Mark Nelson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Daily provide legal advice to member clients on labor and employment law matters, from alleged employment discrimination to complex labor law topics; draft and review contracts; represent employers before governmental agencies; conduct workplace investigations and, when not the investigator, advise employers on next steps based on the investigator’s.

Greater Seattle Area

• Daily consulted with business owners—some with no inhouse HR function, others with fully-staffed HR departments—on compliance best practices concerning a spectrum of employment matters; conducted workplace.
• Fastest onboarding, highest departmental percentage of hours directly billable to client, and, with departmental colleagues, highest volume of client questions fielded in company history—within the first year of.
• In all-employee meeting, individually recognized by company president for exceptional customer service.

Los Angeles, CA & Washington, DC

• Led a department of HR consultants; managed the most valued service line in the company, based on customer feedback; provided counsel to CHROs and HR professionals on complex employee relations issues; drafted.
• Singled out in company surveys for providing superior consulting services and making compliance topics accessible.
• Regularly tasked by CEO to provide consulting services on the most challenging topics to the most valuable clients.

Kaiserslautern, Germany

• Coached students on academic planning; prepared syllabi, assignments, exams, and delivered courses in academic research, expository writing, and business in classrooms and online for a university providing degree.
• In student evaluations, consistently rated among the top faculty members in each discipline taught.

Los Angeles, CA

• Provided compliance solutions and management best practices to 3000+ member companies; developed webinars and classroom training and delivered the same; researched common law, legislative, and regulatory HR.
• Recognized as the highest consulting producer in the department, resolving over 20,000 compliance- and management-related issues during tenure.

Denver, CO

• Represented employers in legal matters before the EEOC, DOL, NLRB, OSHA, OSHRC, equivalent state agencies, and in labor arbitrations; negotiated collective bargaining agreements and settlements; drafted contracts.
• Achieved 100% success rate on 60+ position statements filed with the EEOC and equivalent state agency.
• First-chaired 20+ labor arbitrations and won all contract interpretation cases and most grievance cases.

J.D.

• Senior Note & Comment Editor, Iowa Law Review

M.A., English Literary Research

• Graduate Exchange Fellow, University of Colorado’s Office of International Education

B.A., Humanities

• Jacob van Ek Scholar (1 of 20 honored from entire College of Arts & Sciences) • Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society • Mortar Board.

Education record