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Denice Gagner is a criminal defense attorney who works in the Seattle area. Her practice focuses primarily on DUI and domestic violence cases, including protection order petitions.. Ms. Gagner’s experience on both sides of the criminal courtroom provides her with unique insight when it comes to defending her clients in a criminal case.

Denelle’s practice includes estate planning, trusts, and probate. As a graduate of the University of Washington and Seattle University, she particularly enjoys helping Puget Sound-area families plan for their future.. After law school, Denelle provided legal counsel to bioethicists and global health researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. This included legal and contract support for HIV vaccine trials across Africa. She applies these experiences with complex contract drafting and negotiations to her estate planning practice, ensuring quality while also taking time to explain the options for each client’s individual needs. Clients appreciate her warmth, intelligence, and attention to detail.

Dedicated. Prepared. Accessible. Compassionate.. I believe there is a solution to every problem and that people should not be defined by their worst moments. Humans are resilient and with the right advocacy, anything can be accomplished. Working with me and my team you will know you got the best result possible and will never be in the dark about the status of your case. Our practice is results oriented and focused on client communication. We provide non-judgmental and efficient representation with an emphasis on achieving client goals. My practice focuses on complex family law including cases involving tech workers, professionals, business owners, and those with closely held businesses. I also spend signficant time working with clients in cases involving domestic violence and on prenuptial, postnuptial, and cohabitation agreements. As a former criminal trial lawyer, my experience representing clients in both criminal and family law gives me a unique perspective that is advantageous when there are charges pending, protection orders in place or being sought, and/or a family law case happening simultaneously. I understand how to best protect your interests in all of these arenas. My team will work with you to make sure you know what decisions to make at every juncture to achieve the best possible outcome for you, your family, and your future. Whether you are negotiatinga resolution, in mediation, or litigating, family law is stressful. I aim to act as a buffer between you and that stress. Listen, court can be stressful for clients. I make sure all of my clients know what to expect and if we are litigating, go in to court prepared and with the security of experience on their side. Careful and well-informed negotiation is critical to securing successful resolutions. We offer the flexibility of experience to litigate aggressively on your behalf when needed or reach solutions borne of a more collaborative approach, dependent upon your needs. If you have a problem, we can help you find your solution so please reach out.. Prior to starting Dellino Law Group, I worked for a large public defender office and other law firms in the greater Seattle area gaining extensive experience defending criminal charges and handling family law matters. Prior to private practice, I srved as a judicial staff attorney in Washington State Superior Court for Kitsap County. As an attorney providing support to four busy trial court judges, I analyzed legal motions in all areas of law, especially in cases involving complex issues, and recommended how a judge should rule on the motion. My work at the Court helped me understand how judges respond to arguments made by attorneys. This makes me an extremely effective advocate in the courtroom. When not working, I stay active in the community through my volunteer work with the King Co. Bar Association Neighborhood Legal Clinic program and various animal rescues. I also enjoy spending time with family and friends, my four dogs (yes, I said four), getting outdoors, travel, and New York Yankee baseball. I abhor apathy.

Dedicated to the public interest.

Dedicated to serving the public interest providing effective legal services with integrity.

Dedicated to providing aggressive but reasonable representation at a fair price and cost-effective resolution to even complex legal problems.

Deborah Nelson is  a  Past President of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. She has been honored by her peers receiving the "Super Lawyer" designation from Washington Law & Politics each year since 2003. Deborah's professionalism and passion for her clients are hallmarks of her law practice. She focuses her plaintiff's personal injury practice on brain injury cases, catastrophic personal injury, and insurance coverage and insurance bad faith litigation.

Deborah K. Flynn is the Founder and President of FLYNN LAW GROUP, LLC.  For her entire 23-year career, she has represented Washington Self-Insured Employers in workers' compensation matters.  She is a litigation specialist, successfully serving a diverse client base representative of employers from industries including aerospace, airlines, retail, grocery, hospitals, school districts, cities, food production, manufacturing, shipping, and logging/forest products manufacturing, to name a few. She helps clients to assess and reduce case exposures and achieve cost effective resolutions where possible. In litigation, she is an aggressive advocate for her clients.. Prior to founding FLYNN LAW GROUP, LLC, Ms. Flynn was a founding partner in another law firm engaged in the same practice for 18-years.  She received her JD degree from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN and her BA degree from the University of Montana in Missoula. Go Griz!

