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We  solve problems. As the lead attorney with my own office working on your behalf, I am committed to providing the highest quality legal services in the most cost-effective manner. I have experience in a broad range of legal areas and provide full legal services. We focus in a few select areas: Business, Employment, Real Estate, Personal Injury. There are many subcategories in these fields and I personally welcome your questions.

Vera P. Fomina focuses her practice on various employment matters, including disputes related to discrimination based on gender, pregnancy, family responsibilities, race, religion, and disability; harassment; wrongful discharge; retaliation; wages and executive compensation; employment contract disputes and unemployment.. Vera is experienced in counseling employers on various labor and employment issues, including Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, FLSA, USERRA, Washington Minimum Wage Act and the Washington Law Against Discrimination. Vera successfully assisted numerous business owners with the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and compensation structures, as well as with comprehensive Human Resources management training to executive, management, and Human Resources professionals. Vera also represented employers in federal and state court litigation, and before governmental agencies, such as the EEOC and DOL.. In 2014, Vera was one of the Board Members and served as a Legislative Representative of the Hill Country Human Resources Management Association and was named One of The Best of 2014 Employment Lawyers by the Scene in San Antonio magazine.

Rina Goodman, founder and principal of Transforming Conflict LLC,  has been providing mediation, conflict coaching, meeting facilitation, and training to couples, families, businesses, and organizations since 2004.. As a former trial lawyer, Rina understands the financial and personal impact litigation often has on parties. Today she is passionately committed to helping her clients achieve mutually satisfying solutions—even when the conflict appears to be intractable—without going to court.. Rina brings to her practice a background that distinguishes her from many other attorney mediators in Washington state. Prior to engaging in mediation practice, she immersed herself in mediation study and hands-on mediation experience. She received her initial mediation training at the highly-acclaimed Northern Virginia Mediation Service, which granted her certificates of completion in commercial and workplace mediation, and later participated in a one-and-a-half year mediation practicum with the Dispute Resolution Center of King County (King County DRC). In 2004, she was certified by the DRC to mediate civil and family disputes and to serve as a mentor mediator. In 2007, the DRC honored Rina by recognizing her as Mediator-of-the-Year.. Since establishing her ADR practice, Rina has earned a reputation as a tenacious mediator who blends compassion and understanding with a skillful ability to remain impartial. Throughout her professional career as a lawyer and mediator, she has been commended by employers, clients, associates, and judges for her professional knowledge and integrity. Her clients have praised her ability to instill confidence in what they can do for themselves and in her commitment to helping them find the best long-term solutions.. Rina chaired the ADR Section of the Washington State Bar Association from 2011-2012. She is currently a member of the ADR Subcommittee of the WSBA Task Force on Eliminating Court Costs in Litigation (ECCL) and the Legislative Committee of the WSBA’s ADR Section. She has served on the planning committee for the Annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference since 2008. She also serves as a volunteer mediator for the Seattle Federal Executive Board’s ADR Consortium and the King County DRC.. In 2007, Rina was certified as a Collaborative Divorce lawyer. She is pleased to announce that she now offers Collaborative Divorce as well as mediation services to her clients.

Richard J. Davies is a founding member of the Seattle law firm of Kraft Davies, PLLC. Practicing in federal and state courts since 1995, Rick has assisted his clients and their families in collecting millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts in complex personal injury cases in order to help them begin putting their lives back together after devastating injuries. His work has allowed injured persons the ability to transition into new careers after career-ending injuries, provided dignity after a loss, and allowed them to provide for their families when they cannot work due to the negligence of another. He has a track record for winning difficult personal injury cases against the denials of large corporations, fishing companies, insurance companies, and government agencies. Rick has been honored multiple times by Washington Law & Politics magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in the Washington legal community.. Rick limits his practice to serious personal injury and wrongful death claims for seamen, fishermen, tug boat workers, ferry workers, cruise ship passengers, maritime workers, construction workers, iron workers, victims of defective products, automobile and trucking collision victims, persons injured by the negligence of store employees, and victims of crimes.

