SEBRIS BUSTO JAMES

is one of the top firms in Washington state representing employers since 1992 in the areas of labor and employment law representation, and human resources management counseling and training.

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Powerful Arguments

Senior Counsel Jason Rossiter and Managing Shareholder Jeff James recently delivered some good news to our client that had been accused of wrongfully terminating an employee.  After engaging in significant discovery efforts, they filed a motion for summary judgment.  The night before the deadline for plaintiff’s response, his counsel wrote to say that rather than […]

A Permanent Solution to a Pesky Problem

After an employee quit to join a competitor, taking with him the client’s trade secrets and confidential information, Associate Matt Kelly and Managing Shareholder Jeff James jumped in to help fix things.  It was not easy or quick, but in the end they were able to connect the evidentiary dots in a way that lead […]

Smoking Gun Leads to Dismissal

Managing Shareholder Jeff James and Senior Counsel Jason Rossiter teamed up to obtain the dismissal with prejudice of federal False Claims Act allegations against our client.  Through tenacious and widespread discovery efforts, Jason and Jeff uncovered a “smoking gun” in the plaintiff’s past employment.  Shortly after this discovery was shared with plaintiff’s counsel, the federal […]

Now, it’s up to the jury

Jeff James has wrapped up another tour of duty reviewing and revising the Washington Practice Instructions, or “WPI’s” as they are commonly referred to by courts and counsel.  For over ten years Jeff has served on a blue-ribbon panel whose task is to review and update the WPIs used as model jury instructions in employment […]

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