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With over twenty years of complex commercial litigation experience, I have acted as lead trial counsel in numerous commercial cases throughout the Western United States, both in Federal and State courts. Prior to joining Lee & Hayes, I was the Managing Partner of one of Spokane, Washington’s largest law firms. After completing law school, I clerked for the Honorable Justin L. Quackenbush, Chief Federal Judge for the Eastern District of Washington. I am well versed in all types of litigation, including commercial and banking, employment, franchise, contractor and subcontractor disputes, environmental, insurance, real estate, and land use litigation.. I'm honored to have been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America in the field of Commercial Litigation from 2013-2016. I'm also AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

When my clients call the office, they speak with me, not an assistant or associate attorney. Over 90% of my business is word of mouth referrals from prior clients. Your initial consultation is always free. Most cases are handled on a contingent fee basis with no cost to you.

Scott R. Staab is admitted to practice in both Washington and Idaho. He practices in both state and federal courts.  He primarialy focuses on DUI, Criminal, and Personal Injury cases. He is an exceptional trial lawyer committed to client satisfaction. Call for a free consultation at.

Safety and security in our daily lives -- it's something we all take for granted until harm comes to your or a loved one because of another person's bad choice.  I dedicate my law practice to helping those harmed by others.  This includes not only financial compensation, but also obtaining a sense of justice and accountability for those responsible.

Rondi Thorp is a partner in the law firm of Meyer Thorp Attorneys at Law.  Her practice emphasis is personal injury, workers' compensation and civil rights litigation. She enjoys litigation and trial work. She is passionate about helping injured, disabled and discriminated people get the benefits and recovery they deserve.  Rondi is a hard-working, dedicated attorney who has 17 years of litigation experience. Rondi has been named one of the best attorneys in the Spokane/Coeur d' Alene area in Spokane Coeur d' Alene Living Magazine for the past four years in a row. Rondi is an Eagle Member of the Washington State Association for Justice. She supports various charities especially those that help children and individuals with autism. Rondi has been the lead attorney on multi-million dollar cases and has secured millions of dollars for her clients. Rondi is a mother of two children and loves spending time with her family in the mountains and lakes around Washington and Montana.

Patrick K. Fannin's practice focuses on complex civil litigation, including construction defect claims, personal injury, and professional malpractice. He has argued and tried various civil matters before a number of Washington Courts, including the Washington State Supreme Court. He is admitted to the Federal District Courts for Eastern and Western Washington and the State of Idaho.  He is a member of the Spokane and King County Bar Associations. He is the owner and founder of the law firm Fannin Litigation Group, P.S.

My practice primarily focuses on employment and civil rights issues. My typical caseload includes claims involving sexual harassment, severance, wrongful termination, retaliation, discrimination, whistleblower, and wage and hour disputes.. I was born and raised in Spokane, Washington. I grew up camping and fishing by local lakes and rivers, and I love my hometown. I attended Western Washington University and earned a degree in Economics and Political Science. After college, I worked in the banking sector for several years. In an effort to make a bigger impact in my community, I enrolled in the first accelerated JD program at Gonzaga School of Law. My focus was on consumer protection and corporate law. My first job out of law school was working on a grant for unemployed Veterans at the Unemployment Law Project. After the grant period ended, I wanted to continue to pursue public interest law.. I am most interested in improving the lives of the people of Spokane and Washington State. I am a fierce advocate of social justice and am always eager to pursue the interests of the poor, weak, and marginalized.

My practice focuses on family law, civil litigation, commercial litigation, and appeals. Before becoming a litigator, I clerked with the Superior Court Commissioners.

Mary Giannini has over 20 years of experience advising healthcare providers. Prior to joining Witherspoon Kelley, she served as the coordinator of hospital services for a California hospital council, and as Director of Planning and Implementation for a healthcare planning network for the State of Idaho.. Mary consults with providers on compliance and implementation of health information and security, as well as compliance with fraud and abuse and Stark laws. She drafts and negotiates healthcare contracts, joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions. She assists practitioners in practice management issues, including employment, contracting, reimbursement, health and safety, and antitrust issues.

