Business legal matters in Seattle typically resolve within 4 to 18 months, depending on complexity and whether the case proceeds to trial.
Seattle Court Backlog
The Seattle area courts generally have a backlog of 50 to 250 active business cases, with fluctuations based on filings and court resources.
Business Seattle Filing Volume
Seattle sees an estimated 30 to 90 new business-related legal filings per month, reflecting the city's active commercial environment.
Business Case Outcomes
Resolution rates are higher before formal litigation (around 55%), decrease post-filing (35%), and are lowest at trial (15%), based on public outcome data.
1420 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4200 , Seattle , Washington 98111
Practice Areas: Business
Julie Seidenstein focuses her practice on transactional real estate, real estate finance, and secured, unsecured, structured and project financing for regional and national clients. She represents institutional lenders, finance companies, pension funds and borrowers with respect to construction and permanent real estate loans for retail, office, hospitality, multifamily and mixed-use properties on a national basis, including traditional balance-sheet loans, commercial mortgage-backed securities, participation and syndication structures, loan modifications and mezzanine financing. Julie has extensive experience in counseling clients in the sale and acquisition of commercial real estate, and the drafting and negotiation of loan documents, leases, loan sale agreements, legal opinions, and purchase and sale agreements. She also regularly advises clients in general corporate and business matters.
Katrina Brede earned her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Kansas where she majored in film studies and US History. She received her J.D. from Seattle University School of Law. She has a background in media production and experience with start-ups and brings that knowledge to better understand the legal challenges of small businesses.
The Law Office of K.D. Long is an intellectual property law firm focusing on trademark and copyright law. The firm was started to help entrepreneurs and small businesses compete in a world often dominated by large companies and interests. By providing high quality service at reasonable rates, the Law Office of K.D. Long is able to propel its clients into the most competitive markets. The firm prides itself in efficiency, attention to detail, and customer service.
1111 Third Avenue, Suite 3000 , Seattle , Washington 98101
Practice Areas: Business
Josh is an experienced land use, real estate and business lawyer, with an emphasis on complex projects, permitting, and land use regulatory compliance. He works with clients to negotiate purchase and sale agreements, perform due diligence, obtain land use approvals, conduct environmental review, and address permitting and legislative issues involving zoning, platting, shoreline compliance and growth management. Josh is an experienced land use, environmental and real estate trial lawyer, having successfully represented clients in administrative tribunals, superior court actions, alternative dispute resolution proceedings, and before the Washington Appellate Courts.
Josh also is a seasoned business lawyer, devoting a significant amount of his practice to advising closely held Seattle-based businesses as outside general counsel. Josh provides strategic business and legal advice and handles corporate governance and commercial litigation matters for his clients.
Josh brings over 20 years of land use and planning background to his practice. Prior to attending law school, Josh worked as an environmental planner and consultant for premier Northwest firms and he served as one of four staff members on the Vermont Governor’s blue-ribbon Growth Management Commission, which ultimately recommended and crafted Vermont’s Growth Management Act.. Josh was appointed to the Seattle Planning Commission in 2008 and was twice elected Chair of the Commission. He served six years on the Planning Commission.
522 N. 85th Street, Suite B100 , Seattle , Washington 98103
Practice Areas: Business
My practice focuses on advising emerging companies, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals on matters ranging from business structuring and formation, to capital raising, general contracts, and intellectual property protection. I work closely with each client to help manage the predictable and unpredictable legal issues that any venture encounters in the business and regulatory environment.. When not working on client matters, I like to spend my time going on adventures with my daughter, fixing my old house, and trying to keep up on my ever expanding collection of half-read books.
Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Business , Civil , Corporate , Products Liability, Securities , Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation
I have been happily married to Mary Stamper Lynam for 24 years and I am blessed with two great daughters, Kaeli and Natalie. My interests and hobbies include golfing, coaching basketball, playing guitar, and other fun activities. Two of my favorite authors are John Grisham and Carl Hiaasen.