DEBORAH ALEXANDER. ATTORNEY. Experience:. Firm founder, Deborah Alexander, is a criminal defense attorney practicing in the Seattle and Bellevue metropolitan areas.    Her practice includes felony criminal defense, misdemeanor criminal defense, juvenile criminal defense, white collar criminal defense, and commercial litigation.  She was previously an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Criminal Division in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.  During her time as a Prosecutor, Ms. Alexander became knowledgeable in evaluating the prosecutions case, both strengths and weaknesses.  This means that she has first-hand insight into how the other side approaches the serious cases that she handles.  This experience and perspective from both sides has allowed her to aggressively defend her clients.  Her experience in criminal law includes jury trials, bench trials, motion practice, and appellate oral arguments and briefing. Ms. Alexander is also acting in an “of counsel” capacity to the criminal defense firm of Wolfe, Wrenn & Zariski.. Ms. Alexander received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in Legal Studies and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.  She also worked for the Honorable Harry Leinenweber, United States District court for the Northern District of Illinois.  Her bar memberships and admissions include the Washington State Bar Association, Illinois State Bar, King county Bar Association, Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 1987); DePaul University College of Law (J.D., 1991). Ms. Alexander also worked for the Honorable Harry Leinenweber, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.. Bar Memberships and Admissions: Washington and Illinois. Affiliations:Washington State Bar Association, King County Bar Association, Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member of Seattle Executives Association, Network attorney for ARAG and Microsoft ARAG plan members.

Deanna practices municipal finance and general municipal law. Her experience includes serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel on financing matters for a variety of public entities, including cities, public utility districts, ports, fire protection districts, transit agencies, public development authorities, public facilities districts, school districts, industrial development corporations, and state agencies. Financing structures include revenue bonds, general obligation bonds, lease financings, assessment financings, short-term obligations, industrial development bonds and other private-activity bonds. She also serves as outside counsel to public entities on general municipal matters, advising clients on open public meetings, public records and disclosure matters, and other municipal law issues. Deanna also has extensive experience with Washington legislation and federal and state securities law. She is a frequent speaker and author on state and federal municipal finance issues and developments in local law.

Dealing with a severe physical injury or the wrongful death of a family member can threaten one's independence and livelihood. We have been there before and can help bring clarity to a chaotic and confusing situation. We can tell you what your legal options are, and help you make the difficult decisions which may affect you and your family for a lifetime. Take care, Bob Dawson

David’s primary practice areas are employment law and business litigation.  He is dedicated to representing employees in cases involving sexual harassment, discrimination (based on race, gender, pregnancy, age, disability, religion, and national origin), retaliation, severance negotiations, non-compete agreements, and other employment issues.  He also represents business clients in a broad range of matters including breach of contract, fraud, partnership/LLC member disputes, director and officer liability, real estate, and construction disputes.

David’s practice encompasses the entirety of the business and real estate life cycles.. In his real estate practice, David represents national and regional clients, including REITs, developers, landlords and tenants, in the acquisition, disposition, management and leasing of commercial real estate.  His work covers office, warehouse, industrial, retail, medical office, multifamily and mixed-use properties.  David’s work includes all aspects of real estate transactions, including negotiations, purchase and sale agreements, title review, due diligence, managing closings and financing documents.  Additionally, his clients include major landlords and tenants, for whom he drafts and negotiates leases, amendments, subordination agreements and related documents.. In his corporate practice, David assists clients with entity formation, operations, transactions, management, and mergers, acquisitions and dispositions.  He also works with clients engaged in energy procurement contracts, private securities placements, institutional lending, privacy and terms of use agreements, and closely held business planning.

David's personal interests include endurance triathlon, cycling and running. He has competed in a dozen Ironman series events, and over twenty five ultra marathons, marathons and half marathons including Boston. In 2009 he founded to raise funds for children's cancer care. A native of Tacoma, David relocated to Seattle in 2004 after beginning his legal career in Los Angeles.

David Sulzbacher provides on-demand research, writing, and other back office litigation services to assist attorneys throughout the country, with an emphasis on criminal defense and plaintiffs-side litigation. Attorneys who value thorough research and well-written briefs can more efficiently and effectively represent their clients by confidently outsourcing briefs and other tasks to David, while focusing their own time and attention on other aspects of their cases.. Since graduating from American University, Washington College of Law, cum laude, David has acquired a wide range of litigation experience working as a law clerk for the Honorable Daniel A. Boucher, as a public defender, and as a litigation associate at Christensen Fulton & Filz, PLLC. During law school, he worked for the Honorable Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, took summer associate positions at Keller Rohrback, LLP, in Seattle, WA, and Tilleke & Gibbons in Bangkok, Thailand, and interned at the American Bar Association.

David started his career as a civil defense attorney in New York City representing propery owners, construction contractors, telecom companies, hotel groups, and commercial lines in state and federal courts. After returning to his hometown of Seattle in 2014, he began representing individuals in personal injury matters involving general negligence, medical malpractice, and motor vehicle accidents. David is currently a principal attorney with the law firm of Reed McClure, where he defends tort claims and insurance disputes involving general negligence, motor vehicle and trucking accidents, timber trespass, condominium associations, and claims of bad faith. He remains a zealous advocate for both the plaintiff and defense.

David primarily represents victims of corporate negligence, policyholders, and those with serious injuries, including traumatic brain injuries ("TBI"). David has jury trial experience in state, federal, and municipal courts. Recently, David has obtained substantial plaintiff verdicts alongside partners Rick and Ken Friedman in the Western District of Washington. David also occasionally tries criminal cases, and obtained two defense verdicts in 2015 for wrongfully accused citizens. At the appellate level, David has briefed a number of cases before Washington Division I and Division II court of appeal commissioners, and authored (uncredited) the prevailing briefs in the Wyoming Supreme Court case Irene v. Seneca, et. al., 337 p.3d 483 (Wyo. 2014).. David grew up in Alaska and graduated from West Anchorage High School in 1997. After high school, he spent one year as a Rotary International Exchange Student in Rostock, Germany. Upon returning to the U.S., David studied at the Ohio State University and graduated in 2002 with a B.S. in International Business and a B.A. in German Language and Literature. David then spent roughly two years in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, at the Centro ISI English Academy through the AIESEC program teaching English to adults and children.. Before starting a career in the law, David worked for three years as a Licensed Customs Broker and Ocean Import Manager for a global logistics/freight-forwarder and NVOCC in Chicago, IL.. David Roosa joined Friedman | Rubin in 2012 as the firm's first "Moe Levine Fellow of Trial Advocacy." The award honors one of the greatest trial lawyers of the 20th Century and is given to interns showing great promise as future trial lawyers.. David lives with his wife and two sons in West Seattle. His hobbies include competitive running and swimming, outdoor grilling, watching Ohio State football games in the fall, and playing the guitar – poorly.. Experience and Organizational Membership

David Norman graduated magna cum laude from Seattle University School of Law in May of 2008, graduating within the top 5% of his class. He became a licensed attorney in Washington in October of the same year.  He served as a Research and Technical Editor on the school's Law Review journal and was on the Dean's list from 2006-08.  He also served as an extern in 2008 for the Honorable Judge Marsha Pechman, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.. Beginning in September of 2008, David worked at Allied Law Group, LLC, a unique firm that focuses primarily on cases that involve enforcing statutory and constitutional open government and court provisions.  Through David's work at Allied, he had the opportunity to write briefs in multiple appellate cases, including several at the Supreme Court level.  While working at Allied, David had also been given the opportunity to author or co-author several CLE presentations, as well as serve as the co-editor and co-author of the WSBA's Public Records Act Deskook Supplement edition.. David joined Lee Smart P.S., Inc. as an associate attorney in November of 2010.  Lee Smart is a Seattle-based law firm that focuses primarily in the area of civil defense, and is ranked by U.S. News and World Report as a top-tier law firm in a multitude of practice areas.  At Lee Smart, David was able to continue working at the appellate level, authoring multiple briefs and motions.  His primary area of practice was medical malpractice defense.. David joined Bennett Bigelow and Leedom, P.S. as a senior associate attorney in April of 2014.   Bennett Bigelow and Leedom is a Seattle-based law ranked by U.S. News and World Report as a Best Law Firm in a multitude of practice areas.  David's work at BBL focuses on medical malpractice litigation, related healthcare issues, and product liability actions.. David was selected as a "Rising Star" by Thomson Reuters's Superlawyer magazine in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.  He was selected as a "SuperLawyer" in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.. David is licensed to practice in Washington, the Western and Eastern District Courts of Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals at the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.. David's personal interests include reading, television, photography, and especially music.  On any given weekend, David can usually be found at various musical venues near his residence on Capitol Hill in Seattle.

