Ms Molly Gabel > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Seattle, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Molly Gabel
Work Department
Labor & Employment; Labor Management Relations
Position
Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Career
Ms. Gabel delivers strategic, client-focused legal solutions, using her insight gleaned from previously serving as the head labor and employment and litigation attorney at Alaska Airlines, Inc. and Horizon Air Industries, Inc. for several years.
Ms. Gabel represents clients in numerous industries, including air transportation, hospitality, health care, retail and e-commerce, manufacturing, trucking, media, entertainment, construction, and mining. Her experience includes advising on, negotiating, and litigating matters covered by the Railway Labor Act and the National Labor Relations Act, including collective bargaining, grievance arbitrations, withdrawal liability arbitrations, interest arbitrations, union organizing, and corporate campaigns.
With significant in-house and outside counsel experience for air carriers in particular, Ms. Gabel understands the complexity of an airline’s business and the importance of maintaining good labor relations with an airline’s employees and union leaders. She has advised on, managed, and handled every aspect of labor and employment law that an air carrier faces, including preemption litigation, wage-hour class actions and PAGA lawsuits, USERRA class actions, lawsuits and charges related to discrimination and leaves of absence, AIR21 charges, labor contract negotiations, merger and acquisition-related advice and counseling, interest arbitrations, contract interpretation arbitrations, discharge arbitrations, labor disruption counseling and contingency planning, union organizing campaigns and representation elections, employment law compliance advice, and transactional benefits matters.
Memberships
American Bar Association, Section of Labor & Employment Law, Council Member (2020-2023); Young Lawyers Division, Labor & Employment Law Committee, former co-chair; Section of Labor and Employment, Railway Labor Act Committee; Section of Labor and Employment, Committee on Practice & Procedure Under the NLRA; Washington State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section.
Education
JD, Washington University School of Law, (2004), with honors, Managing Editor, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy; BM, Boston University (2001), summa cum laude; BA, Boston University (2001), summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; Mini-MBA for In-House Counsel, Association of Corporate Counsel, Boston University (2016).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
Seyfarth Shaw LLP offers a deep bench of experienced lawyers, handling a full-range of labor-management relations mandates. Praised as ‘top notch’, the team focuses on all matters relating to organized labor: complex labor arbitrations, negotiations pertaining to collective bargaining, unfair labor practice charges, representation before the National Labor Relations Board and union organizing campaigns. Glenn Smith chairs the practice group and is based in New York, with support from vice-chair and Seattle-based Molly Gabel. Washington DC’s Bryan O’Keefe focuses on traditional labor law matters, including NLRB unfair practice charges and administrative law judge trials. In Boston, ‘extraordinary’ lawyer Arthur Telegen advises major clients on complex collective bargaining agreements, alongside general labor-management relations issues. Chicago-based Karla Sanchez maintains her impressive practice in the space, predominantly engaging on unfair labor practice proceedings and representations before the NLRB. Former co-chair Kyllan Kershaw left in October 2022, whilst Bradford Livingston retired in July 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Government > Government contracts
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious