Litigation cases in Seattle typically take between 6 and 30 months to resolve, depending on complexity, court schedules, and settlement likelihood.
Seattle Court Backlog
The number of pending litigation cases in Seattle courts generally ranges from 300 to 1,200, reflecting both active filings and ongoing matters.
Litigation Seattle Filing Volume
Seattle courts see an estimated 100 to 250 new litigation cases filed per month, based on recent public court data.
Litigation Case Outcomes
Approximately 30% of disputes resolve before formal litigation, 45% after filing but before trial, and around 15% proceed to trial with variable outcomes.
Cairncross & Hempelmann, PS , Seattle , Washington 98104
Practice Areas: Litigation, Employment & Labor
I provide strategic and guided litigation services and dispute resolution assistance to a wide range of companies and individuals. My practice focuses on disputes of all types, including those in receiverships and commercial bankruptcies. My litigation experience includes drafting motions, briefs, memoranda and agreements; settlement negotiations; discovery management; oral argument; trial; and solo small case management. In addition, I have extensive experience in representing creditors, debtors, and receivers in financially complex state court receiverships. In my spare time, I love spending time with my family, hiking in Washington’s beautiful backcountry, cooking (and eating), and cheering on my beloved Huskies.
Jehiel Baer is a litigation attorney. He is a member of the Litigation and Trial Practice and the Emerging Companies Practice. His practice focuses primarily on complex commercial litigation.. Jehiel has represented individual business owners, professionals, emerging companies, and Fortune 500 companies on matters including corporate governance, contract disputes, legal malpractice defense, commercial real estate, employment and wrongful termination, insurance bad-faith defense, and securities fraud. Jehiel specializes in the field of intellectual property litigation and has handled a wide range of copyright and trademark issues.. Jehiel often provides a litigator’s perspective to the Emerging Companies Practice, leveraging his litigation experience to better protect clients from future disputes. He assists with negotiating transactions, drafting license agreements, and preparing terms of use by translating an evolving judicial landscape into meaningful and enforceable contracts. Jehiel is actively involved in protecting emerging companies’ intellectual property, both by defending clients’ copyright and trademark registrations in the face of opposition, and by enforcing clients’ intellectual property rights against infringement.. Prior to joining McNaul Ebel in 2014, Jehiel served as assistant counsel for both the New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services and the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control, where he advised on public procurement contracts, employment law, ethics, and regulatory compliance.. Jehiel earned his JD from New York University School of Law. While in law school, he served as a law clerk with the United States Attorney’s Offices for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Eastern District of New York, and District of Maryland. He was a student advocate with the Immigration Law Unit of the Legal Aid Society and a teaching assistant to New York University president John Sexton. Jehiel was also a member of the Moot Court Board, serving as Associate Casebook Editor for the New York University Moot Court Casebook.. Jehiel regularly provides pro bono legal services to active and reserve duty service members and veterans through the ABA Military Pro Bono Project. An avid outdoorsman, he enjoys backpacking with his wife and greyhound, as well as touring the Pacific Northwest on his motorcycle.
1417 31st Avenue South , Seattle , Washington 98144
Practice Areas: Real Estate, Litigation, Commercial Real Estate, Business, Personal Injury
I've been practicing law in the greater Seattle area for over 25 years, assisting businesses and individuals alike with their legal needs. My practice covers all aspects of complex civil litigation, and I have especially enjoyed working on matters involving commercial and residential real estate. This aspect of my practice includes the acquisition and leasing of real property; partnership and entity disputes among co-owners; boundary and development disputes among adjacent landowners; creation and litigation of easements and covenants; landlord/tenant issues; and workouts on problem properties. Clients include individuals and families, many of the malls and property management companies in the Puget Sound region, and several national REITS and institutional owners of industrial property in the SODO, Eastside, and Tukwila neighborhoods, as well as King, Pierce and Kitsap counties.
Jeffrey M. Dore is an attorney at Betts, Patterson, & Mines, P.S. who focuses his practice on complex civil litigation. Before joining Betts, Patterson, & Mines, Jeff defended clients ranging from taxi-cab drivers and trucking companies in personal injury matters to general contractors, subcontractors, and homeowners’ association board members in construction defect disputes.
1201 3rd Ave Ste 22-120 , Seattle , Washington 98101
Practice Areas: Litigation
Jeff was born and raised in Garland, TX and has been around the world twenty times without losing his Texas roots. At age 22, he joined the Army and was stationed at Ft. Stewart, GA where he served as a combat medic in the 3rd Infantry Division. Later, he obtained his first law degree from the University of South Africa and bought a house with his beautiful wife Nicole. Today, he lives on Mercer Island with his family. He is fanatical about the game of chess and loves Shakespeare, the Simpsons, and Linux.
