of labor services, including union avoidance, collective bargaining negotiations, union contract interpretation and administration, grievance and arbitration proceedings, NLRB and state labor board proceedings, corporate campaign responses and strike planning and prevention.