Sevilla Claydon

Biography

Sevilla Claydon is a partner in the Labor and Employment Group at Garvey Schubert Barer. She has over ten years of employment litigation experience in multiple judicial and administrative forums. Additionally, she provides businesses, government entities and Tribes with preventative advice, investigative services, and training on a wide range of employment matters.

One of the first Washington employment lawyers trained in Collaborative Law, Ms. Claydon uses interest-based methodology and other ADR processes to obtain more efficient, creative and dignified solutions to her client's disputes than are generally available in traditional litigation. She is a trained facilitative mediator and the co-creator of the Win2 employment claims resolution process.

In 2000, the King County Bar Association named her as the Outstanding Young Lawyer. Other recognition includes the 1999 LEGAL's Equality in the Legal Profession award and, for six consecutive years, she has been named by her peers as one of the "Rising Stars" of Washington law in Washington Law & Politics magazine.

Committed to public service, she serves on the firm's Public Service and Sustainability Committees. Among other volunteer activities, she was recently a King County Library System Foundation board member and is serving a seventh year on the Access to Justice Conference Planning Committee. Ms. Claydon has chaired the Washington State Bar Association's Civil Rights Committee, the WSBA Diversity Committee and Washington LEGALS. She is also a former Vice President of King County Washington Women Lawyers.