Marilyn Endriss

Biography

Ms. Endriss is a principal and owner of Sound Conflict Solutions LLC, which provides mediation services regarding workplace conflicts, business disputes and employment-related litigation, consultant services to businesses, agencies and organizations about ways to improve effective communication and build healthy, productive work teams, facilitation services regarding conflict management and strategic planning, and skills training in communication, negotiation, teambuilding.

Prior to forming Sound Conflict Solutions LLC, Ms. Endriss was an employment law attorney for over 20 years. From 1999 to 2001, she served as an administrative judge for the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Since 2005, she has been a contract mediator for the EEOC and conducts mediations throughout Washington and Oregon. Ms. Endriss is a part-time faculty member of the University of Washington School of Law where she has taught the spring quarter class on client interviewing and counseling since 2007.

Ms. Endriss is a Rule 39.1 mediator for the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, a certified mediator member of the Washington Mediation Association, a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and a founding member of Mediators Beyond Borders. She is also a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, having served as chair of its Employment Subcommittee of the Civil Collaborative Practice Committee from 2005 to 2007. She is an active member of the Washington State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section and served as its chair from 2005 to 2006. She served on WSBA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee from 2005 to 2006 as well as its Pro Bono Mediation Panel from 2003 to 2007. She was a WSBA representative to the Washington State Supreme Court Pattern Jury Instruction Committee from 1996 to 2000. Currently, she serves on the WSBA Legislative Committee.

As a mediator and facilitator, she enjoys volunteering for the Seattle Federal Executive Board ADR Consortium, the King County Interlocal Conflict Resolution Group, the City of Seattle ADR Program and the Dispute Resolution Center of Snohomish and Island Counties.

As an employment trial attorney, Ms. Endriss worked as a staff attorney for the Northwest Women’s Law Center and was co-counsel in the 1982 trial of Blair v. Washington State University, 108 Wn.2d 558 (1987). She was trial and appellate counsel in Allison v. Housing Authority, 118 Wn.2d 79 (1991); Wlasiuk v. Whirlpool Corp., 81 Wn. App. 163 (1996); Wlasiuk v. Whirlpool Corp., 76 Wn. App. 250 (1994); Griffin v. Eller, 130 Wn. 2d 58 (1996).