James Sanders

Practice Areas

Employment Litigation

Noncompetition Litigation

Trade Secrets

Traditional Labor

Labor & Employment Law

Litigation

Employment Counseling & Training

Workplace Investigations & Audits

Employment Privacy

Intellectual Property Law

Class Action Defense

Business Litigation

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance & Litigation

Workplace Harassment

Educational Institutions & Services

Career

Trial attorney James Sanders focuses on employment law. His trial practice covers all types of legal disputes that arise between employees and employers, including employment discrimination, whistleblower, trade secret, non-competition, employee raiding, wage-and-hour and employment class action disputes. Throughout his career, James has obtained dozens of winning jury verdicts, bench trial judgments and arbitration awards on behalf of Perkins Coie clients. An experienced first-chair trial attorney, he is frequently engaged to take over as a matter approaches trial.

James also has an active counseling practice, especially in high-tech, gaming and biotechnology, having assisted clients such as F5, Pokemon, Amazon, Microsoft, Avanade, T-Mobile and Boeing with executive negotiations, employee IP disputes and other complex employment issues.