McCarty Dispute Resolution
Mark McCarty
Mark graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1979. He immediately went to work for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, investigating and prosecuting unfair labor practices and enforcing NLRB decisions in the federal courts of appeals.
In 1988, he moved to Seattle to work for Aitchison, Snyder, and Hoag representing law enforcement labor organizations. In 1990, he joined Reaugh, Fischnaller & Oettinger continuing his representation of law enforcement unions and individual employees, especially in state retirement issues. With three other attorneys, he started a new law firm, Campiche, Hepburn, McCarty & Bianco in 1995 continuing his representation of unions and individual employees, with a focus on wage and hour issues.
In 2002, the new chief of police in Seattle, Gil Kerlikowske, convinced Mark that he should join his administration as his Employment Legal Advisor. In 2007, Mark was promoted by Chief Kerlikowske to the Department’s Human Resources Director. Mark served in that capacity until 2012 when he voluntarily left because of disagreements with the Department’s direction under the new chief of police.
Mark then worked on his own for a couple of years representing individual employees and one public sector labor union on various matters. In 2014, Mark returned to St. Louis to assist with some family matters and to work for the St. Louis Civil Rights Enforcement Agency investigating and enforcing the city’s housing and employment laws. He returned to Seattle in late 2016 to work for the Seattle School District dealing with labor and employment issues. He left the School District and went to work for Kaiser Permanente of Washington in 2022 handling all labor issues with its organized administrative staff. Mark retired from full-time employment in 2023.
Mark has spent the past year traveling and successfully gaining full workers’ compensation coverage for the family of a law enforcement officer who, suffering from PTSD, took his own life.