Trial attorney James Sanders focuses on employment law. James's practice covers all types of legal disputes that arise between employees and employers, including employment discrimination, whistleblower, trade secret, non-competition, employee raiding, wage-and-hour and employment class action disputes. Throughout his career, James has obtained dozens of defense verdicts, judgments and arbitration awards on behalf of the firm’s clients. An experienced first-chair trial attorney, he is frequently engaged to take over as a matter approaches trial.
James also has an active counseling practice, especially in the high-tech sector, having assisted clients, such as Amazon, Microsoft, Avanade, T-Mobile and Boeing with executive negotiations, employee IP disputes and other complex employment issues.
Ranked by Chambers USA Two Years in a Row
Labor & Employment
Professional Recognition
- Recommended in Intellectual Asset Management Patent 1000, 2023; Trade Secrets, 2023
- Ranked by Chambers USA as "America's Leading Lawyer" for Labor & Employment, 2022 – 2023
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Employment Law - Management; Labor Law - Management; Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2015 – 2024
- Listed in Super Lawyers Magazine, "Washington's Super Lawyers" 2007, 2011 – 2021
- Recognized by King County Bar Association for pro bono work with the Lutheran Compass Center
Professional Leadership
- Leadership Tomorrow, Class of 2002 – 2003
Related Employment
- University of Washington School of Law, Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy
Clerkships
- Hon. William Shubb, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1994 - 1995