Top Malpractice Lawyers in ZIP 98101 | 42 available

Vanessa Vanderbrug focuses her practice in the areas of employment, administrative law, and personal injury. She dedicates her practice to ensuring that each client receives personal attention and has a full understanding of the issues they face. She has significant general litigation experience and diligently seeks to obtain the best results for her clients.. During law school, Vanessa served on the National Trial Team and on the Editorial Board of the Gonzaga Law Review. She also worked for the Office of the Attorney General as an intern representing the Department of Social and Health Services. After law school, Vanessa obtained “behind the scenes” insight into trial court work by serving as law clerk to Honorable Judge Joseph A. Thibodeau in Snohomish County. In 2009, Vanessa was honored to be named a Rising Star by Washington Law and Politics.

Sims is known by his colleagues and clients as an aggressive trial attorney who has litigated a wide variety of claims in state and federal courts. He has over two decades of experience litigating professional negligence (medical malpractice and legal malpractice), product liability, and catastrophic injury cases in both state and federal courts. His medical malpractice cases include birth trauma, delayed diagnosis, and surgical error matters. He has a particular interest in brain and spinal cord injureis, and recently served on the board of the Brain Injury Alliance of Washington. Sims co-tried his first legal malpractice matter shortly after he obtained his license and has since handled all stripes of legal malpractice matters along with legal-ethical issues and fee disputes. Sims’s product liability experience ranges from medical devices and consumer products to pharmaceutical mass torts.. Sims is a former chair of WSBA Character and Fitness Board, the WSBA Lawyers Fund for Client Protection Board, and the WSBA Professionalism Committee. He is a writer and frequent lecturer on topics such as traumatic brain injury, medical and legal malpractice, product liability, and litigation and trial technique. His work includes chapters in the Washington State Association for Justice (WSAJ) Product Liability Deskbook, the WSAJ Medical Malpractice Deskbook, WSAJ Auto Liability Deskbook, and the WSBA Legal Ethics Deskbook. Sims has also returned to U.W. Law as an adjunct faculty member, teaching practical trial advocacy to law students.  He is listed as  a “Super Lawyer” by SuperLawyers.com and has a 10 out of 10 rating on .. Sims lives in West Seattle with his spouse and their two boys. When he is not practicing law, he can be found coaching youth baseball or stream side, casting flies to reluctant trout.

Russell M. Aoki brings nearly 30 years of legal experience to his practice. His practice areas include criminal defense, business litigation, and personal injury claims. During his career, Mr. Aoki has served as judge pro tem, mediator, arbitrator, and Special Master. He has achieved the AV rating, the highest rating for legal abilities by Martindale Hubbell. Mr. Aoki has also been acknowledged by numerous legal associations and organizations as one of the foremost lawyers in criminal defense. He has been named one of the top 25 Criminal Defense Attorneys in Washington State by Washington Law & Politics every year from 2006 to 2015. Seattle Magazine, which recognizes outstanding lawyers based on “peer recognition and professional achievement,” selected Mr. Aoki in 2010 as a top attorney in criminal defense.Mr. Aoki previously served on the Washington State Bar Association’s Board of Governors, during which he also served as the State Bar Treasurer.  He is the Chair of the WSBA's Escalating Cost of Civil Litigation Task Force.  Mr. Aoki was the Washington State Supreme Court’s appointee to the Office of Public Defense Advisory Committee for twelve years. He is the past Board President of Northwest Defender Association, past President of the Asian Bar Association of Washington and a past Trustee of the King County Bar Association

R. Glenn Phillips believes in fighting for justice for real people. He has been practicing since 1984 and has tried more than 100 civil jury trials. In addition, he has settled numerous million and multi-million dollar cases. Glenn understands that corporate America and the insurance companies have tried, and continued to try to deny real people access to justice. He believes strongly in the principle that all citizens have the right of access to the courts. Mr. Phillips owns Phillips Law Firm which operates in Washington, California and nationally handling serious personal injury, product liability, workman's compensation, social security disability, medical malpractice, defective drug/device, and employee rights. Mr. Phillips has received the highest rating from Martindale Hubbel (5.0 out of 5.0) and is an AV rated attorney.. Mr. Phillips is actively involved in his firm's defective drug and devices practice. Our mass tort practice has an inventory of over 4,000 cases, covering such products as Accutane, Yaz/Yasmin/Ocella, Fosamax, Avandia, Medtronic Infuse, GranuFlo, Mirena, Risperdal and defective devices such as shoulder pain pumps and DePuy hip implants.. Mr. Phillips and his firm are recognized as leaders in pharmaceutical litigation and have been appointed to positions of leadership on various steering committees, science/ discovery committees and JCCP's.. Glenn is a member of the Washington state bar. He is also a member of the American Association of Justice, and a Eagle member of the Washington Associate for Justice,and the non-profit organization of Public Justice.. Glenn is a frequent speaker before such national groups as the National Trial Lawyers, Ammerican Association for Justice, Mass Torts Made Perfect, as well as various state trial lawyer groups.. Glenn is also an invited member of the TAOS group which is comprised of outstanding trial lawyers from across America.