John has been a partner in the firm since 1983. His practice involves serious personal injury complex litigation, with an emphasis on traumatic brain injuries and spinal/aquatic injuries.. John is active within the Washington State Brain Injury Association and has served as past executive director for the local chapter. John is currently the president of the Foundation Board for Inland Northwest Hospital Service and is past president of the St. Luke's Rehabilitation Advisory Board of Directors.  He also is a member of the executive committee and Vice Chairman of Banner Bank.  He has received his Aquatic Specialty Certification.. Because of his extensive and diverse experience with brain injuries and his extremely successful representation of its victims, John garners the highest level of respect within the medical community, and has been honored by his peers as one of the State of Washington's "Super Lawyers". John also was named as one of Washington's top 100 trial lawyers by the American Trial Lawyers Association. Feel free to review the testimonials of several of John's peers in the medical community.

Jenna Hatch is an attorney at Hatch Law. Jenna’s practice encompasses selective criminal law cases and all areas of family law with a focus on mediation. Each year, Hatch Law mediates and settles hundreds of family law disputes. Jenna is equally comfortable either mediating or litigating contentious and complex dissolutions. Jenna is a Spokane native and received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and ethics from Washington State University before graduating cum laude from Gonzaga University School of Law. Prior to joining Hatch Law, Jenna worked as an intern at the Spokane City Prosecutor’s Office. Outside of work, Jenna is an avid football fan (Go Cougs!) and keeps active in a variety of outdoor activities.

James A. McPhee is the Managing Partner of Witherspoon Brajcich McPhee, PLLC, in Spokane, Washington. Licensed in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, Mr. McPhee's practice has focused primarily on litigation of commercial, employment, corporate, and real property disputes for over 20 years.. He earned his undergraduate degree in Speech Communications from Gonzaga University and his law degree, cum laude, from Gonzaga University School of Law where he founded its Labor and Employment Law Caucus.. He is the Spokane County Bar Foundation's President and co-incorporator, he is a board member of the Gonzaga University School of Business Dean's Business Forum Board, he's a board member of Spokane County Bar Association's Diversity Section, he's a Standing Advisory Committee member of the Spokane County Bar Association's Volunteer Lawyers' Program, and he's the President and Chair of the Dan Fitzgerald Memorial Basketball Tournament. Since 2008 he has served as either chair or panel attorney of the Spokane County Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Panel. He served the Spokane County Bar Association as its President, President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, and Trustee. He was a member of the Washington State Bar Association's Bar Leaders Conference Planning Committee and was an Executive Board Member of its Labor and Employment Law Section. Mr. McPhee is a former Gonzaga University basketball player and he finished his career as its second all-time leading scorer, a four-time all conference selection, a GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American, a member of the District VIII CoSIDA All-Academic First Team, and a two-time National Jesuit News First Team All-American.. When he's not working, he enjoys spending time with his family, cycling, and running including an October 2016 and a May 2021 Grand Canyon rim-to-rim run from the North Kaibab Trail and then up the Bright Angel Trail to the South Rim.

I provide skilled counsel, practical mediation representation, and 14 years of court room experience to my family law and guardianship clients in the Spokane area.. My professional experiences as a lawyer, guardian ad litem, and teacher give me the knowledge and insight to develop parenting plans for your children and present your custody issues to the court.. In my approach to dividing property and determining maintenance (spousal support, etc), I work with my clients to balance short and long term financial goals. The well being of their family now and into the future is my primary concern.. I believe that it is important to work together with my clients to ground their decisions in a long term view of their new circumstances and build a solid future for themselves and their children.. I am protective of the rights and the future of my clients. My philosophy is best summed up by Theodore Roosevelt, "speak softly but carry a big stick." If you believe this approach will work for you, please contact me. I will give your case personnel attention at a reasonable cost.

