Anne Preston

Anne Preston joined Saltchuk in January 2017 from Seattle-based law firm Garvey Schubert Barer where she was a member of the Executive Committee of for all but two years since 2001 and the Chair of the Firm since 2010. She chaired Garvey Schubert Barer’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, in 1999-2000, 2004-2006, and 2008. In 1995-96, she served as president of the Northwest Women’s Law Center’s Board of Directors.

Anne brings a wealth of experience in a full spectrum of labor and employment matters including litigation and business related labor and employment issues. She also has extensive alternative dispute resolution experience, including co-designing a successful and innovative alternative dispute resolution process called WIN2 while at GSB.

Anne’s peers have named her to The Best Lawyers in America© in the area of Labor and Employment, 2009-2015; as a “Super Lawyer” in Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, 2000-2016; and one of the Top 50 Women Washington “Super Lawyers,” 2007-2010.

Anne attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating magna cum laude in 1984. She earned her JD from University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, in 1989 and was Order of the Coif. While attending Berkeley, Anne acted as articles editor at the Berkeley Women’s Law Journal.