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Legal counsel navigating workplace challenges for optimal business outcomes.

Businesses large and small look to Hana to solve problems and manage risk. Hana advises clients on employee discrimination, harassment and retaliation complaints, accommodation and leave issues, terminations, wage and hour compliance, employee handbooks and contract issues. As an experienced litigator, Hana handles complex litigation, defense of employment class actions and other employment-related claims as well as whistle-blower cases and embezzlement lawsuits. She partners with employers in advising on and conducting workplace investigations. With more than 30 years in legal practice, Hana knows the enormous value of preventing litigation whenever possible, but she’s a tenacious advocate when circumstances demand a stronger approach.

Hana draws on her years of experience to help clients navigate workplace challenges and achieve successful outcomes. She focuses on building relationships and understanding her clients’ business needs and goals. The solutions she offers blend creativity and functionality in alignment with her clients’ business realities.

Hana is a member of Ryan Swanson’s Employment Law Advising & Defense Litigation group and the Litigation team.

PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

  • Member, Association of Workplace Investigators
  • Member, Women Business Owners
  • Alumni, National Charity League
  • Legacy Speaker, Holocaust Center for Humanity’s Speakers Bureau

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • “Building Better Performance Evaluation Programs”, Member Expo, Association of Washington Cities (2026)
  • “Crucial Conversations: Techniques for Conducting Effective Workplace Investigation Interviews”, Ryan Swanson’s Annual Employment Law Virtual Seminar (2025)
  • “Understanding Employee Class Actions: A Guide for HR Professionals”, Association of Washington Cities, Labor Relations Institute (2025)
  • “Navigating DEI in the Workplace: Strategies and Legal Considerations”, King County Bar Association’s In-House Counsel Section (2024)
  • “Beyond the Basics: Mastering Workplace Accommodation“, Ryan Swanson’s Annual Employment Law Virtual Seminar (2024)
  • “Navigating DEI in Public Sectors: Strategies and Legal Considerations”, Labor Relations Institute Conference, Association of Washington Cities (2024)
  • “Navigating Workplace Investigations: Best Practices and Strategies”, Ryan Swanson’s Annual Employment Law Virtual Seminar (2023)
  • “Recent Developments in State and Federal Law”, Ryan Swanson’s Annual Employment Law Virtual Seminar (2022)
  • “Long-Term Care Act and More: Clearing the Smoke on New Washington Laws”, Ryan Swanson’s Annual Employment Law Virtual Seminar (2021)
  • “Workplace Accommodation and the Interactive Process through the Lens of COVID,” Ryan Swanson’s Annual Employment Law Virtual Seminar (2020)
  • “Employer Obligations under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act,” Women Business Owners (2020)
  • “Recent Developments in State & Federal Law,” Ryan Swanson’s Annual Employment Law Seminar (2018)
  • “Taking Leave: Paid Sick & Safe Leave Throughout Washington State,” Ryan Swanson’s Annual Employment Law Seminar (Co-presenter; 2017)
  • “Five Things Seattle Employers Need to Know,” Business Network International (2017)
  • “Your Business and the Law,” Association of Landscape Designers (2016)

ARTICLES

LANGUAGES

  • Czech

HOBBIES & INTERESTS

When not practicing law, Hana speaks to local schoolchildren and community groups about the Holocaust, sharing her father’s story of concentration camp survival in war-torn Czechoslovakia. She has dual citizenship with the Czech Republic and speaks fluent Czech. Hana enjoys life by traveling, skiing, swimming, biking, practicing yoga, and playing with her dog, and by delighting in the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest

Credentials

Education

Admitted to Practice