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Priya B. Vivian

Partner She / Her / Hers
Seattle

Priya Vivian serves as co-leader of the firm’s Labor and Employment Group. She is a dedicated employment adviser and litigator. Her solutions-oriented practice focuses on advising and representing employers on the full employment cycle, from hiring to terminations and beyond.

Priya provides tailored and strategic guidance to employers on hiring, executive agreements, employment agreements, restrictive covenants, leaves, disability accommodation, employment policies, discipline, and separations. She also provides engaging on-site and virtual training that captures the latest local, state, and federal employment law updates. She defends employers in class and collective actions, wage and hour, discrimination, retaliation, and harassment matters before administrative or government agencies, arbitration panels, and state and federal court.

Experience 

Representative Matters

Priya has represented employers in the following types of matters:

  • Department of Labor investigations;
  • Breach of contract;
  • Misappropriation of trade secrets;
  • Discrimination, retaliation, and harassment claims;
  • Wage and hour disputes;
  • Complaints filed with the EEOC and state and local administrative agencies; and
  • Collective and class actions before state and federal courts.

Professional Highlights

Professional Activities

Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Fellow, 2021

Pacific Coast Labor & Employment Law Conference, Planning Committee Member, 2024

Recognition & Accomplishments

Chambers USA, Labor & Employment, 2022-2024

Thomson Reuters, “Washington Super Lawyer,” Employment & Labor, 2023-2024

Thomson Reuters, “Washington Rising Star,” Employment & Labor, 2019-2022

Emory Law Young Alumni Award, Inaugural Co-Recipient

Speaking Engagements

Presenter, “Best Practices for Best Employers” Lane Powell Labor & Employment Seminar, September and October, 2023, 2024

“Wage & Hours,” Association of Washington Business, April 3, 2024  

“Is Mental Health Billable?” World Law Group, October 17, 2023

“Wage & Hours,” Association of Washington Business, April 12, 2023

“Responsible Business Forum,” World Law Group, March 29, 2023

Hon. David L. Russell, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, 2015-2016

Board Memberships & Community Service

Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association of Seattle, Board Member, 2019-2022

Emory Law Alumni Association, Board Member, 2012-2021

Director of Mentoring for Georgia, Women in Cable Telecommunications Southeast Division, Board Member, 2014-2015

Ladder Down Seattle, 2017 Class

The American Employment Law Council

Credentials 

Education

Emory University School of Law (J.D., with honors, 2009)
Order of the Coif
Emory Law Journal, Executive Symposium Editor
Henry L. Bowden Scholar

Emory University (B.S. 2004)

Languages

Marathi – Fluent 

Admissions

Washington

Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit