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Kristin is a compassionate, skilled attorney who sets herself apart by providing her clients with excellent communication, transparency and quick response time. Adept at fighting for her client’s best interests, Kristin has a “work together” attitude to meet their needs and expectations.. From established technology companies, to nursing home organizations, to emerging start-ups, Kristin enjoys working with businesses in a variety of industries. She focuses her varied litigation practice in the following areas:. HEALTHCARE. Having defended healthcare clients in litigation, regulation and employment issues, Kristin counsels her healthcare clients on how they can best protect themselves from the complexities of regulation in the industry. Her long-term care, skilled nursing and assisted living facility, medical device and surgery center clients seek her advice about minimum wage, unionization and other employment issues, medical malpractice claims, and regulatory charges. Kristin’s understanding of her client’s business, combined with her knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework every provider must navigate, enables her to provide clarity in the midst of an ever changing healthcare world.. EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS, BENEFITS & LABOR. All employers must deal with the evolving web of federal and state employment laws. In addition to representing employers in state and federal court, Kristin defends clients in investigations by the EEOC, Department of Labor, and other state and local agencies. Kristin also works with companies on a wide array of employment matters, including hiring and termination, healthcare, wage and hour, discrimination and harassment, and retaliation. She assists clients in drafting employment agreements, severance packages, employee handbooks, employment policies and developing strategies for avoiding problems resulting in litigation.. FINANCIAL SERVICES AND SECURITIES REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT DEFENSE. Kristin represents investors, financial planners, wealth managers and other professionals in the financial services industry with various claims, including class actions, regulatory proceedings and customer claims. She also defends registered investment advisors, investment advisor representatives, investment bankers, broker-dealers and registered representatives in regulatory investigations and disciplinary actions brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA and the State of Washington Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) Securities Division.. TRUST AND ESTATE LITIGATION. Kristin is a trusted advisor to family members, trustees and personal representatives in disputes ranging from Will contests to interpretations of trust provisions. Her experience includes representing charities to ensure appropriate distribution under a Will, challenges to a Trustee’s withholding of information and inaction, challenging a Will because of undue influence and cases alleging breach of fiduciary duty against a trustee and personal representative.

Kristen Fisher is a litigator whose practice focuses on difficult estate, trust and probate matters.

Kathryn Boling represents insurers on coverage and bad faith matters, primarily litigated matters.  Although she focuses primarily on disputes arising under personal lines, she has experience handling disputes arising out of all types of property and casualty insurance, including commercial liability, personal automobile, homeowner, professional liability, and D&O coverages. She has developed an interest in cyber coverage issues, both under traditional policies and emerging “cyber” insurance policies. Under each coverage, Kathryn has defended claims seeking damages under the full range of Washington law, which includes common law bad faith, negligence, the Consumer Protection Act, and the Insurance Fair Conduct Act (“IFCA”).  She also handles contribution matters between insurers. She has gained particular experience in disputes over the scope of discovery in insurance bad faith matters. For all this work, Kathryn has been recognized as a “Rising Star” in Super Lawyers magazine in 2014, 2015, and 2016, and also as a “Top Female Attorney in Washington Rising Star” in Seattle Met Magazine in 2014, 2015, and 2016.. Kathryn also has significant appellate interest and experience, having handled appellate matters in a variety of subject areas, including immigration, tort, insurance, and civil procedure. Before practicing, she clerked for Judge David Armstrong at Division II of the Washington Court of Appeals for two years. Before that, Kathryn successfully briefed and argued her first appeal, an immigration asylum case before the Ninth Circuit, during an internship with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. Also during law school, Kathryn competed at a high level in appellate competitions, where she was recognized for her oral and writing advocacy skills up to the national level. She now serves on the King County Bar Association (KCBA) Amicus Committee, which submits amicus briefs to the Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal on matters affecting the legal profession and access to justice. She is also an active member of KCBA Appellate section.. Before joining Betts Patterson Mines, Kathryn spent almost four years at the Civil Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, where she specialized in defending complex environmental contamination cases filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Juli Farris’ clients count on her commitment to excellence and high quality work to meet their legal needs. Juli is a member of Keller Rohrback’s nationally-recognized Complex Litigation Group and serves as Supervising Partner of the firm’s Santa Barbara office. She has more than 25 years of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in litigation involving banking and securities regulation, antitrust, ERISA fraud and other areas. She has also represented officers and directors of active and failed financial institutions in investigations and litigation regarding bank regulatory matters.. Her recent and pending cases involve environmental litigation, whistleblower litigation and consumer protection matters, including appointment as co-lead counsel representing victims of the 2015 Refugio California Oil Spill and representation of patients affected by prescription drug overcharges. She is also part of the team investigating claims to hold drug manufacturers accountable for the current opioid health crisis.. Before joining Keller Rohrback in 1991, Juli served as a judicial law clerk for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, and she practiced law at the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley Austin, where her practice involved litigation covering a wide array of subject matters.. Juli divides her time between the firm’s Seattle and Santa Barbara offices.

