Mike Jacobson -- The Employee Advocate -- has been focusing since 1990 on individual employment rights litigation.  He has been focusing since 2008 on US immigration compliance matters for individuals and businesses.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Dewey v. Seattle School District No. 1 (King County No. 93-2-18677-9) -- $343,000 judgment entered upon six-day discrimination trial. No appeal.

Bohon v. Arco (King County No. 86-2-18134-2) -- Trial testimony prompted Court of Appeals to instruct the trial judge to enter judgment determining the defendant committed disability discrimination. (On retrial of damage amount, the claim settled, amount under seal.)

Hahn v. Yale (Court of Appeals Docket No. 37839-2-I) -- Court of Appeals reversed in part with instructions to enter Rule 68 judgment for the plaintiff and for defendant to pay plaintiff's legal fees.

In Re: Extraordinary Removal at the Northern Border -- A cross border L-1 business owner was extraordinarily removed from the US at the northern border for 5 years without a hearing based upon an error interpreting the client’s visa authority.  Based upon an appeal to the US Attorney General, the client’s L-1 business authorization was renewed and the Extraordinary Removal action was canceled and forever removed from his US CIS records.

Snohomish Co. Case No. 03-2-10084-4 -- The arbitrator awarded the clients $49,210.31 for unpaid wage, double unpaid wage, interest, costs, and legal fee reimbursements.

Snohomish Co. Case No. 04-2-06486 -- The Court’s June 1, 2008 Order Confirming  Class Action Settlement approved an award of $425,000 to be distributed among the Latino surnamed workers for unpaid wage, double unpaid wage, overtime wage, double overtime wage, unfunded insurance benefits and legal fee reimbursements which the employer withheld from them.

Washington Court of Appeals Division 1 (Docket No. 58478-2-I) -- The court reversed dismissal of our client’s guaranteed 3-year employment contract claim, and remanded the case for a trial on the contract.

Mediator, United States District Court, Western District of Washington

Mediator, Mercer Island Neighborhood Mediation Program

Arbitrator, King County Superior Court

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Bar Admissions:

Washington State Supreme Court and all Washington courts

Alaska Supreme Court

United States District Court, Western District of Washington

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit

Memberships

W.E.L.A Washington Employment Lawyers Association

A.I.L.A. American Immigration Lawyers Association

Washington State Association for Justice

EDUCATION

J.D., Lewis and Clark, Northwestern School of Law, 1982

B.A., University of Rochester (NY), 1978

LIMITATION ON USE It would be unwise to believe that your case will have the results described above simply because they have been achieved in other cases. Each case is different, the product of different facts and circumstances. No person can predict the outcome of your case based upon a past experience. Representative experiences are reported above solely to illustrate the breadth of and extent of the lawyer's experience.

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MICHAEL A. JACOBSON

The Employee Advocate