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For almost four decades, Mark Choate has dedicated his practice to representing injured individuals and their families.  He has been lead counsel in hundreds of trials and is a firm believer in the importance of trial by jury. A 1980 graduate of the Seattle University School of Law, he is licensed to practice in Alaska, Washington, California, and Hawaii.  He is a graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College and actively involved in many professional organizations.

I grew up on the east coast. I worked fishing during summertime before living as a expatriot abroad. I learned Spanish and some Arabic and some Russian. In 1973 I started night law school in Minnesota. I worked as a lobbyist for the Minnesota Grocers Association. I started working as a trial lawyer after admission to the bar in Minnesota in 1978. I moved to Alaska and began practicing law in Alaska in 2014. My grandfather died earlier than destined from a melanoma which the family doctor missed. I help families with loved ones injured by doctors as well as nursing home mistakes. The office also helps people harmed by drunk drivers, reckless drivers, collisions with trudks and commercial vehicles where fatigue and commercial errors contribute to harming others. I also help seaman injured at sea.

Mr. O’Donnell graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia in 1976, where he was an Atlantic Coast Conference Honor Roll student athlete.  After running a painting business and working nights at a large commercial bakery, Mr. O'Donnell returned to the University of Virginia and received his law degree there in 1980.  After law school, he served as a law clerk to the Virginia Supreme Court. A promised position with the Department of Interior Solicitor's Honors Program and a mountain climbing avocation led Mr. O'Donnell to Alaska.  Mr. O'Donnell is listed in Alaska Super Lawyers.  Mr. O’Donnell has also received the highest possible rankings for legal ability ("A" for high to preeminent) and ethical standards ("V" for very high) from Martindale-Hubbell a national peer-review organization.. In 2015 Mr. O'Donnell received the honor of being one of the few Alaska attorneys to be inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.  "The American College of Trial Lawyers, founded in 1950, recognizes the very best trial lawyers from the United States and Canada.  The College's Fellows are chosen strictly by invitation and only after a rigorous and lenghty investigation.  The candidate must be identified as a highly skilled trial lawyer in the opinion of judges and practitioners, and as a person whose ethics, moral standards and collegiality are above reproach.  Fellowship is limited to one percent of the lawyers in any individual State or Providence, and the candidate must have practiced for at least 15 years."