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Diane

Diane L. Cushing

Counsel to the Firm

Diane Cushing is an experienced employee benefits attorney, with an LL.M. in Taxation, who counsels and represents large corporate, association, public sector, and multi- and single-employer benefit plans. She regularly assists clients with Department of Labor and Internal Revenue code compliance, employee benefits litigation, and strategies for benefits plan design, modification and administration.

Diane also represents and advises national, regional, and local private and public-sector employers in federal and state trial and appellate courts, before administrative agencies, and in arbitration in labor and employment issues.

Professional Experience

Ekman Cushing Maxwell, PC

Partner (2016-2017)
Associate Attorney (2011-2016)

Song Mondress PLLC, Associate Attorney (2008-2009)

Perkins Coie LLP, Contract Attorney (2007; 2010)

North American Energy Services, Office of the General Counsel, Contract Attorney (2006)

Jackson Lewis LLP, Contract Attorney (2004-2005)

Preston, Gates & Ellis LLP, Contract Attorney (2003-2004)

Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Office of the General Counsel

Contract Attorney (2003)
Senior Counsel (1994-1999)

David Grimm Payne Marra & Berry, Associate Attorney (1999-2002)

King County Superior Court, Law Clerk to the Honorable Anthony P. Wartnik (1994-1995)

Thought Leadership

July 29, 2019News
Cushing Joins the Labor, Employment & Benefits Team
Firm Announcement

Practices & Industries

ERISA, Life, Health & Disability
Labor, Employment & Benefits
Wage & Hour

Education

University of Washington School of Law, LL.M., Taxation
Lewis and Clark College, Northwestern School of Law, J.D., 1992
- Environmental Law, Associate Editor
- Honors, Legal Writing
- Dean’s Fellowship
- Senior Counsel Program, Selected Participant
University of Washington, B.A., Political Science
- Dean’s List
- Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society

Admissions

Washington
U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Washington
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Colorado
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

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