Josh represents clients in business and intellectual property disputes, from pre-litigation advising through trial and appeal. His work ranges from complex lawsuits between multi-national companies to managing rock stars’ intellectual property portfolios. Josh brings the same goal-oriented advocacy to family-owned businesses and individuals.. Josh regularly handles lawsuits involving claims of trademark and copyright infringement, as well as trade secret misappropriation. He also regularly represents clients in contested matters in front of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.. Josh’s business and commercial litigation practice ranges from shareholder disputes to allegations of embezzlement and fraud against officers and employees. Frequently, his business and intellectual property practices blend in commercial licensing disputes and allegations of trade secret theft.. Born in Seattle, Josh has experience in Washington’s state and federal courts. He also regularly appears for clients in courts across the country.

Jonah's practice focuses on employment litigation and business litigation.

Jim specializes in the trial and creative resolution of substantial disputes for a diverse client base, including Fortune 500 companies and major e-commerce firms.  While much of his practice has focused on intellectual property, corporate, and commercial matters, Jim believes that knowing how to win a case – developing and executing a strategy to position a case for a win by motion if possible and by trial if not – is the most important skill of a lawyer handling complex litigation.. Jim teamed with David Bruce to establish Savitt Bruce & Willey LLP in 1999, after a nine-year tenure as a partner at Perkins Coie.  Jim began his career with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City before finding his way to the Great Northwest.  He is a graduate, magna cum laude, of the Georgetown University Law Center.. Outside of the office, Jim recently completed service as the Chairperson of the Pike Place Market Preservation & Development Authority (which owns and operates Seattle’s famed Pike Place Market) and is a past President of the Federal Bar Association of the Western District of Washington.

Jeffrey M. Dore is an attorney at Betts, Patterson, & Mines, P.S. who focuses his practice on complex civil litigation. Before joining Betts, Patterson, & Mines, Jeff defended clients ranging from taxi-cab drivers and trucking companies in personal injury matters to general contractors, subcontractors, and homeowners’ association board members in construction defect disputes.

Jeff was born and raised in Garland, TX and has been around the world twenty times without losing his Texas roots. At age 22, he joined the Army and was stationed at Ft. Stewart, GA where he served as a combat medic in the 3rd Infantry Division. Later, he obtained his first law degree from the University of South Africa and bought a house with his beautiful wife Nicole. Today, he lives on Mercer Island with his family. He is fanatical about the game of chess and loves Shakespeare, the Simpsons, and Linux.

Janissa practices complex civil litigation, including securities, minority shareholder oppression, shareholder derivative, class action, and commercial litigation. She has litigated matters involving complex financial instruments including structured products, principal protected notes, and derivatives, such as interest rate swaps. Janissa has significant trial experience with commercial cases involving claims of fraud, securities fraud, professional malpractice, consumer protection violations, and breach of contract.. Janissa's practice also includes trust, estate, and fiduciary duty litigation in which she has represented charitable and individual beneficiaries and individual fiduciaries. She has also litigated property damage and hazardous waste issues in cases involving contaminated sites, including the ASARCO Tacoma Smelter and the Tacoma Landfill Superfund sites, and has obtained favorable settlements for plaintiffs exposed to uncontrolled asbestos releases.. Janissa is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has received an "AV" Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating for demonstrating the highest level of legal skill and integrity.. Before entering private practice, Janissa was a law clerk to the Honorable Eugene A. Wright, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and a television news reporter and anchor.

