Gainey Law, PLLC Seattle Employment Law Attorney

          I just had the pleasure of meeting with the Workplace Bullying Project's founder Lauri Lilli. What a breathe of fresh air for this lawyer. I am so weary of having to tell people I can not help them if they are still employed - because the employer has not taken that final "adverse employment action" or because though they are being horrifically bullied it is not illegal discrimination under the law.  There are no employment police you can call to show up at your workplace and make your boss, manager, supervisory or co-worker stop targeting, undermining, or backstabbing you. The law provides you the right to fight for damages only after unlawful (discriminatory) workplace actions have risen to a certain level of severity or pervasivenes. The case law defines a hostile work environment as harassment that changes the conditions of your job. It must be either severe or pervasive. In almost all cases it must also by based on some discriminatory animus. Meaning most w

 The story of this pod cast: Battle Tactics for Your Sexist Workplace is a lesson in how far we (in this case “progressive” public radio still have to go to achieve anything close to equity in  the workplace 

October 2023 Book Review: Update on Dodd's Deposition Guide  Read the Review Here June 2022 Book Review: Damages Evolving : A collaboration by David Ball, Artemis Malekpour, Courtney Rowley, and Nicholas Rowley. WSAJ Trial News. Read The Review Here.   January 2021: Article: Corporate Accountability in the Age of COVID : Pandemic-weary jurors provide justice for plaintiffs while holding corporations accountable - WSAJ Trial News. Read the Article Here.  Corporate Accountability in the Age of COVID: Pandemic-weary jurors provide justice for plaintiffs while holding corporations accountable Publication Date:  January 2021 Volume:  56-5 Author:  Nicole Gainey Categories:  In the News, Asbestos, Product Liability, Verdicts & Settlements, Wrongful Death, COVID-19 It’s 1962. In Moses Lake, Washington, a ten-year-old boy named Ray Budd splashes water into a bucket of Kaiser-Gypsum joint compound (aka drywall "mud"). Dust fills the air as he mixes the compound into a smooth m

  Jury Awards $1 Million to Woman Who Was Told, ‘I Don’t Serve Black People’ Rose Wakefield was ignored by an attendant at a gas station in Beaverton, Ore., near Portland, as white customers who pulled in after her were served first, according to the lawsuit. By  McKenna Oxenden Jan. 28, 2023 A woman in Oregon was awarded $1 million in damages this week after a jury found that she was discriminated against when a gas station attendant told her he didn’t “serve Black people.” The decision by the jury in Multnomah County, which came after a four-day civil trial, included $550,000 in punitive damages. Greg Kafoury, a lawyer for Rose Wakefield, the plaintiff, said his client felt “vindicated” and was looking forward to putting this case behind her. “This company deserved to be publicly humiliated just as they had publicly humiliated my client by calling her a liar in court for four days when she had been telling the truth,” Mr. Kafoury said in an interview on Saturday.

A 2017 - 2019 (published in March 2021) study found a "wide variation in serious disciplinary actions taken per 1,000 physicians across states and the District of Columbia, [making] it is clear that many, if not most, state medical boards are doing a dangerously lax job in enforcing their states’ medical practice acts .  "There is no evidence that the observed differences in state disciplinary action rates can be explained by differences in the competence or conduct of the physicians practicing in the various states and, therefore, must be related to differences in how well or poorly the licensing boards adhere to their legal responsibility to protect the public from incompetent or miscreant licensees." Low rates of serious disciplinary actions suggest that medical boards are not adequately taking actions to discipline physicians responsible for negligent medical care or whose behavior is unacceptably dangerous to patients.  See the study   Washington State ranked 29th. 

Gainey Law, PLLC currently represents client(s) related to the wrongful acts of Dr. Douglas Robinson and the Washington State entities that enabled his bizarre and harmful behavior for decades. Despite numerous complaints, the Department of Labor and Industry did nothing to protect Washington workers against Dr. Douglas one of LNI’s highest paid medical examiners. If you received a forced medical exam (IME, independent medical exam) from Dr. Robinson we want to here from you. Please call our office at 206-354-4211.  Despite serious complaints against this doctor dating back years, neither the Department of Labor and Industry nor the Washington State Medical Commission has taken any action agaisnt this doctor.  King 5  Coverage State Paid Psychiatrist Never Held Accountable.  Prior Complaints to the Department of Labor and Industry against LNI IME doctor, Douglas P. Robinson   Date Logged / IME Date Reported by SI/SF Complaint Quality Concern / Concern / Provider Name 8/17/2020 / 6/10/2

  M ore than 150 years after slaves were freed in the U.S., voters in five states will soon decide whether to close loopholes that led to the proliferation of a different form of slavery — forced labor by people convicted of certain crimes. None of the proposals would force immediate changes inside the states’ prisons, though they could lead to legal challenges related to how they use prison labor, a lasting imprint of slavery’s legacy on the entire United States. The effort is part of  a national push  to amend the  13th Amendment  to the U.S. Constitution that banned enslavement or involuntary servitude except as a form of criminal punishment. That exception has long permitted the exploitation of labor by convicted felons. “The idea that you could ever finish the sentence ‘slavery’s okay when ... ' has to rip out your soul, and I think it’s what makes this a fight that ignores political lines and brings us together, because it feels so clear,” said Bianca Tylek, executive directo