111 Queen Anne Ave N Ste 510 , Seattle , Washington 98109
Practice Areas: Litigation
For more than four decades, Jeffery M. Campiche has successfully represented people severely injured on maritime vessels, in motor vehicle accidents, by unsafe or defective products, and negligent medical providers. Jeff is recognized by his peers for aggressively and successfully representing clients with difficult, complex cases, while maintaining a high degree of professional conduct. Recognized in “Seattle’s Top Lawyers,” Seattle Met Magazine (2010), Jeff Campiche earned ’s “highest possible rating in both legal ability & ethical standards,” and earned Martindale Hubbell’s “Highest Possible 15 Year – Peer Rating in Legal Ability and Ethical Standards – 1996-2011.”. Jeffery has served as the designated counsel for sailors of the Inland Boatmen’s Union of the Pacific, and has represented a number of Masters, Mates and Pilots, and other maritime workers who were seriously or fatally injured. A native of Ilwaco, Washington, the coastal fishing village located at the mouth of the Columbia River, Jeff has practiced law throughout Washington for over 40 years. He was the County Prosecutor of Pacific County from1978-1986.. Jeffery Campiche is licensed to practice in State and Federal Courts in Washington, and has appeared in courtrooms as distant as Alaska, Hawaii, California and New Jersey. He has successfully sued some of the largest manufacturers of defective products in the country which were represented by the nation’s largest insurance companies and law firms.. Civil Rights cases, including the improper use of deadly force, are important in efforts which can instigate important and needed change. Attorney Jeff Campiche represented the family of a young, unarmed high school student named Tommy Le, who was shot in the back and killed by a King County Sheriff’s officer. A cover up ensued by the department and its media relations managers, including a fabricated story that the student had a knife and lunged at the officer. The young man had no knife and was running away from the officer who, rather than deescalating the situation, pointed his gun at him. Outraged citizens and civil rights groups in Western Washington demanded justice. Seattle’s large Asian community and news editors also demanded accountability and change within the King County Sheriff’s department. In May of 2021, the lawsuit was settled by King County for $5 Million. The case was noted as one of the top news stories in the press over 3 and a half years – from the shooting in 2017 until the settlement in 2021.. Campiche ArnoldGood People.Great Lawyers.(And Exceptional Staff!)
Jeff Sbaih is a partner at Wilson Smith Cochran Dickerson. He specializes in complex legal disputes involving product liability, professional liability, transportation liability, premises liability, and business torts across the West Coast. Jeff is also the firm’s lead subrogation lawyer with a successful track record of recovering damages for substantial losses on behalf of insurers and their insureds across the country. He also has experiencing handling class action and mass tort cases as well as MDL matters. Outside the courtroom, Jeff enjoys working collaboratively with his clients to pragmatically address their legal and regulatory issues and to provide tactical and strategic legal advice to clients about their risks and interests in challenging and ambiguous situations. Jeff was recently named to as a “Top 40 Lawyer Under 40”, is a member of several Washington State Bar Associations standing committees, and is a board member of multiple non-profit organizations in the Seattle area.
Jeff is an Associate Attorney in the Seattle office of GLP Attorneys and a member of the firm's Motions and Appellate Practice Department. Jeff received his Juris Doctor from Lewis and Clark Law School in May 2008 where he was a recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship. While in law school, he received the Outstanding Client Advocacy Award from the Lewis and Clark Legal Clinic for his work representing low-income taxpayers in matters before the Internal Revenue Service. While part of the Clinic, Jeff and another student attorney prevailed at trial helping a low-income client avoid eviction from public housing.. Jeff also received his LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Washington School of Law in March 2010.. After law school, Jeff was an Associate Attorney with a plaintiff’s law firm in Bellevue focusing on commercial litigation where he managed hundreds of cases and regularly appeared and successfully argued dispositive motions in courts across Washington State.. Prior to joining GLP Attorneys, Jeff was a Senior Attorney with Moss Adams, LLP in Seattle. In this position he represented clients in hearings and appeals in front of the Internal Revenue Service and state tax boards.. Jeff has also done pro bono work as a volunteer attorney with the University of Washington Federal Tax Clinic, where he represented clients in administrative cases and collection matters before the Internal Revenue Service.. Jeff is a diehard Washington Huskies fan and in his free time he enjoys hiking, cooking, and spending time with his wife, daughter, and bulldog Stella.
An accomplished and practical litigator, Jason works to resolve clients’ legal problems from beginning to end. He applies creative problem-solving and real world analysis to identify and maximize cost-effective and favorable resolutions. Litigation for Jason includes advising clients on how to avoid litigation, and he counsels clients on pre-litigation strategies and dispute resolution, and helps them identify issues and analyze the risk of alternative courses of action.
Practice Areas: Class Actions, Corporate , Environmental , Securities , Toxic Substances, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation
Janissa practices complex civil litigation, including securities, minority shareholder oppression, shareholder derivative, class action, and commercial litigation. She has litigated matters involving complex financial instruments including structured products, principal protected notes, and derivatives, such as interest rate swaps. Janissa has significant trial experience with commercial cases involving claims of fraud, securities fraud, professional malpractice, consumer protection violations, and breach of contract.. Janissa's practice also includes trust, estate, and fiduciary duty litigation in which she has represented charitable and individual beneficiaries and individual fiduciaries. She has also litigated property damage and hazardous waste issues in cases involving contaminated sites, including the ASARCO Tacoma Smelter and the Tacoma Landfill Superfund sites, and has obtained favorable settlements for plaintiffs exposed to uncontrolled asbestos releases.. Janissa is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has received an "AV" Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating for demonstrating the highest level of legal skill and integrity.. Before entering private practice, Janissa was a law clerk to the Honorable Eugene A. Wright, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and a television news reporter and anchor.
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