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Patrick M. Madden

Attorney at K&L Gates LLP
Seattle, Washington
Patrick is a Partner at K&L Gates LLP, former co-chair of the firm's international Labor Employment and Class Action practice groups and currently leads the firm's wage and hour class action practice. He advises employers on labor and employment issues, including wage and hour payment, and compliance and compensation plan design, assists employers responding to agency investigations, and represents employers in wage and hour, discrimination, and other lawsuits at the state and federal levels.

Patrick has wrked on more than a hundred state, regional and national wage and hour class actions, including lawsuits involving wage calculation and payment issues, entitlement to overtime and benefits, off-the-clock claims, challenges to exempt status and claims to employee status.
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Patrick is a Partner at K&L Gates LLP, former co-chair of the firm's international Labor Employment and Class Action practice groups and currently leads the firm's wage and hour class action practice. He advises employers on labor and employment issues, including wage and hour payment, and compliance and compensation plan design, assists employers responding to agency investigations, and represents employers in wage and hour, discrimination, and other lawsuits at the state and federal levels.

Patrick has wrked on more than a hundred state, regional and national wage and hour class actions, including lawsuits involving wage calculation and payment issues, entitlement to overtime and benefits, off-the-clock claims, challenges to exempt status and claims to employee status.

Patrick is listed as a top labor and employment attorney in The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, a Super Lawyer in Washington Law & Politics, one of the 29 Washington State litigation stars by Benchmark Litigation, and a leading employment lawyer in Seattle Business and Seattle Metropolitan magazines. He frequently speaks, writes, and testifies on wage and hour and wage payment issues

About Me

What professional recognitions do you have?
Listed as a top labor and employment attorney in The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
What topics have you lectured or presented on?
Jeopardizing Exempt Status, Portal to Portal Act: Determining Hours Worked at the Start and End of the Work Day, Hot Wage and Hour Issues: Overtime Concerns With Remote Access and Mobile Devices and many others

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Associations

Association Position
Association of Washington Business’s Employment Law Committee Former Chair

Education

School Degree Graduation Year
University of Washington School of Law J.D. Degree, with highest honors, Order of the Coif, Order of the Barrister 1991
Pacific Lutheran University B.F.A., magna cum laude 1983

Contact Information

K&L Gates LLP

925 4th Ave STE 2900
Seattle, WA 98104