I do all filings, writings and pleadings myself. What makes me different is the personal service I provide to every client. All clients get my mobile number and email, so they can reach me when the inevitable panic attack happens. Before I became a lawyer, I worked as a paralegal in a well-known law firm in Midtown, Manhattan (New York).What I lack in decades of practice experience, I make up for with my tenacity and my client-friendly fees. I am also a military veteran who trained in military intelligence and served in the wake of 9/11. I enjoy spending my free time with my spouse and kids.

I am a mediator/arbitrator and practice personal injury and civil rights law.   I was on the bench for 19 years as a Washington Court of Appeals  Commissioner and Judge and a Spokane County Superior Court Judge.  I am a neutral with the American Arbitration Association.

HEATHER HOOVER is a solo practioner who practices exclusively family law in a wide range of domestic matters such as dissolutions, legal separations, child custody, paternity, domestic violence, and child support. She has experience litigating cases at trial, as well as having a high success rate of resolving cases with a result favorable to her clients.. Ms. Hoover earned her undergraduate degree from Pensacola Christian College, graduating Summa Cum Laude, and her J.D. degree from Gonzaga University School of Law, graduating Magna Cum Laude.

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Evening and weekend calls accepted for new clients - or email me at   I graduated from Gonzaga University Law School in 1985.  I have been blessed with a successful practice for two reasons. First is my love of bankruptcy law and second is my sincere desire to help my clients feel that they have been taken care of personally and professionally. I treat every client as an individual who deserves to be listened to and advised to the best of my ability.  I do not use a paralegal to interview the clients or answer questions. The client meets with me. I instruct the secretary on all paperwork, I go through the papers with the client, answer questions and attend the creditor meetings with the client.. I am known for maintaining a relaxed office. You will feel welcome everytime.  My husband, Victor, has worked with me for the past 16 years and keeps the electronic filing in check.  Patty, the secretary, is mature and on top of her work.  My dog, Edgar, is no longer with us. We took him in as a puppy and for 17 years  he repaid us every day by working in the office greeting clients at the door and escorting them to and from my office.  I love my work.   I love my life.  I need a dog....

DOUGLAS R. HUGHES, named the Top Lawyer in Child Custody, is a principal partner in Hughes & Nelson, P.L.L.C. handling child custody and divorce matters. Douglas R. Hughes was a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Spokane County for over 9 years prior to focusing on high conflict and complex child cusotdy and divorce matters in the last 11+ years. These years of practice in both trial litigation as well as neogitaiton and mediation give Douglas R. Hughes a unique perspective on matters involving family law and child custody. Douglas R. Hughes has been recognized as the Top Lawyer in Child Custody for several years by Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Living Magazine, a presenter at continuing legal education seminars as well as police academy training while a prosecutor. His expertise in the law combined with effective negotiation skills allow him to strive to achive the best result for clients under the circumstances in each case. Douglas R. Hughes graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law, as well as earning an English degree from Washington State University. Douglas R. Hughes is accepting clients in areas of divorce, separation, child custody/parenting plans, contempt, child support, third party custody, modifications and contempts. Douglas R. Hughes is also a certified Guardian ad Litem which informs his child custody practice. If you have a family law, divorce, or child custody matter, don't hesitate to call right away.

Doug has practiced law for over 44 years in D.C., New York, PA, CA and WA, trying cases there and in other states by association. He has obtained many settlements and verdicts up to $3.5 Million.  He currently focuses on serious injury cases, sex abuse and nursing home abuse in numerous states with his partners or in association with other attorneys and firms.. Over the past 20+ years, Doug has served variously on the board of Governors, as VP and Executive Committee Member of the Washington State Association of Justice--WSAJ--The State Trial Lawyers' Assn.  WSAJ  awarded Doug the prestigious Public Justice Award, given to only one attorney in the state of Washington per year.. Doug has been listed as a “TOP ATTORNEY” and "TOP PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEY” in Spokane & Coeur D’Alene Living Magazine in 2017 and 2018 respectively.  Doug has been a speaker at Continuing Legal Education--CLE--seminars on litigation topics such as, Motion Practice, Video Recording Depositions and others.. Doug's pro-bono work includes; incorporating and co-founding "Heal The Bay" in Los Angeles . Successfully helping "Save the Ballona Wetlands" in L.A., co-founding, incorporating and chairing "Cup of Cool Water”, which helps street youth in Spokane, co-sponsoring/supporting/feeding students at a destitute school in Haiti, serving as Corporate Secretary of Episcopal Properties in Spokane which operates some 1200 units of low income housing in  Spokane, and helping indigent people and environmental issues, wherever he goes.