Priorto opening The Filutowski Law Firm, PLLC, I worked forprominent Seattle litigation firms, representing seriously injuredindividuals against insurance companies.  I have brought justice to my clients through hundreds of negotiations, arbitrations, mediationsand trial.. A Seattle area native, I lecture on law at her alma mater, the University of Washington, and am an active member of the Puget Sound community.   I volunteer with the King County Bar Association Bilingual Spanish Legal Clinic, helping Spanish speakers access legal aid.  I am an active board member of the Washington State Association for Justice, King County Washington Women Lawyers Board and American Bar Association Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.. Following the 2002 Enron scandal, I helped pioneer thenation’s leading academic center on business ethics and corporategovernance as a Founding Fellow of The Center on Corporations, Law& Society at Seattle University School of Law.  I have worked onsome of the more prominent cases in the field including the Corrie v. Caterpillar case that alleged the aiding and abetting of human rights violations under the Alien Tort Claims Act.. In 2005, I studied alternative dispute resolution amongHarvard Business School faculty and European lawyers at the Universityof Rome in Rome, Italy, and assisted in the negotiation ofinternational sales contracts at General Electric Oil & Gas inFlorence, Italy.. I graduated with honors (Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa) from University of Washington,Seattle – Business School  (B.A., Business Administration), and I hold aJ.D. from Seattle University School of Law (where I excelled in Moot Court and was inducted into the National Order of the Barristers). I am admitted to practice in Washington State.

Pamela Grinter is chair of the firm's Corporate Transactions and Finance practice.  Her practice primarily focuses on business and tax law. Pamela represents private, public and nonprofit businesses throughout the region in the full range of business transactions – with an unusual depth of experience benefiting clients within the food and beverage industry.  She offers a customized approach to solving each client's unique problems. Pamela often serves her clients in the role of general counsel.  She especially enjoys the meaningful and productive relationships this role allows her to develop with company decision-makers – including executives, owners and board members.  In this role, she often works closely with her colleagues in the areas of employment, intellectual property protection and litigation. In particular, Pamela represents both buyers and sellers in all types of strategic relationships involving the purchase, sale or combination of businesses. In addition to food industry clients, she has represented many healthcare, aerospace and hospitality clients in this area. Pamela assists her business clients, of all sizes, throughout the full business life-cycle -- including choice of entity and entity formation (especially partnerships and limited liability companies), shareholder management, real estate transactions, distribution agreements, franchising arrangements, commercial agreements and business terminations. In her tax practice, Pamela assists clients - especially partnerships and limited liability companies - with a wide range of local, state, federal and international tax matters – including strategic tax planning. She assists a wide variety of tax-exempt organizations with their corporate, state and federal tax matters – including initial organization, federal tax exemptions and reorganizations. Putting this knowledge to work, she has served on the boards of a wide range of nonprofits.

Our commitment is to help our clients divorce respectfully and efficiently. We offer a divorce mediation process that keeps you focused on the tasks necessary to completing your divorce, and that allows you to create the necessary substantive agreements that best suit your interests and values. Our process is more cost effective than court because you control the process and stay focused on an outcome that works for you rather than one imposed by a court. We also offer mediation to develop parenting plans, dispute resolution, and arbitration on all family matters.

Other than practicing law, I enjoy snow skiing, golfing, working on my home, cheering on the W.S.U. Cougars and spending time with my family.  I am the proud father of two girls who were fortunate to inherit my wife's beautiful looks and her intelligence.

Nathan Paine has been with Van Kampen, Paine & Crowe for 8 years and is a member whose practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, intellectual property law and i-502 compliance and transactional matters.  Mr. Paine is an experienced commercial litigator having represented both individual and corporate clients in all aspects of litigation at the state and federal level through to appeal. Mr. Paine has successfully litigated matters involving infringement of design and utility patents, including software patents.  Mr. Paine also has successfully represented clients in disputes concerning copyright and trademark infringement, trade secrets misappropriation, franchise law, breach of contract, securities, defamation, probate litigation and tort liability.  Mr. Paine also represents and advises i-502 business clients about issues of regulatory compliance, transactions and intellectual property.    Mr. Paine is a member of the Intellectual Property Inn of Court. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Paine lived in Kyoto, Japan where he served as the head chef for a traditional Japanese restaurant called Tosai. Mr. Paine is fluent in speaking, and proficient in reading and writing, Japanese.. Mr. Paine received his J.D. from the University of California Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law and his B.A. from Wesleyan University, graduating with honors.

