Willert, Sheryl J.
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Practice Areas:
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Labor & Employment
Litigation - Commercial
Professional Liability
Crisis Management & Media Relations
Class Action
International
Experience:
Sheryl Willert is Managing Director of Williams Kastner, and a Member in the Seattle office. She concentrates her practice on counseling, investigations, litigation and alternative dispute resolution experience. Ms. Willert has litigated cases involving all aspects of employment law for both unionized and nonunionized employers in both the public and private sector. Ms. Willert has extensive experience representing the defense of class actions. She is a national speaker on such topics as sexual harassment, age discrimination, and race discrimination, and has successfully defended individuals and corporations in such matters. Additionally, Ms. Willert has litigated cases involving professional negligence, product liability, personal injury, contracts and civil rights.
Ms. Willert received her BA degree with distinction from Duke University in 1975 and her JD degree from Vanderbilt University in 1978.
Affiliations:
Sheryl Willert is Chair of the Board of the National Foundation For Judicial Excellence. She is a Past President of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), the nation’s largest association of civil defense attorneys with more than 22,000 Members. She has the distinction of being both the first female and the first African-American to serve as an Officer of the DRI.
Ms. Willert is also a Member of the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Litigation Counsel of America. She serves on the advisory board for the National Employment Law Institute (NELI) and is on the Board of Directors of the USLAW Network.
Ms. Willert has been named to Super Lawyers by Washington Law & Politics magazine every year since the publication began its annual review of Washington's top lawyers in 1998. In 2003, Seattle Magazine named Ms. Willert a Top Lawyer in Labor Law. Ms. Willert has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for more than 10 years. She has also been recognized by the Seattle Met magazine as a “Top Lawyer” in Labor and Employment for 2010, a designation based upon Martindale-Hubbell's ranking of those practitioners in King County who have been judged by their peers to be “AV Preeminent”—the highest peer-review rating available.
Ms. Willert was named as one of Puget Sound Business Journal's 2007 Women of Influence. Now in its fourth year, the award program shines the spotlight on twenty local businesswomen, community leaders and philanthropists who are "a force in the Seattle community." In 2009, DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar, the nation’s largest organization of civil defense attorneys, renamed its Pioneer Diversity Award after Sheryl J. Willert. The award, now known as the Sheryl J. Willert Pioneer Diversity Award, recognizes an individual attorney for his or her demonstrated commitment to diversity in the legal profession. In 2010, Ms. Willert was honored as one of the Women of Power in Law at the Women of Color Empowered event hosted by the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation.
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