Robert Van Siclen Lawyer Reviews & Ratings - Auburn

Robert Van Siclen has practiced law in South King County for more than 50 years and is considered by his legal peers to be one of the most experienced trial lawyers in the State of Washington. He concentrates his practice in litigation of complicated issues, including commercial matters of all kinds, major personal injury and wrongful death cases, products liability (especially aircraft and aviation products), and professional malpractice cases. Peer rated in Martindale-Hubbell with an AV rating every year since the 1970s (the first such rating granted any lawyer in the City of Auburn) and selected as a "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics Magazine, he provides unmatched representation to all of his clients.. Over the past 50 years of representing clients all over the State of Washington, he has recovered settlements or judgments of up to $23 million for his clients. His trial practice has taken him into a number of other states and into Europe. He was the attorney who represented a number of people who were falsely accused of child molestation in Wenatchee, Washington, and in every case obtained defense verdicts and later, through the pursuit of civil litigation for the Wenatchee Defendants, recovered millions of dollars for his clients who had previously been wrongfully incarcerated. He has represented estates of people who died in major airline disaster accidents and has brought and tried to conclusion by either verdict or out of court settlement many general aviation accident cases against general aviation manufacturers.. Bob has been active in his church, the community and the Bar Association. Among others, he is a past president of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce, the Auburn Kiwanis Club and served on the Board of Directors of the Auburn YMCA. He is the past president of the South King County Bar Association. He is admitted to practice law in all courts in the State of Washington including both the Western and Eastern Federal District Courts of this State, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Bob started the law firm of Van Siclen, Stocks & Firkins which is one of the largest law firms between Seattle and Tacoma with 8 attorneys and a supporting staff of 13 paralegal assistants.