My practice includes environmental regulatory work and litigation, as well as commercial litigation and resolving business disputes.  I have successfully represented individuals, corporations, and tribes in litigation at administrative hearings and in trial and appellate courts. My litigation practice has particular emphasis on commercial disputes, insurance, real estate, environmental, land use and Indian law. My environmental work involves RCRA, CERCLA (including Natural Resource Damage claims), Model Toxics Control Act, Clean Water Act, SEPA/NEPA and water rights. I have experience litigating in both state and federal courts, as well as arbitration. I also speak fluent Russian and I have volunteered for immigration clients who are domestic violence victims seeking legal status in United States as well as for low-income clients whose cars were impounded.

My areas of focus include: Please note. I choose not to advertise with Avvo. Reviews of my services are available by seraching for NW Strategy and Planning, PLLC on google. Settling estates after a family-member passes; Probate of wills; Settling estates where no Will was made; Complex estates and Small Estate Affidavits; and Wills for parents at all stages of life.. NWPS guides clients through the process of winding up affairs after a family member has passed.  We help manage the Probate process and administer Revocable Living Trusts. From the start, we focus your attention on the right questions and keep you informed as we go. Our job is keep your timelines, file the proper documents, and mail notices required by law.  NWSP prides itself on excellent client counseling.

Ms. Divine provides advice and litigates cases for individuals, businesses, non-profits and school districts in a wide range of employment matters, including employment contracts and policy manuals; severance packages and non-competition agreements; state and federal discrimination laws; disability accommodation; FMLA and other leave issues; drug-testing and employee privacy issues; harassment and misconduct investigations; wage and hour claims; and wrongful termination actions.

Ms. Dewar is an experienced lawyer focusing on labor & employment and business litigation. She has litigated complex cases in the state, federal and appellate courts for individuals to Fortune 500 companies, involving employment claims and disputes, unfair business practices, fraud, corporate disputes, and director and officer liability.. She represents employers and employees in complex employment law matters and is PHR certified, Professional in Human Resources.  She is skilled in wage and hour disputes, wrongful termination, retaliation, discrimination based on age, race, sex, disability, pregnancy, harassment, hostile work environment, Family Medical Leave Act, employment and severance agreements.. She was named a "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers magazine for three consecutive years. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the B. Dubrienski International Masters of Law Scholarship, the Neil J. MacDonald Award in Criminal Law, the highest grade point average in Pretrial Process (Civil Procedure), the Law Book Company Prize in Family Law, and the Solomon Greenberg Advocacy Honor List.. Ms. Dewar has written extensively on business and employment law issues. She was also a contributing author for Advising and Defending Corporate Directors and Officers, California Treatise Continuing Education of the Bar.  She was the featured presenter for the Intellectual Property, Entertainment and Internet Law Section of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association on the topic of "Idea Protection Under Implied Contract Theory." She has lectured on business and advertising law to other attorneys and was the guest speaker for Branding Basics Trademark Seminar Los Angeles MCLE Marathon.

Mr. Rapp's practice focuses on commercial real estate and business transactions. His real estate practice includes commercial and retail leasing for landlords and tenants, purchase and sale agreements, commercial real estate development, construction agreements, and commercial financing. His business practice includes acquisition and sale, entity formation, general counsel services, non-profit advising, and drafting a wide range of business contracts.. Mr. Rapp's experience also includes complex commercial litigation, including serving as a law clerk for two years at the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division II.. Mr. Rapp is a member of Seattle Rotary (#4). He also serves on the Board of Directors for Associates in Cultural Exchange, an international education non-profit organization, and is a former council member of Central Lutheran Church in Seattle.

Mr. Crowe's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and intellectual property matters. He also has experience in tax, investment fraud and antitrust litigation, white collar criminal investigations, securities arbitration, product liability matters, trademark enforcement and prosecution, and patent law. Mr. Crowe additionally represents i-502 business clients on compliance, transactional and intellectual property issues. Mr. Crowe has successfully represented clients through trial and on appeal.

