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The first step in successfully representing a person is attempting to step into their shoes and empathizing with their issue.  My goal upon my first meeting with a client is that by the time they step out my door they feel they have been listened to, that their issue is now in competent hands, and that the stress they have been dealing with is alleviated. I strive to work cooperatively with my clients while we work together to obtain justice. I take my client's issues personally, and represent them as I would want to be represented.. Outside of work I enjoy spending time with my wife, two kids, and two dogs. I volunteer as a youth sports coach and love playing guitar. Prior to law school I spent two years with the United States Peace Corps in Kazakhstan.  The experience left me with a love of service and renewed respect for our system of law.

Thanks for taking a look at my profile. I am originally from Alaska and am also licensed to practice there. My practice focus' on criminal defense. I've litigated all types of cases from Misdemeanors to Class "A" Felonies. I enjoy litigating cases for my clients and try to make the frightening process of being charged with a crime a little easier to bear.

Starnes Law is a firm dedicated entirely to public defense. As the only attorney and owner of Starnes Law I contract with Olympia Municipal Court for public defense services. I represent clients charged with simple/gross misdemeanors.

Ryan English has focused his law career on criminal defense since the time he began law school. As an intern at the King County Department of Public Defense, he regularly appeared in court on behalf of his clients, which was when he began delivering favorable results. He continued working as a public defender until he began his career in the private practice.. Ryan took his first case to trial in his third year of law school (as a licensed Rule 9 intern), which was resolved at the end of all proceedings with no convictions for his client. One year later as a newly licensed attorney, his first jury trial resolved with a 30-minute not guilty verdict. He has continued to aggressively and effectively fight for his clients’ rights, ranging from the trial to appellate level. He has overturned convictions on appeal, won many jury trials and criminal motions at the trial level, and helped individuals in administrative proceedings regarding a variety of issues.. Ryan's career really began to take off once he began his own practice. His philosophy is take a relatively small and manageable caseload, and give every single client the individualized attention they deserve and pay for. Currently, Ryan focuses his practice areas in criminal appeals, criminal defense, and personal injury.

My role is to put my client in the best possible situation, and utilize my knowledge, experience and expertise to help my client reach the optimum resolution for whatever issue or problem my client is facing. Those resolutions are client specific, and wholly dependent on the goals of each individual client.

My commitment in my practice is making my clients the focus of my representation.  I return phone calls.  I don't let emails sit for days or weeks before acknowledging them.  I treat others the way I would like to be treated.  My overhead is low, and I pass my smart financial decisions onto my clients.. These may seem like obvious practice standards to abide by, but they are far too often ignored in the legal profession.  Trust between a client and his or her attorney is crucial to a succesful case and professional relationship, and the way I operate my practice is focused on developing this trust.  It's easy to say that I'm a dedicated, compassionate, and zealous advocate for my clients; my goal is to demonstrate these words by my actions, both in and out of the courtroom.

I practice in Thurston County, Mason County, Lewis County, and Gray's Harbor County and am licensed in both state and federal courts. I pride myself on working hard for my clients and obtaining the best possible results for every case. Give me a call at.

I am a criminal defense attorney from Seattle that primarily works in Olympia. I became a criminal defense attorney because I love helping people and feel that too often the scales of justice are tipped in the favor of the State and that jail is often times not the answer. People deserve someone that passionatly advocates for their cause and I feel honored to be able to do that for a living.

Hearings Examiner. Washington State, Department of Licenseing (2023). Trial attorney admitted to practice in Washington and Texas as well as the following federal courts: United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington.. Admitted to Practice:U.S.D.C. EDW (2008)U.S.D.C. WDW (2006)State of Texas (2005)State of Washington (2002)

G. Saxon (Sax) Rodgers is a founding member of Budd Bay Law, P.S., where he practices in the areas of personal injury, criminal defense, real estate, and administrative law in Olympia and surrounding Washington counties.. Mr. Rodgers was named a Super Lawyer by Washington Law & Politics in 2000 and 2007. He was also listed in the Who’s Who National Registry in 2002. He is peer review rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Rodgers is also former chairman of the Assigned Counsel Group for the Office of Assigned Counsel, which provides criminal defense services for indigent persons in the District, Juvenile and Superior Courts.

From 1995 until 2002, Lenny served as an Assistant Public Defender for the Broward County (Florida) Public Defenders Office representing clients in criminal cases. Lenny has served as lead counsel representing both juveniles and adults charged with felonies and misdemeanors and has participated in more than 100 judge and jury trials. Lenny has served as a Guardian ad Litem and Juvenile Mediator, ensuring that the rights of children in dependency and criminal matters were protected. Lenny also serves as a Judge Pro-Tempore in Thurston County District Court and presides over civil and criminal matters.. Lenny is currently the Secretary of the Thurston County Bar Association Board of Directors and is a member of the Ukrainian American Bar Association, and the Family Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association. Lenny has been named a "Rising Star" lawyer by Washington Law & Politics in 2005 and 2006 and has received recognition from the Washington Satate Bar Association for his pro-bono work in the community every year since 2007.

