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Stephania Denton specializes in insurance coverage issues, class action litigation, and health care disputes. She has significant experience arguing before the Washington State Supreme Court and state and federal trial and appellate courts. Away from the office, Stephania is actively involved in her community and with her children’s schools and sports teams.

Since my career has focused on working with start-ups, I understand the common set of issues which effect emerging companies. I have dedicated my career to this area because I am entrepreneurial myself and thrive on the excitement and energy involved in new ventures and ideas. I genuinely enjoy working with entrepreneurs and welcome the opportunity to become part of the team that helps them achieve their objectives.

Scott Edwards is Co-chair of Lane Powell's State and Local Tax Practice and is experienced in appeals and litigation, tax refund claims, audit defense, multi-state tax issues and tax planning. He is a frequent speaker on state and local tax issues and has given presentations for various organizations including the Committee on State Taxation (COST), the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT) and the Tax Executives Institute (TEI). He currently serves as Assistant Editor for the Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives and co-teaches a class on state and local tax for the University of Washington’s Tax LLM program. Scott also serves on the Legal Affairs Council, and Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee for the Association of Washington Business, and is on the Executive Committee of the Washington Research Council. Scott is also Co-chair of the Results Committee for the American Red Cross, Western Washington Region.

Rachel Greenlee is a litigator, with a focus on real estate and other complex litigation. During law school, Rachel served as a Certified Intern with both the St. Louis City Public Defender and Federal Public Defender’s offices, where she gained valuable courtroom experience and trial skills. She was also a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Ronald B. Leighton of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Rachel Bowe focuses her practice on employment counseling and litigation matters, including wage and hour, enforcement of restrictive covenants and employment agreements, and FMLA and discrimination claims.  Rachel has defended clients against race, age, gender, and disability discrimination and retaliation claims, and she frequently represents clients in business tort disputes.  Rachel also has significant experience in nationwide, complex litigation, including class actions.  Rachel takes a strategic and practical approach to litigation, partnering with her clients and keeping their business objectives at the forefront. She has experience representing clients in both state and federal court jurisdictions across the country.. In addition to her employment law practice, Rachel is strongly committed to serving the legal needs of the economically disadvantaged and advancing diversity initiatives for the legal profession. She is a dedicated volunteer for the King County Housing Clinics, and was also an avid volunteer for the Children’s Law Center of Minnesota and the Volunteer Lawyers Network.

Mary Lee Moseley has 27 years of experience in estate planning and trust and estate administration, and has worked as a trusts and estates attorney in Maine, California and Washington. She has extensive experience with complex estate planning, estate and trust administration, and IRS gift and estate tax audits. Mary Lee previously worked as a director with Deloitte Tax, LLP’s Estate, Gift and Trust Tax Practice for 16 years, where she was responsible for the planning and implementation of transfer tax strategies for high net worth individuals and the administration of complex estates.

Makiko Coffland focuses her practice on intellectual property and technology law. She advises and represents clients in patent, trademark, copyright and contractual matters, including negotiation, enforcement and defense. Makiko is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has experience securing patents in the bio-tech, software and electronics industries, among others.

Lauren McCray focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation. She has experience handling white collar, government investigations, class action defense, consumer protection and employment issues.

Kate Spelman has more than 30 years of experience providing strategic advice, design and implementation counsel for large, mid-sized and startup companies on copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent matters, both nationally and internationally, and has a special focus on media, licensing and mass digitization issues. Kate advises and counsels clients on the development, production, sale and defense of work related to emerging content distribution strategies and challenges, special issues in news reporting including repurposing content, and firewall and paywall configuration in light of changes in the fair use defense.. Kate is a frequent speaker on the progress of emerging copyright and digital publishing issues, and has advised authors, nonprofit and for-profit publishers, and internet service providers on the new language and provisions of the changed, global distribution environment. She has represented large digital publishing companies in international distribution agreements as well as represented developers and designers who are building and launching tools for online transmissions, storytelling, expression and art.. Additionally, Kate has experience assisting clients with Open Source licensing issues, including Open Source integrated licenses, audits, mergers and acquisitions due diligence, and compliance negotiations. Kate also helps clients design independent holding companies in the U.S. and in offshore intellectual property asset management. She has experience with intellectual property asset audits, and has assisted companies in proactive and reactive Sarbanes-Oxley compliance reporting requirements.

Kara Tredway focuses her practice on complex civil litigation. She represents health care, long term care and seniors housing providers in litigation involving allegations of wrongful death, negligence and abuse. Kara also defends other businesses in litigation involving catastrophic and workplace injuries.

Julie Nicoll’s practice focuses on the defense of environmental claims and insurance coverage counseling. She has extensive experience negotiating orders for cleanup with federal and state agencies, and advising clients on property redevelopment. Julie also represents clients on land use matters, real estate transactions and construction projects. Prior to beginning her legal career, Julie operated her own consulting firm where she assisted clients with environmental compliance and permitting projects. Julie’s background also allows her to strategically advise businesses and individuals on a variety of environmental regulatory compliance matters.