Mirén First practices in the firm’s commercial litigation group. Mirén is an accomplished attorney with extensive insurance defense experience. Mirén’s practice focuses primarily on defending personal injury, property damage, product liability, premises liability, and general liability claims brought against individuals, commercial businesses, and non-profit organizations. Her practice also includes insurance coverage and insurance bad faith claims. Before joining Keller Rohrback L.L.P., Mirén was a partner at Wilson Smith Cochran Dickerson and was the founder of First Law, PLLC.

Masahiro "Max" Yoshimura is the Founder and Managing member of Washington International Law Group LLC ("WILG").  Before establishing WILG, Mr. Yoshimura, also a CPA, worked for prestigious international law firms and largest international accounting firms in New York, Seattle and Denver.. Mr. Yoshimura, a native of Japan, graduated from a Tokyo university with a business degree in 1983. Currently, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Practice Section of Washington State Bar Association and the Board of Directors of the Seattle Chapter of Washington Society of CPAs.  He served on the boards of the Japan America Society of Washington; World Trade Club of Seattle; a Japanese business association; and a Japanese alternative school in the past.

Margaret represents manufacturing and commercial clients in environmental, natural resource and litigation matters in Washington and California.  She focuses her practice on regulatory compliance, including with California’s controversial “Proposition 65” chemical exposure warning law, federal and state OSHA regulations and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS).  She also represents clients in Superfund-type cleanup cases at legacy remediation sites, such as at harbors and airports, and also at smaller sites. Margaret began her career in 1992 at White & Case in Los Angeles as a commercial litigator where she focused on insurance recovery for environmental response costs.  Prior to rejoining Riddell Williams, she practiced as a general practitioner with an emphasis on civil litigation.  Margaret was born in France and has lived many years in Paris, France.  She is fluent in French.

Larry's practice focuses on complex litigation, business representation and advice and environmental. He has tried and won many protracted, complex cases. He has successfully quarterbacked numerous environmental projects, including helping negotiate permitting, superfund remediation, and waste management/discharge programs for clients in the aluminum and maritime industries. His track record in litigation under CERCLA and the Washington MTCA is spotless, having tried and won cases of significant importance. He is especially willing to take on and aggressively handle matters of substantial financial and quality of life importance to his clients. As a result, he has accomplished several multi-million dollar settlements for injured plaintiffs in difficult product liability cases (aviation and automotive crash and defect cases) and obtained judgments and settlements involving more than $170 million in property tax valuation reduction on behalf of industrial clients. Larry is proud to say that many of his clients are lawyers from other communities and states who find themselves and their clients with legal challenges beyond their experience in product liability, environmental, and other complex problems.

Lance L. Lee, the firm’s only attorney, services all clients personally.  By running a streamlined practice, Mr. Lee avoids needing to use paralegals for preparation of documents and communication with clients.  As a result, his clients can expect a high level of quality in the preparation of their legal pleadings, as well as direct communication with their attorney.. When you hire this firm, you will be dealing directly with the attorney almost exclusively.  As a result, the attorney will be intimately familiar with the circumstances of your case.  And, you will get answers to your questions and concerns swiftly and directly with Low, Flat Rates.. You get this personalized level of service at very competitive prices.  We offer low flat rates for all types of representation, under either Chapter 7 or Chapter 13.

Kurt E. Boehl is recognized as one of the top marijuana lawyers in Washington State.  He is a member of the National Trial Lawyers, an exclusive legal organization composed of 100 trial lawyers from each state.  For the past five years, Kurt was selected as a Rising Star by Washington Law and Politics Magazine.  Kurt was also named as one of Washington State’s top criminal defense attorneys by Seattle Met Magazine.  In addition, Kurt has been awarded the prestigious Martindale Hubbell AV rating and is ranked Superb by the AVVO attorney rating service.  Kurt founded his own criminal defense law firm, the KB Law Group, PLLC, in 2005.  Kurt is a frequent speaker on cannabis law, and consults with a number of cannabusinesses in Washington State.  He received his B.A. from Metropolitan State University in Colorado and his J.D. from Seattle University School of Law.. *AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards.

