Billie Jo M. Risheim counsels and represents employers in labor and employment law matters. Billie Jo assists businesses of all different sizes in navigating workplace issues such as discrimination, retaliation, and harassment claims, wage and hour class actions, workplace violence protective proceedings, and executive compensation. Billie Jo also has the experience of assisting businesses to defend against Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) claims. Outside of litigation, Billie Jo is skilled in assisting clients with several different varieties of employment contracting, including separation, unfair competition and proprietary rights, executive compensation, tax equalization, and merger agreements. Further, Billie Jo has extensive experience assisting businesses with reductions in force, with knowledge of both the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) and state analogs, and the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA).
Before joining Littler, she clerked and externed for Justice Bronson D. James of the Oregon Supreme Court.
Billie Jo has an Intellectual Property Certification from the University of Oregon Law School. She was an executive editor of the Oregon Law Review, and recipient of the Oregon Law Review Maxine Lee Award for Editorial Excellence. Billie Jo’s background in biochemistry affords her a distinctive ability in understanding businesses’ technical and scientific offerings, aiding her capability to counsel and represent those businesses in labor and employment matters.
