Heather Pearce Lawyer Reviews & Ratings - Seattle

Heather Pearce Bio
Summary of Practice Areas:. About Heather Pearce CampbellHeather’s practice focuses primarily on information entrepreneurs and online businesses. She services coaches, consultants, online educators and experts, speakers and authors with a wide range of business legal needs. She has a wide range of litigation and transactional experience within business and real estate. Visit her website for more information.. She assists her business clients with numerous issues facing modern businesses and entrepreneurs – from business formation and implementing essential business contracts to protect her clients’ work and their relationships with their customers and clients, to advising on various issues including advertising, cybersecurity, protecting online content, services, programs and intellectual property (including trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets), as well as asset and risk management. She has drafted, reviewed and negotiated all kinds of contracts for her clients, including licensed professionals across numerous industries, consultants, coaches, online educators, speakers and authors, amongst many others.. She has extricated numerous of her real estate clients from difficult scenarios, resolved boundary line disputes, undisclosed easements, adverse possession disputes, and represented numerous others in real estate transactions and development, including loan work-outs, refinances, partnership disputes, due diligence for major land acquisitions, and managed discovery, document review and database creation for large pieces of litigation involving hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation each and teams of attorneys.. To best serve her clients, one of the primary focuses of her practice is alternative dispute resolution, facilitation and mediation, having completed the Seminar on Advanced Negotiations at Harvard Law School. Prior to forming Pearce Law, PLLC Heather worked at The Buck Law Group where she assisted clients with a variety of matters in real estate, construction, and land use litigation, as well as employment, business, and contract matters.. Heather worked for U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Coughenour while in her third year of law at the University of Washington. She also spent some time during law school in London working for the British Government at the Audit Commission, and was a member of UW’s Mock Trial Team that participated in the N.I.T.A. National Mock Trial Competition held in Washington D.C. in 2001, one month after 9/11.. Heather donated more than 50 pro bono hours per year from 2005 through 2012.. Education. J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 2002B.A., Utah State University, cum laude, in finance and economics, minors in French and Spanish, 1999. Memberships. Washington State Bar Association, 2002. Oregon State Bar Association (currently inactive, 2009). Publication Contributions. WSTLA Employment Law Deskbook, compiled and edited Forms Section, 2004 (on behalf of Teller & Associates). “Honesty and Washington Rules of Professional Conduct” in conjunction with “Lawyer Jokes and What They Tell us About Professional legal Ethics” through Law Seminars International, and in presentation to the Association of Corporate Counsel. Speaking Engagements. “Protect Your Assets: Bite-Sized Legal Basics for Brilliant Entrepreneurs”:– February 22, 2020, JVology Live, San Diego, California– September 21, 2019, JVology Live, Calgary, Alberta– May 17, 2019, Let’s Talk Impact – Code to Close Live, Scottsdale, AZ. MSBA (Maryland State Bar Association) Annual Conference: “Market Disruption & Thinking Like a Business, Not a Lawyer” – Thought Leader Series, June 2018. Speaker’s Success Summit: “Bite-Sized Legal Basics for Brilliant Entrepreneurs”, July 2017, Seattle, WA. CLE: “ADR and Construction Liens”; May 21, 2008. CLE: "Real Estate Development A – Z: ADR and How to Stay Out of Superior Court; Turning Difficult Conversations into Success for Your Clients"; February 27, 2008. CLE: Co-presented with Peter Buck, “Lawyer Jokes and What They Tell us About Professional Legal Ethics”– October 19, 2004, Law Seminars International, at Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA– December 9, 2004, Association of Corporate Counsel, Columbia Tower Club– January 1, 2005, Law Seminars International, presented to King County Prosecutors, Seattle, WA. ——————————-. Heather also provides strategic and legal coaching services to entrepreneurs and small businesses around the United States (and internationally, for those with clientele and services that are US-centric), helping them protect their online and offline business services and make difficult decisions quickly and with confidence. Visit her website () for more information.