Jim Breitenbucher focuses his civil trial practice on complex commercial and real estate disputes.  Jim also litigates non-compete, trade secret, product liability and wildfire lawsuits, and takes particular pride in handling cases that involve complex technical issues.  Beyond the Pacific Northwest’s courtrooms, Jim’s first two decades of practice have found him successfully defending a $500 million shareholder derivative action during a four-week trial in New York City; challenging fines issued by the Department of Financial Institutions before an administrative law judge in Olympia, Washington; and pursing a commercial claim before an arbitration panel in Milan, Italy.  Jim’s primary objective, however, is to resolve cases before trial, and he has obtained summary judgment while representing clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts in Washington and throughout the United States.. Jim originally joined Riddell Williams in 1999, after serving a two-year clerkship for the Honorable Faye C. Kennedy of the Washington Court of Appeals.  He practiced with Schulte Roth & Zabel in New York City from 2003 until rejoining Riddell Williams in 2007.. Jim received his J.D., Order of the Coif, from Washington University School of Law, where he was a Scholar in Law, received the Honor Scholar Award and served as an editor on law review.  Jim has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Washington.

James W. Taylor represents clients involved in the entertainment industry: actors, producers, filmmakers and screenwriters worldwide. His career has been varied and spans more than 30 years with positions in private law firms, corporate law departments and government legal positions. He was awarded a Master of Laws and Master of Arts degrees from the George Washington University and received his Juris Doctorate from the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Miami University of Ohio. Taylor is a member of the California, Washington and District of Columbia bar associations.He produced a documentary on the culture of Okinawa, Japan that was broadcast over a five year period on the Discovery HD Theatre. Several of his short films have won awards and been screened in the US and internationally. One of his screenplays recently was a semi-finalist in a national screenplay competition. Taylor has been a volunteer at the prestigious Sonoma International Film Festival for over five years where he has recruited celebrities, screened films, assisted with guest management and, since December 2017, worked as the Wine Manager for the 21st annual festival. As an attorney, he has held positions with the American Bar Association, acted as the Editor-in-Chief of a prestigious law journal and spoken widely around the world before conferences hosted by professional associations. He is also well published as an author.. Prior to joining The Jacobson Law Firm, Taylor spent 10 years working in the western Pacific and, while there, worked as the sole attorney to an important political figure in Micronesia as well as acting as the Legal Counsel for the Public Auditor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. Territory. Taylor is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who, during his military career, produced TV commercials for recruiting purposes, negotiated federal contracts and handled aircraft maintenance work on the Presidential Air Fleet. Today he practices a mixture of entertainment, technology law and also produces films.

I was born in Ethiopia and immigrated to United States.  Prior to coming to the U.S., I lived in Nairobi, Kenya for about three years.  I attended undergraduate colleges here in Washington State, and graduated with B.A. degrees of: Political Science, Social Sciences, and Minor in History.  Then, I attended Seattle University School of Law and graduated with Juris Doctorate (J.D.) in 2002.. My primary practice areas are: Civil litigation, Personal Injury (including Serious injuries), Criminal Law, Employment Discrimination, and Selected Immigration Cases. I care about all my clients and their cases, I work very hard to advance my clients causes and committed to obtaining favorable results.

In the last twenty years I have over 60 court appointments as an investigator in guardianship cases (guardian ad litem), and have successfully helped protect vulnerable adults and incapacitated people from exploitation.  I also have the uncommon distinction of several published family law appeals in addition to more usual family law experience.  My colleagues know me as a thorough researcher and conscientious advocate.  The cases that engage me the most involve clients who have been subjected to abuse or exploitation.. As background, I started practice in New York City after excellent college and law school back East, but I wanted to move back here (I grew up in Bellevue when it was a much smaller town).  I did move when my father died suddenly, so I let my Eastern bar memberships go and took two years to help my mother with her "horse nursery" in Enumclaw.  I worked back into law here by clerking for our general trial court in Seattle, then working with other attorneys on a variety of cases, and finally building my own practice gradually.   I find that working one-on-one with clients is very satisfying.