Economic and Social Justice
Our firm is committed to providing cost-effective, first-rate legal services to labor unions and mission-consistent clients, ranging from background and technical support to aggressive legal action—whether you're organizing new employees or an innovative picketing program, bargaining a contract, going to interest arbitration, fighting against wage theft, seeking fairness and dignity on the job, or going about the painstaking work of bending the arc of justice.
Our clients include unions in virtually every sector, including communications, construction, clerical, education, healthcare, transportation, marine, manufacturing, maintenance, news/entertainment, service, technology, government, fire safety, retail, hospitality/restaurant, aerospace, and air transport.
We represent a broad spectrum of other economic and social justice organizations. We also fight to protect the civil rights of individual employees to a fair, discrimination-free, harassment-free workplace.
History
Birthed from the massacres of Industrial Workers of the World in Everett and Chehalis in the second decade of the 20th century, Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt LLP continues the fight to defend and extend the labor movement.
Through the days of the Seattle General Strike, the Spokane Free Speech Fight, and the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike through some of the country's harshest labor strife of the Depression and afterwards, BI&L has stood side-by-side with labor unions.
BI&L continues to stand in solidarity, supporting labor unions in the northwest and beyond. In today’s global and high-tech economy, we support the achievement of economic and social justice by working people in every aspect of their lives.
From our Seattle base, the firm currently represents over 150 public- and private-sector unions across the nation and numerous economic and social justice organizations.
From advising on institutional structure and organizing to negotiation to litigation, BI&L is a full-service labor law firm. We concentrate on preventive law in an effort to minimize legal costs, but are ready to take on any challenge and to meet the needs of labor unions and organizations of any size.
Innovative tactics, strategic organizing, and aggressive litigation to achieve our clients’ goals lie at the heart of our practice.
