Labor, employment, workers’ compensation and family law firm Willig, Williams & Davidson announced that attorney Erica Askin has joined the firm’s labor law practice group as an associate.

Askin comes to the firm with more than 15 years of experience in the courtroom and at the negotiating table. She was the first woman business manager elected by the public employee members of a trades’ union local, the sole in-house counsel to a large private sector union local in Oregon, and a representative of a nurses’ union in right-to-work Florida during the height of the pandemic. She most recently practiced as a plaintiff’s employment attorney.