Jaime Drozd Allen’s practice focuses on a variety of complex commercial litigation, with a focus on consumer class actions (with a particular focus on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and state law counterparts), business disputes (including partnership and post-sale disputes), healthcare litigation, product liability, and breaches of contract. She has been selected as a “Rising Star” by Thomson Reuters for each year since 2009

Irene Hecht is an experienced trial lawyer whose practice emphasizes insurance law, particularly in coverage and bad faith litigation. She also has an active appellate practice and has represented insurance companies in trial courts, the Court of Appeals, and before the Washington State Supreme Court. Ms. Hecht has over 30 years of experience in coverage analysis and representation, including both commercial and personal lines, umbrella and excess coverage, and first- and third-party coverage. She has dealt with a wide variety of coverage issues including: advertising injury, personal injury, construction defect, automobile, underinsured motorist, personal injury protection, homeowner’s, products-completed operations, E&O, and D&O. Ms. Hecht also actively advises and defends insurers in bad faith litigation, with respect to both first- and third-party matters.

I specialize in toxic torts, asbestos, and professional malpractice disputes.  I am also one of the few persons to have litigated Housing for Older Persons Act or "HOPA" disputes.  For a sample outline of the steps necessary to perfect compliance with the HOPA defense, please contact me at.. In addition, I have defended accountants, engineers, physicians, and orthodontists from malpractice claims. I currently defend two major automotive manufacturers from ongoing asbestos related disputes.  I have represented property owners and homeowners associations in a wide range of real estate matters, from litigation to compliance.

I ski, read, and play with my wonderful family.  I live in the Pacific Northwest because it is beautiful here, and I take spammers and hackers down for clients like Facebook, provide data privacy and security advice, and have recently become engaged in the world of virtual currency, bitcoin, and FinTech.  I may be a geek, but I love practicing law.. I Counsel in the Litigation group and a member of the firm's Privacy & Security subgroup. My litigation work currently focuses on combating cybercrime, enforcing website terms of use, and representing virtual currency clients before regulatory bodies like state Departments of Financial Institutions.  In addition to my litigation work, I counsel clients in areas related to privacy and data security, consumer protection law, Internet law, and financial services compliance. I manage a rapid response enforcement team to vigorously defend firm clients, such as Facebook, against illegal spamming, phishing, pretexting, and other forms of malicious Internet behavior.  Actions to prosecute individuals whose actions interfere with client Web sites or Internet activity often include extensive Internet forensic work, cease-and-desist actions, and formal litigation. I advise clients regarding state and federal privacy and data protection laws, including anti-spamming and anti-phishing statutes, state data protection statutes, and breach notification laws.  I also provide consumer protection compliance advice to companies regarding their obligations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and fair debt collections practices statutes. This practice focuses primarily on the protection and safeguarding of customer personal data. I counsel clients on a number of regulatory issues including CPNI compliance for wireless carriers, security breach notification advice and international advice regarding compliance with data protection laws abroad. I help clients understand and comply with international data transfer laws, particularly when they wish to transfer data across international boundaries in compliance with transnational regulations. I also advise clients regarding operation of Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower programs in the EU, and conducting U.S.-based litigation discovery in the EU.  I assist clients in joining the U.S. Department of Commerce's EU Safe Harbor certification program and counsel them with respect to compliance with European Union Directives on privacy, data protection, eCommerce and electronic communications services. I also provide advice to companies regarding compliance with United States sanctions programs (OFAC). I am deeply involved in the emerging virtual currency market, helping emerging clients understand the regulatory landscapes of state money transmission, federal anti-money laundering laws, and assisting them to take their start-up dreams to a compliant operational reality.  To do this, our team of virtual currency lawyers help clients develop payment flows, draft and implement anti-money laundering programs, privacy policies, terms of service and sale, and other consumer protections to satisfy regulatory requirmenets and to protect their customers.  We also defend them when state and federal regulators or law enforcement approach them with concerns about their business practices or substantive compliance with applicable law.  This space is changing at light speed, and we work hard to keep ourselves and our clients apace with all legal developments. Pro Bono work is central to my practice. I represent asylum-seekers at all levels of the immigration process.  I have also represented an inmate from the King County Regional Justice Center in a challenge to its medical treatment policies and procedures - and secured a very favorable settlement for him that will hopefully encourage the County to improve its policies and procedures.. For more information on my recent experience, please click here.