1700 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2100 , Seattle , Washington 98101
Practice Areas: Business
Dan Bariault has over thirty years of experience in all aspects of corporate and business law, with particular emphasis in business tort litigation, tax litigation, securities litigation, antitrust, unfair business practices, and regulated industries. In the past fifteen years has worked with many high-tech startups in all aspects of business formation and corporate governance. He has also taught graduate business courses at three different universities in finance, business development, securities and portfolio analysis, valuation analysis, and international marketing and management.. Mr. Bariault represents a host of marijuana producers, processors, and retailers, investors, and companies serving the cannabis industry.. He is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and several federal jurisdictions. He holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in International Management. He has also practiced law in both the Republic of China and Puerto Rico.
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2200 , Seattle , Washington 98101
Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Corporate , Health Care & Hospitalization, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology and Science, Business, Business, Business
.. EXCEPTIONAL LEGAL AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS SERVICES, ADVICE AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR EMERGING BUSINESSES AND ESTABLISHED CORPORATIONS. Joleen Winther Hughes founded HMLG specifically to support entrepreneurs and inventors, both big and small, with new business ventures, business and legal strategy and burgeoning media properties, products and services. As a longtime entrepreneur herself, Joleen understands the trials and tribulations of starting and running a successful business and how to allocate and assess risk to get products and services to market.. Joleen takes pride in providing legal and business advice to clients to help transform a good idea into a sustainable company. She has set HMLG up specifically to enable clients to set and maintain workable legal budgets and to depend on great communication and interaction with her extraordinary legal team.. Joleen has many years of experience providing high-level in house counsel level service to a diverse range of clients, including MobiTV, Agility Studios, ZeptoLab (Cut the Rope), , OnCam, Paramount Digital Entertainment, Big Fish Games, Sanjaya Malakar, DIY Media, Amazon, Yamaha, LXD, Lima Sky (Doodle Jump), r2integrated; Votiv Inc; 360 Solutions, Brightcove, 206 Inc., iFilm, GetBack Media, PulpLab; SpinKix, Music Interactive, Corbis, Microsoft, Flying Spot Entertainment Group, Wet Paint, Cascade Game Foundry, Smartbomb Interactive, Jivox, Zango, Ooyala, Common Craft, Square Enix, Playmous (Tap the Frog), the Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company, Lisa Amore Public Relations, No Depression, Alina's Cucina, and Digital Sidebar, to name a few.. Before embarking in private practice, Joleen provided a broad array of business and legal affairs services for RealNetworks’ global media operations and participated in the company’s largest transactions in the consumer services/digital media space including forming MusicNet, the first legal multi-label music distribution initiative, putting together the first VOD digital movie subscription service, and drafting and negotiating agreements with major sports leagues, media companies, television networks, movie studios and record labels to create the first on-line consumer content subscription products and services.. Joleen began her entrepreneurial career in the music industry, where she owned a successful artist management, talent booking, concert production, and special event business during the height of the Seattle "grunge" music explosion for clients including RKCNDY nightclub, Susan Silver and Kelly Curtis Management (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees), Media One, Monqui/SLA, The Pioneer Square Pub Club and The University of Washington.. Joleen also currently co-owns the Celtic Swell Irish Pub & Restaurant with her husband, located on Alki Beach in Seattle, Washington and CS Finnegan’s Irish House, located in Seattle’s famed Belltown neighborhood.
1201 3rd Ave Ste 3400 , Seattle , Washington 98101
Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking & Finance, Bankruptcy, Corporate , Employment & Labor , Real Estate , Transportation , Business, Business, Business, Business
John practices in the firm’s Banking Services, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy and Employment, Benefits & Labor Groups, and he has a strong transportation law practice. He frequently serves as an arbitrator on the Commercial Panel of the American Arbitration Association.. Recently John served on a panel of arbitrators in a $147 million commercial arbitration case. He has served as lead counsel for a trucking company in settling a wage-and-hour class action involving more than 150 owner-operators who alleged that they were employees.. John’s past experience includes obtaining a several- million dollar federal RICO civil judgment on behalf of a national client. He was also lead counsel in obtaining $2.9 million antitrust judgment in favor of a rural electric cooperative against Washington's largest electric utility.
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