Molly M. Daily

Experience

Molly Daily is of counsel practicing in the Labor and Employment practice section and has extensive experience in a wide variety of employment litigation matters including age, sex, race and religious discrimination claims; wage and hour class actions; WISHA appeals; and noncompetition agreements. She is also experienced in drafting and reviewing employee handbooks, conducting investigations and advising employers on employment law issues.

Before Joining Stoel Rives, Molly was a law clerk for the Honorable Fred Van Sickle at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (1998-2000).

Representative Work

• Successfully represented the employer in Roe v. TeleTech, in which the Washington Supreme Court determined that Washington's medical marijuana statute did not create a cause of action for discipline based on an employee's use of medical marijuana.
• Obtained summary judgment in federal district court on behalf of employer in a post-September 11 religious discrimination case and successfully defended the district court's order on appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
• Successfully defended employer in a trial involving claims of sex and family status discrimination, retaliation, and sexual harassment.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Listed among Rising Stars (Employment and Labor) by Washington Super Lawyers®, 2006-2012
• Former Board Member, American Red Cross Serving King & Kitsap Counties

Presentations

• Panelist, "Medical Marijuana, Prescription Drugs and I-502," The Seminar Group Labor and Employment Seminar, Aug. 2013
• "Medical Marijuana and Prescription Drugs," The Seminar Group Labor and Employment Seminar (seminar co-chair), Aug. 2012
• "Can You Avoid Employment Problems By Having No Employees?," WAACO, May 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
• "But I Have A Card: Medical Marijuana Laws and the Workplace," Association of Washington Cities Expo, Sept. 2011
• "Termination Without Tears," Stoel Rives LLP Breakfast Seminar Series, Oct. 2008

Education

• Duke University School of Law, J.D., 1998, cum laude
  Managing Editor, Alaska Law Review
• University of Washington, B.A., 1995, cum laude
  Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

• Washington
• U.S. District Court for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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