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Admitted: 1997, Washington Law School: Seattle University, J.D. Member: Washington State Bar Association; Washington Employment Lawyers Association. Biography: Member, Moot Court. Lead Article Editor, Seattle University Law Review. Born: Kodiak, Alaska, May 16, 1971
Anne-Marie Sargent has practiced law since 1997. Ms. Sargent focuses her practice primarily on the areas of employment law, and employment and consumer class actions. Ms. Sargent represents employees in a variety of employment disputes, including wage and hour cases, discrimination cases, and harassment cases. Ms. Sargent also enjoys consulting with companies in a preventative manner to address and resolve employment disputes before litigation.
Ms. Sargent has worked on a variety of employment matters, including Port v. Abercrombie & Fitch, in which plaintiffs alleged the company had violated Washington's wearing apparel statute by requiring its employees to purchase its clothes to wear to work, which was settled for a refund to employees after the case was certifed as a class action; Sharkey et. al. v. Reynolds Aluminum, a gender discrimination case in which the jury awarded three plaintiffs $425,000 after a three-week trial; Fossum v. Washington Department of Corrections, a gender discrimination and retaliation case in which the Department paid the highest amount it had ever paid in settlement of an employment claim; and a race and gender discrimination case on behalf of three plaintiffs where the settlement was nearly $2 million. Ms. Sargent has also worked on several consumer class actions, including cases against wireless phone service providers.
Ms. Sargent was born and raised in Kodiak, Alaska, and fished on her father's salmon seine boat during two summers in college. Ms. Sargent graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Psychology in 1993, and attended Seattle University School of Law where she graduated summa cum laude in 1997. Ms. Sargent also studied at Cambridge, England for one summer during law school, including taking a course with Chief Justice William Rehnquist. In January, 2006, she formed Connor & Sargent PLLC, with Stephen Connor.
Ms. Sargent has been repeatedly selected as a Rising Star in the
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