Mr. Hineline is a Partner in Dorsey's Trial, Regulatory and Technology practice group. He is also Co-Chair of the Securities & Financial Institutions Litigation practice group. Before 1999, he was a Member with the Seattle law firm of Bogle & Gates P.L.L.C. Mr. Hineline's practice focuses on securities and complex commercial litigation.. Mr. Hineline's securities experience has been extensive. He has been actively involved in defending both domestic and foreign clients in large class action securities lawsuits involving, among other things, public offerings of stocks and bonds. Clients represented in this context include the issuers, their officers and directors, underwriters, and bond trustees. Mr. Hineline's experience also includes representing numerous broker/dealers in court and arbitration actions throughout the country, as well as representing parties in Securities & Exchange Commission and NASD investigations.

Mike Woerner works for the public good. A member of Keller Rohrback’s nationally recognized Complex Litigation Group since 1985, Mike focuses on class action and mass personal injury cases. He is skilled at focusing the Courts’ attention on key issues in litigation and at negotiating favorable settlements to bring relief to people who have experienced physical, emotional, and financial harm from environmental contamination, dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, and other negligent acts with far-reaching consequences.Mike was a member of the litigation team that received the 1995 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice for the In re Exxon Valdez litigation resulting from the devastation of thousands of miles of fishing ground around Prince William Sound, Kodiak Island, Chignik, and Cook Inlet after the infamous oil spill. He has more recently represented hundreds of clients in multiple states at risk of heart-valve damage or primary pulmonary hypertension from fen-phen diet drugs. Mike also has experience litigating and negotiating widespread medical negligence issues and misconduct by fiduciaries charged with investing retirement plan assets. With his focus on impact litigation, Mike strives to achieve full compensation for his clients as well as to compel institutional reform and change the conduct of powerful bad actors to prevent them from causing future harm. Outside of work, Mike enjoys traveling with his family experiencing new places and cultures, as well as staying closer to home cheering on his kids’ basketball and volleyball teams.

Jo Flannery is a member of the Litigation and Real Estate departments at Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland, PLLC. Raised by a real estate agent, and a former Realtor herself, Jo has a particular interest in real property law. With over a decade of broad litigation experience behind her, Jo's practice has focused, over the last seven years, primarily on representing condominium and homeowner associations in the pursuit and resolution of construction defect claims, risk management, and covenant governed disputes.. Since joining Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland in 2005, Jo’s practice has expanded to again include the prosecution of professional liability claims, insurance bad faith, products liability, construction disputes, real property disputes both commercial and residential including matters of fraudulent concealment, easements and other conveyance matters as well as environmental claims involving hazardous substances. Having practiced exclusively on the defense side in the early years and then exclusively on the plaintiff’s side for the next several years, Jo now splits the aisle. Still primarily a plaintiff’s lawyer, her practice once again includes representation and advice and counsel to developers, contractors and property owners in the development stage as well as in defense of litigation.

I have been in practice since 1971 representing injured persons and am admitted to the Bar in Washington and am a graduate of Whitman College and UW Law practice includes accident and injury litigation as well as medical and dental malpractice was selected as a Super Lawyer 2003-2006 by Law and Politics magazine. I am rated AV by Martindale served as President of The Forgotten Childrens Fund ( a Seattle Charity) from 1985-2003.

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.

For the entirety of her career, Liz has advocated for those injured by the wrongful acts of others. Liz focuses her work primarily on medical negligence, product liability litigation, wrongful death, and serious personal injury. Liz’s product liability experience ranges from automobile defects to consumer products.. Liz was born and raised in the Seattle area. She earned undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Political Science from Western Washington University. After graduating with honors, Liz attended the Seattle University School of Law, graduating cum laude. She also served as a law clerk extern to the Honorable Ricardo S. Martinez at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.. Liz is on the WSAJ Board of Governors. Liz has written articles and chapters primarily focused on product liability, including a chapter in the WSAJ Product Liability Deskbook, and a chapter in the WSAJ Motor Vehicle Litigation Deskbook. She is listed as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers and has a 10 out of 10 rating on .

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.

Attorney Michael Kolker is an experienced criminal defense attorney in Seattle WA.. He defends those accused of a wide array of felonies including sex crimes, drug offenses, DUI, violent crimes, and aggravated murder in the First Degree.. He has been lead counsel in more than 70 criminal jury trials in State, Federal and Municipal courts in Washington State.. His mission is to guide his clients through the legal maze while protecting and asserting his client’s legal rights.

A life-long resident of Washington State, Matt attended the University of Washington where he studied Asian History and Mandarin Chinese. After being elected Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior year, he graduated magna cum laude and went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from the UW in 1979. For over 30 years, he has represented plaintiffs in claims involving personal injury and wrongful death, primarily in the areas of medical negligence, construction accidents, personal injury and product liability, including toxic substances and pharmaceuticals. In addition to extensive work on various committees of the State and King County Bar Associations, Matt has served on the Board of Governors of the Washington State Association for Justice (WSAJ) and is a former Chair of the Association’s Medical Negligence Section. He is also a past editor of the Association’s magazine, Trial News, and has been a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) since 1985. Matt enjoys speaking at legal seminars and has published on various litigation subjects in legal periodicals and journals. Matt is consistently ranked as a “Super Lawyer®” by Washington Law & Politics magazine. In his free time, Matt is something of an exercise nut, regularly running, biking and weightlifting, but what Matt enjoys most is spending time with his wife and two daughters. He also served for a number of years as a member and President of the Board of Olympic Ballet Theatre in Edmonds, WA where he has participated onstage in several productions. When he began in his profession years ago, Matt wanted to change the world. He soon discovered that what he can do best is help individuals. He derives his greatest satisfaction from doing just that-- helping one person at a time.