Chuck Szurszewski has been practicing family law in the Olympia area since 1978. His experience includes managing the Olympia Division of Child Support and heading up the Thurston County Prosecutor's Office Child Support Section. Chuck has been with our firm since 1987, representing individuals in dissolution, modification, custody and child support cases. He is an experienced mediator as well as a litigator. He has served as a court-appointed guardian ad litem in over 200 cases. He has been a member of the Family Law Executive Committee for ten years and was the chair in 2014. He served  on the governor's task force on child support.   He has the highest rating on Martindale Hubbell and AVVO. He has been a presenter at continuing educations every year for the last ten years. He has been designated as a SuperLawyer for multiple years and served for many years  as a pro tem judge/commisioneer  in Thurston County.

Christopher Taylor is the founder and owner of CR Taylor Law, P.S. Mr. Taylor has been in private practice for over 18 years. Mr. Taylor regularly represents individuals on a retained basis on criminal matters in Thurston County, Lewis County, Mason County, and Grays Harbor County on a range of offenses, including DUI, theft, assault, domestic violence offenses, drug offenses, burglary, trafficking in stolen property, arson, and murder. Mr. Taylor has been lead counsel on well over 100 jury trials and hundreds of substantive motions, and has the experience and professional reputation to vigorously pursue his clients' goals.. Mr. Taylor also has current contracts with Thurston County Public Defense and Grays Harbor County Public Defense as a conflict panel attorney, representing individuals accused of felonies, as well as representing appellants convicted in courts of limited jurisdiction, who are unable to be represented by the County office due to ethical conflicts. He also represents individuals seeking relief based upon the Washington Supreme Court's Blake decision in Lewis County on contract with the Washington State Office of Public Defense. Mr. Taylor is an active member of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (WACDL), Washington Defender Association (WDA), Washington Coalition for Open Government (WashCOG), and the Thurston County Bar Association (TCBA). Mr. Taylor also serves as the private criminal defense bar representative to the bi-weekly Thurston County Superior Court Criminal Administration Meeting. Mr. Taylor is also the co-chair of the WACDL Rules Committee.

Charged with a crime? Got a traffic infraction? Need firearm rights restoration? - BETTER GET BRET!. ****Aggressive Criminal Defense****    ****Traffic Infractions****    ****Firearms Rights Restoration****. As a law student at Seattle University, I spent a year and a half providing public defense work in the King County court system. I worked in every aspect of District Court - from the jail to the jury. The diversity of my court assignments showed me a multitude of different defendants and case facts. I was able to learn the trade from some of the absolute best in the criminal defense business. Since passing the bar, I have continued on with my commitment to indigent defense, working first as a a public defender in Mason County, and then with the City of Olympia. My fee structure allows me to help people of different socioeconomic backgrounds; defending those who would otherwise be without representation.. In 2016, I started my own practice, Eloquence Law, PLLC, and it grew rapidly. I have worked in courts spanning the Western half of Washington. I actively seek firearm rights restoration for clients that have lost those rights in the past, as well as clearing records, by way of vacating felonies and misdemeanors. I have also contested and won countless traffic infractions, but the vast majority of my time is spent in criminal defense. I fully believe in zealous representation and advocacy for my clients in all cases: public or private; paid or unpaid. I believe in the idea of justice, and work daily towards reaching it for my clients.

Attorney Bio. Mr. Woodrow graduated from UC Berkeley and attended graduate school at UC San Diego. After working as a teacher for a couple of years he entered law school at UCLA.. Mr. Woodrow’s first job as an attorney was as a prosecutor in Grays Harbor County. After a year at the “Harbor” he was hired at Kitsap County as a prosecutor. After five or six years at Kitsap, Mr. Woodrow opened his practice in Tacoma and gradually after three or four years he moved his practice to Olympia.. Mr. Woodrow has defending numerous persons charged with murder, rape, child molestation, drug crimes, assaults and a variety of other charges. As one of the most aggressive and successful litigators in Thurston County Mr. Woodrow has established himself as one of the premier attorneys in Western Washington.

Andrew Y. Yi was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. He grew up in south Tacoma and attended Visitation Primary School and Bellarmine High School. Andrew’s primary areas of practice include criminal defense and plaintiff’s personal injury law.. Andrew attended New York University and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and mathematics with high honors. During his time at NYU, Andrew was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and received numerous awards for scholastic excellence including the NYU Honors Scholars Award and the NYU Founders Day Award (awarded to undergraduates who graduate in the top ten percent of their class). Andrew also served as an intern for U.S. Senator Patty Murray as an undergraduate.. Andrew attended law school at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee on a merit scholarship. During his time at Vanderbilt, Andrew was inducted into Phi Delta Phi, an international legal honors fraternity with an emphasis in promoting legal ethics. Andrew worked at various legal internships including serving as a research assistant for several Vanderbilt law school professors, in the general counsel’s office for a large publicly traded company, for several law firms, and as a law clerk for the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II. Andrew’s internships exposed him to a variety of areas of law, both civil and criminal, and allowed him to learn the intricacies of both trial and appellate litigation.. After graduating from law school, Andrew was admitted to the Washington State Bar, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following his admission to the bar, Andrew worked as a deputy prosecutor for the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office.. Andrew is a member of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Washington Defender’s Association, the Honorable Robert J. Bryan Inn of Court, and the Washington Association for Justice. In his spare time, Andrew serves as a member of the board of directors for A Step Ahead in Pierce County, a non-profit organization serving the needs of developmentally disabled children.. Andrew speaks fluent Korean and is available for consultations in Korean.