I have more than 30 years of experience advising, litigating and advocating on behalf of large, mid-range and small companies, including start-ups, as well as corporate executives and other individuals. I am committed to cost effective, results-driven advice and advocacy. I try and help my clients avoid and fix problems before they spin out of control and if they are in disputes, to manage those disputes to the best conclusion. In negotiation and litigation, my approach is to identify each client’s leverage and use it for maximum impact.. Practice Areas. ·       General Business Litigation and Advice. ·        Employment Litigation and Advice. ·        Injunctive Litigation including Non-Competition, Intellectual Property and Trade Secret Claims. ·        Business and Partnership Dissolutions. ·        Complex Tort Litigation. Personal. I grew up on the Connecticut coast in a small town called Madison. My mother gave me a lifelong love of mountains and skiing.  My father was a lawyer on Wall Street and I followed in his footsteps. In 1984, I moved to Seattle. Three National Parks within a day’s drive felt like paradise to me and still does.. I am lucky to be married to a great person and Ruth and I will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary in 2017. We have two grown kids, a son and daughter.. I have a commitment to hunger relief. My involvement with Food Lifeline has informed me on the complexity of poverty and economic insecurity and showed me that people of all political philosophies can come together for common good.. I love to hike and ski, both in the resorts and ski mountaineering.  Most of all, I love what I do. Helping people and businesses by practicing law, most recently for 17 years with my business partner Jeff, continues to be the most rewarding and fulfilling thing I do. I’d be honored to help you too.

I have extensive experience in litigating high-conflict disputes and delivering creative legal solutions. My clients rely on my focus on their specific business needs and goals to navigate all phases of litigation in federal and state courts, as well as in alternative dispute resolution proceedings. I also have a wealth of experience advising businesses on transactions, regulatory compliance, and commercial matters.. I started my career litigating complex commercial and intellectual property disputes at Los Angeles-based Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, before moving to Seattle and becoming managing partner at Montgomery Scarp & Chait, where my practice included defending transportation claims, catastrophic injury suits and employment claims, in addition to a wide variety of commercial litigation. I have worked with clients in an array of industries, from entertainment to railroads, high tech to retail, and love the process of learning the ins-and-outs of my clients’ businesses.

I have been happily married to Mary Stamper Lynam for 24 years and I am blessed with two great daughters, Kaeli and Natalie.  My interests and hobbies include golfing, coaching basketball, playing guitar, and other fun activities.  Two of my favorite authors are John Grisham and Carl Hiaasen.

I have always been an active and zealous advocate. As a member of the Moot Court board, I competed in the Boston area in Moot Court competitions. I explore all avenues for resolving issues but is not afraid to draw the hard line when necessary.. I was raised in a small town in New York, and obtained my bachelor’s degree in economics, at Keene State College a part of the University of New Hampshire system. I graduated Cum Laude from Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island, and am a member of the Washington State Bar Association.

I focus my practice on helping clients with a wide range of business and litigation matters.

I focus my practice in complex commercial litigation. I defend corporate clients in the areas of commercial and real estate transactions, insurance coverage and bad faith, and major personal injury matters. I represent petroleum industry clients against environmental and toxic tort claims. I regularly defend class actions, including employment and insurance related matters.