David Kerr is dedicated to serving as a trusted counselor to his clients and to providing effective, creative, client focused legal services to start-ups, freelancers, creative endeavors, entrepreneurs and risk takers.

David Jacobson is a Partner in Dorsey's Trial, Regulatory and Technology group and a member of the Seattle Trial practice. He has concentrated his practice on a broad range of complex civil cases in state and federal court, with an emphasis on securities, class actions, unfair and anti-competitive business practices, energy, real estate and tax litigation. Mr. Jacobson advises and represents national and international clients in trials, appeals and administrative proceedings.

David is the Chair of the firm's Business Group. His practice focuses on all aspects of legal counseling for businesses including business planning, formation of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, mergers and acquisitions, and the negotiation and drafting of commercial agreements. He has extensive experience in dealing with real estate matters including financings, purchases, sales, exchanges, leasing, and structuring of entities for ownership and development of real property projects. For many years he represented clients in the solid waste industry in connection with planning for the ownership, development, acquisition, and sale of solid waste facilities such as landfills, transfer stations, composting and recycling centers, and hauling operations, purchases and sales of solid waste companies, and transactions involving contaminated property. David began his career as a tax attorney and continues to provide transactional tax planning advice to businesses and individuals and assistance with estate planning and probate matters.. Representative Matters

David focuses his practice primarily on environmental litigation, water rights, and regulatory defense. He represents clients in cost recovery actions under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), in land use appeals, and in construction defect claims.. David brings a wealth of experience from his previous position as an assistant attorney general in the Ecology Division of the Washington Attorney General’s Office (Ecology) where he advised clients on complex environmental and natural resource issues, and litigated a variety of matters before the Pollution Control Hearings Board, including water quality penalties, conditional no exposure certifications, and water right relinquishment orders. David has handled cases through all phases of litigation from taking expert depositions to arguing before the state court of appeals. David also has significant experience with the energy facilities site locations act and the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA).. David honed his legal writing during law school as a judicial extern for Judge Stephen Dwyer on Division I of the Washington Court of Appeals. David also volunteered for the Thurston County Bar Association’s Housing Justice Project, where he helped tenants facing imminent eviction.

David concentrates his practice on litigating, resolving disputes, and counseling startups involving intellectual property, technology, construction and engineering, professional liability, financial institutions, and corporate and partnership duties. He has a Yellow Belt certification in Legal Lean Sigma® and Project Management.

David Beninger  has successfully handled a number of complex and high profile cases. He has achieved over 70 verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million, including the largest results in the state for wrongful death, nursing home negligence, post-concussive syndrome and three of the four largest insurance bad faith outcomes in Washington.

Dave Eckberg maintains a broad legal practice that includes all aspects of business and corporate law, construction law, real estate, public and private contracting, design professional liability, intellectual property, legal issues associated with cannabis based products and businesses, employment law and environmental law.  He is particularly well versed in dealing with complex and difficult transactions and knows when to aggressively advocate for his client’s position and when to work towards “win-win” solutions.  His clients primarily include engineers, architects, contractors, environmental consultants, physicians, dentists, veterinarians, developers and high tech businesses.. Dave formerly served as the general counsel of a large engineering company and later became a shareholder with Skellenger Bender in Seattle, where he served as president of the firm before he joined Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara in 2013. He has been practicing law since 1986 and worked as a civil engineer before attending law school.. Dave earned his Juris Doctorate from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, cum laude, in 1986. He earned his M.S. in Civil Engineering in 1983 from Colorado State University, and his B.S. in Engineering with honors, in 1980 from the University of Colorado. He is licensed to practice in the federal and state courts of Washington and Colorado and has also been admitted to the U.S. Tax Court.. He is a member of the King County, Colorado, Washington and American Bar Associations. He is an active affiliate member with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), and the Northwest Environmental Business Council (NEBC). Dave has been a speaker at numerous seminars and webcasts and has written hundreds of articles on a variety of topics relating to business, real estate and risk management.. Dave currently serves on the executive committee and board of Design in Public, a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity, and on the Oversight Committee of the Well, a non-profit entity formed to develop a community center in south Snohomish county.  He also serves on the executive committee of the Business Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association.. He maintains a busy legal practice, but always finds time to spend with his family and to pursue his passion for fly fishing, particularly northwest steelhead, skiing, backpacking, biking and golf.