Jennifer Sheffield focuses her practice on complex litigation matters. She has litigated cases involving contract, tort, personal injury, insurance, and labor and employment claims. She also represents health care providers and long term care providers, handling cases that involve allegations of malpractice, negligent hiring and supervision, neglect, wrongful death and personal injury. Her experience includes litigation of commercial disputes in federal and state court.. Jennifer was recently named as a Rising Star in business litigation by Super Lawyers. In addition to serving on the Washington State Minority and Justice Commission, Jennifer is the Immediate Past President of the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington and continues to serve on LBAW’s Board.

Jenifer Jewkes is a member of Lane Powell's Trusts and Estates Practice Group and focuses her practice on estate and succession planning, as well as estate and trust administration for high net worth families and individuals. As a former Tax Manager with Deloitte Tax LLP, Jenifer has experience in planning and compliance with regard to income, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes. She advises individuals, trusts, estates, tax-exempt organizations, corporations and partnerships on tax and planning matters.

I focus my practice on securities litigation, antitrust matters and complex commercial disputes. I defend public companies in both state and federal courts in securities and antitrust class actions, and shareholder derivative litigation. I'm also also experienced in contract disputes, trade secrets litigation, stock-options backdating cases, and mergers and acquisitions, and have represented a major software company in two antitrust jury trials.

Frank is a member of Lane Powell’s Startups and Emerging Companies Practice Group and focuses his practice on social impact companies and investments.. Frank is an experienced general counsel with significant corporate strategy and business management experience. Frank works with management teams, investors, boards of directors and business owners to address strategic opportunities and challenges. He counsels clients on issues ranging from corporate structuring and governance to capital strategies, organizational development and commercial transactions.. Frank has held a number of executive roles for companies ranging from public telecom firm Rhythms NetConnections, where he served as General Counsel; biofuel retailer Propel Fuels, where he acted as General Counsel and Vice President of Corporate Development; organic produce e-commerce leader Full Circle Farm, where he was Chief Operating Officer and Board Member; and Clean Conversion Technologies, where he served as President.

Dave Schoeggl has more than 30 years of experience handling complex high-stakes trials and arbitrations for clients including national and international insurers, the aviation industry, product manufacturers, and local businesses facing difficult or unusual claims. He is also frequently retained as an expert in cases involving insurance, claims handling and professional liability. Dave also arbitrates and mediates insurance and aviation disputes. Dave is a licensed private pilot as well as the skipper of his 88’ Classic Fantail Yacht.

Chuck Rullman focuses his practice on litigation and dispute resolution, and has extensive experience litigating labor and employment matters, commercial disputes, intellectual property issues, and claims arising from probate and non-probate proceedings. Chuck represents companies of all sizes, governmental entities and individuals in industries such as financial services, consumer products, construction and new technologies. Chuck has significant first-chair trial and appellate experience and has also represented clients in all phases of class action litigation.

Bryan Santarelli has an active intellectual property practice focusing on domestic and foreign representation in electrical, electronic, semiconductor, computer and mechanical patent matters, and in trademark and licensing matters. His patent work includes video compression and decompression (e.g., MPEG), disk drives, wireless communications (e.g., OFDM, MIMO-OFDM), semiconductor memories (e.g., DRAM, EPROM, EEPROM and SRAM), microprocessors, audio electronics, defibrillators, analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) converters, analog and digital circuits, and system stimulators. Bryan has worked in several nationally known intellectual property firms, and worked as a law clerk in the patent department of Raytheon Company. Prior to beginning his legal career, Bryan designed analog and digital circuits for the industrial products group of Polaroid Corporation, where he co-invented and patented a high-speed laser driver for medical printer applications.

As a member of Lane Powell's Trusts and Estates Practice Group, Jamie works with individuals and families to help them achieve their estate and personal planning goals. Specifically, she focuses her practice on gift and estate tax issues and trust and estate administration. Jamie also has experience advising nonprofit organizations with respect to formation and compliance issues. Prior to joining Lane Powell, Jamie served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Marc Barreca in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington.

Alison Jones focuses her practice on complex litigation. Prior to joining Lane Powell, Alison worked as a Summer Associate for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Her other past work experience includes Program Supervisor with Skills Inc., a nonprofit aerospace manufacturing company that trains and employs individuals with disabilities in Seattle. She also worked as an Intern for the American Enterprise Institute and as a Paralegal with O’Melveny & Myers in Washington D.C.

Aaron Fickes focuses his practice on transportation, aviation, regulatory compliance and appellate litigation. He has represented institutions and individuals in a broad range of matters, from contract disputes to class actions alleging violations of federal and state law.

Aaron Brecher focuses his practice on litigation. In addition to his experience as a Summer Associate with Lane Powell, Aaron has worked as a Law Clerk with both the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He also previously worked as a Legal Intern for the Washtenaw County Office of the Public Defender in Ann Arbor, Michigan.