Washington Law Firm

Andrew Moriarty (Full bio) is a partner in the firm's Labor & Employment practice. He focuses on litigation and arbitration involving statutory and common-law labor and employment claims; tort claims, including defamation, tortious interference, misappropriation of trade secrets; and contract claims involving noncompete, nonsolicitation, and other employment and collective bargaining agreements. Andrew also provides advice and counseling regarding employment contracts, personnel policies and employee handbooks, discipline and discharge, statutory and regulatory compliance, and union matters. Email: amoriarty@perkinscoie.com

Chelsea Dwyer Petersen (Full bio) is a partner whose practice encompasses employment counseling and litigation with a focus on complex class action cases. Ms. Petersen's areas of experience include proactive defense of discrimination and wage and hour class action cases for clients such as Les Schwab, The Boeing Company, and OfficeMax. She has substantial experience in all phases of class cases including early strategic assessment, defeat of class certification, supervision of large scale electronic document review, oversight of expert witnesses and taking a case to trial. She also regularly defends employers against individual discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour claims. Representative clients include Microsoft and Starbucks. As a counselor she works closely with clients to minimize the possibility of litigation by providing efficient advice regarding every-day human resources issues and creating employment handbooks and policies to keep business moving smoothly. In particular, she counsels employers on how to comply with federal and state statutes such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Title VII, the Washington Law Against Discrimination, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Email: cdpetersen@perkinscoie.com

Firm Practice Areas: Administrative Law and Legislation, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Arts and Entertainment, Aviation, Banking and Financial Institutions, Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring, Business Transactions and Tax Law, Commercial Law and Finance, Compliance and White-Collar Defense, Construction and Procurement Law, Copyrights and Trademarks, Corporate Finance and Securities, Education Law, Employee Benefits, Energy and Utilities, Environmental Law, Family Businesses, Financial Institutions Insurance Coverage, Government Contracts, Health and Hospital Law, High Technology, Infrastructure Finance, Intellectual Property, International Business and Trade, Internet, Labor and Employment Law, Land Use, Life Sciences, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Municipal Law, Natural Resources, Personal Planning, Political Law, Product Liability, Project Finance, Public Finance, Real Estate, Software, Telecommunications

Number of Attorneys: 850

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