Dan advises a wide variety of businesses, from startups to well-established companies, in the areas of corporate, securities and financing, trademark and brand protection, intellectual property protection and commercialization, IP licensing, wine beer and spirits, and commercial transactions. Dan has a passion for helping startups and emerging companies navigate the complex business and legal landscape and is able to assist clients in every stage of the business lifecycle, from formation and financing to a successful exit. Dan also has considerable experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial transactions in the areas of manufacturing, services, agriculture, SAAS and technology development. In addition, Dan regularly counsels and assists clients with the strategic acquisition, protection, registration, commercialization and enforcement of all types of intellectual property rights.

As a single parent, Ms.Poplawski began her undergraduate work in Public Policy at Penn State University, then continuing on to graduate school at Harvard University, where Ms.Poplawski was already being recognized as an exceptional leader and confident communicator with a work ethic that was well-recognized by her peers. Her talents eventually made the journey from the east coast all the way to the Pacific Northwest to attend law school at Gonzaga University School of Law with her young son in tow.. Once at Gonzaga, Ms.Poplawski immediately began distinguishing herself as a leader by working at a level beyond what was expected. Because of her dedication to excellence, she was awarded a Gonzaga Public Interest Law Project summer grant to work with women and children in the Spokane community. After earning her Juris Doctorate from Gonzaga University School of Law, Ms.Poplawski began work at the Center for Justice where she practiced family law, employment law, and was supervising attorney for the Firm’s Community Advocacy Department.. Ms.Poplawski has built her reputation on the foundations of hard work and stellar representation of her clients and their interests. She has always been committed to highly attentive and aggressive representation. The local legal community has certainly taken notice to this exceptional work.. In 2002, Ms.Poplawski received a coveted two-year Equal Works Fellowship, chosen as one of only 40 selected nationwide for this prestigious fellowship in the United States. Ms.Poplawski’s reputation for exceptional legal representation continued to gain attention from the Washington legal community. In 2005, she was named the recipient of Myra Bradwell Award, a prestigious award from Gonzaga School of Law Women’s Law Caucus presented to an attorney who demonstrates courage and strength in the practice of law and is committed to representing the interests of women and children in the community. Previous recipients of the Myra Bradwell award include Washington Governor Christine Gregoire and State Appellate Court Judge Mary Fairhurst.. In 2013 the Inlander Magazine's reader's poll voted her Best Attorney of 2013. ?oid=2156421. Ms.Poplawski has continued to remain highly active in the community. In 2007, Ms.Poplawski received the Status Conference Advice Clinic Volunteer Attorney of the Year Award for 2013. She then recevied the Volunteer Attorney of the Year Award for 2014. She continues to volunteer every Thursday at the status confernce and show cause court dockets  helping pro se litigants navigate through the court system in assisting them in preparation of their final court documents. She has been a board member of the St. Joseph’s Family Center and received the Washington State Bar Association Pro Bono Public Service Commendation Award in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.  Ms. Poplawski is the current ViceChair of the WSBA Character and FItness Board (Chair effective October 2015).. Ms.Poplawski is also a Pro Tem Commissioner in Spokane County District Court.. Prior to her legal career, Ms.Poplawski worked for the Pennsylvania State Senate, the Commission on the Status of Women in New York City, and the American Red Cross.