I am a Member in the Seattle office. I chaired the firm’s Litigation Department from 2000 to 2006 and chaired its Business Litigation Practice Group from 2006 to 2008. I served on the firm’s Board of Directors from 1991 – 2003, and chaired the firm's Environmental Practice Group from 1992 – 1996. My practice emphasizes civil disputes, litigation, real estate, and general business. I have handled a large number of commercial, real estate, eminent domain and product liability litigation matters. I was named by Seattle Magazine as one of Seattle’sTop Business Litigation Lawyers, 2003.

I am passionate about vigorously and ethically representing each and every client I have the privilege to work with and believe it is very important to give back to the community.  In that vein, I not only teach attorneys about specific areas of the legal landscape in the state of Washington (this year I was Chair of a full day seminar discussing advanced issues involving real estate and land use litigation and co-presented on two of the topics with Jack McCullough and Chris Brain and will alos present at a National Conference on e-discovery issues in October of 2014) but also am very active in the community in general.. For example, I am currently serving as a Trustee at my alma mater, Seattle Pacific University, am serving as the as Immediate Past Chairman of the County Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of King County (the third largest club of clubs in the United States) working with 25 county board members and over 200 local club board members, am serving on the Board of Governors of the Washington Athletic Club and am a nominated member of the Fellows of the Amercian Bar Association and The 101 Club.. With regard to my professional work as a commercial trial attorney, I have been named a Washington State SuperLawyer from 2003-2014, was listed as a Top Attorney in Washington by the SeattleMet magazine for Business Litigation in 2011, was listed as a Top Trial Attorney in Washington by the Seattle Magazine in 2012 and listed as a Top Rated Lawyer in Banking and Finance Law by Martindale Hubbell in 2013.

I am of counsel at the law firm of Frey Buck, P.S.  I have a widely varied general litigation practice, with emphasis on property/title disputes, defense of governmental agencies and officers for allegations of police misconduct and civil rights violations and in inquest proceedings following officer-involved fatalities. My practice also includes estate planning, probate administration and probate litigation.  I offer discounts to law enforcement officers and CLC members. I have served as a law school student mentor through the King County Washington Women Lawyers and have been a guest lecturer for Pretrial Advocacy at Seattle University School of Law. I developed a training program to assist officers in dealing with officer involved-fatalities and am a certified force analyst through the Force Science Institute, Ltd.I have 5 times been named a “Rising Star” by Washington Law & Politics and present on probate topics for continuing legal education.  I currently serve on the non-profit boards of REST - Real Escape from the Sex Trade and Waterfront Landings, Home Owner's Association. Prior to attending law school, I worked for seven years in the insurance industry, the majority as an insurance fraud investigator. I was very involved in the Puget Sound Special Investigators Association (P.S.S.I.) and obtained my Fraud Claims Law Specialist designation, eventually leading to law school. I was born and raised in Minnesota and migrated to the Pacific Northwest after graduating from the University of Minnesota-Duluth with a degree in Criminology.My passion is traveling as often as possible, with the goal of a new country every year. Although a novice, I love to photograph my travels. I previously served on my church advisory council and have been involved in women's and youth ministries, participating as a leader on missions to a Jamaican school for the deaf; to San Luis Potosi, Mexico with an inner-city ministry team; and Biloxi, Mississippi to assist with hurricane relief efforts.

I am an experienced trial lawyer and a partner at Susman Godfrey, one of the country's premier litigation firms. I have represented plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of cases in state and federal courts throughout the country, and have extensive experience in antitrust, patent and intellectual property, shareholder disputes involving founders and venture capitalists, class actions, and other complex business disputes. My clients have included individual patent owners and entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized technology companies caught up in disputes with much larger companies, and Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, pharmaceutical, retail and entertainment industries. I handle many cases on a contingent fee basis or under an alternative fee arrangement that makes sure that my firm is compensated based on results, and not purely time or effort. Please check out my web bio at my firm's web site and contact me if you'd like to discuss a potential case. Specialties Business litigation, patent and intellectual property disputes, antitrust, securities/shareholder litigation

I am an Associate in the Seattle office. My practice is focused on general litigation, commercial litigation, environmental law, insurance and Indian law & gaming.