LISA M. HERB

Litigation/Employment Attorney
(206) 676-7000

Practice: Lisa Herb's practice focuses on commercial litigation and employment law.

Experience: Lisa has experience representing a wide variety of clients in commercial litigation matters, including complex commercial disputes, trade secret cases, unfair competition cases and contract disputes. Lisa has also represented both plaintiffs and defendants in employment law cases in state and federal court and in administrative hearings, with a focus on equal employment and discrimination issues. In addition to litigating employment law cases Lisa has provided training and advice in employment law compliance along with preventive counseling to minimize the risk of litigation.

Education: Lisa graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1988. She graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1993, with High Distinction, and was inducted into Order of the Coif. During law school, Lisa was an associate editor of the Kentucky Law Journal and a member of the National Moot Court team, as well as serving as co-chair of the Women's Law Caucus. In 2004, Lisa attended Cornell Law School's Summer Institute on International and Comparative Law in Paris, France, where she focused on international human rights.

Memberships: Lisa is a member of the American Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association. Lisa was voted a Washington State "Super Lawyer" by Washington Law & Politics lawyers' poll in 2002. Lisa is the President of the Alliance for International Women's Rights.

Related Experience: From 1995 to 1996 Lisa was selected to participate in Princeton University's Princeton-in-Asia program where she was a university lecturer in the Faculties of Law and English at Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand.