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Rita Herrera Irvin Seattle King County Washington
Rita Herrera Irvin is a partner at McKinley Irvin, one of the largest and most exceptional family law firms in the Pacific Northwest region. She helped found the firm with Sands McKinley in 1991. Rita prides herself on being a tough advocate for her clients so that they can have the best possible chance of success. She takes the time to get to know her clients so that their goals can become her goals. Rita attended Seattle University School of Law, graduating with her J.D. in 1991. She is also a past board member with Centro Latino, a Trustee with the Tacoma Art Museum and Superior Court Famil...
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Bellevue
David Starks Bellevue King County Washington
David Starks is a partner at McKinley Irvin and practices out of the firm?s Seattle and Bellevue offices. Mr. Starks is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers as well as the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has been designated to the list of ?Top 100 Attorneys in Washington State,? Washington Super Lawyers®, rated 10/10 ?Superb? on Avvo, and was chosen by his peers to the list of The Best Lawyers in America©. David is driven by a passion for his client?s success and always fights to protect their best interests....
Bellevue
Molly Kenny Bellevue King County Washington
Molly Kenny, who grew up in the Midwest and has been licensed to practice law since 1980, has always had a passion for practicing law.Molly completed her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University. Upon graduating with honors, she attended law school at Ohio's University of Dayton, where she was an editor on the law review and published 2 articles. She received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree and graduated cum laude.Yearning for adventure, she moved west immediately upon graduation. After clerking for a federal judge in Portland, Oregon, she relocated to Seattle and worked at the Public...
Seattle
Brien Galbraith Seattle King County Washington
Brien Galbraith is an associate attorney with Integrative Family Law. Brien accomplishes his clients? goals by way of positive communication. By speaking with his clients regularly and in detail, Brien is able to understand their goals and set out on a path to achieve them. Brien is experienced in a number of different areas of family law, including custody, support, divorce, relocation, LGBT family law, and more....
Bellevue
Kelly LeBlanc Bellevue King County Washington
Kelly LeBlanc has been practicing law for over 33 years (21 in Washington). She has been admitted to practice in 5 jurisdictions and appeared on behalf of litigants at the state and federal level. She served as an Administrative Health Law Judge with the Department of Health and worked as a Guardian ad Litem in Pierce County many years before joining Envision Family Law Group as Senior Counsel. When the Court was faced with particularly difficult cases, Kelly was often designated to investigate and provide recommendations on how best to protect the interests of the child(ren) involved.As a GAL...
Seattle
Jennifer Payseno Seattle King County Washington
Jennifer is an experienced family law attorney and a role model to her peers. She has been practicing law since 1992 and has been with McKinley Irvin for over a decade....
Seattle
Yale Lewis III Seattle King County Washington
Mr. Lewis has been litigating family and Indian law matters since 2003. He tries up to three cases per year and represents three times that many at settlement conferences and meditations. He has been appointed a special master and sometimes conducts meditations. He also handles appeals.Mr. Lewis appears regularly in King County Superior Court and less frequently in other counties throughout the State. He is a member of the bar of most of the tribal courts in the State of Washington. He also practices in the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts. He is also a member...
Seattle
Jason S. Newcombe Seattle King County Washington
We are a dedicated team of legal professionals who are here to help you in your time of need and crisis. Our Washington State lawyers have the resources, the knowledge, and the experience to assist you with your legal matter in our practice areas....
Seattle
Kim Laree Schnuelle Seattle King County Washington
Kim Schnuelle is a Senior Associate at McKinley Irvin, one of the Pacific Northwest?s premier divorce and family law firms. Kim has a 10.0 ?Superb? rating on Avvo.com and has also been selected for the honor of Washington Super Lawyers®. Kim has a reputation for putting her clients? needs first and protecting what matters most to them. ?My clients know unequivocally that I am on their side,? says Kim. She is a member of the Washington State and King County Bar Associations, as well as a volunteer with Lifelong AIDS Alliance. Ms. Schnuelle was recently awarded with an A.V. Preeminent Rating by ...
Seattle
Sarah Elizabeth Hovland Seattle King County Washington
Sarah is a person (who happens to also be an attorney) fueled by compassion, curiosity, and the desire to see justice prevail. She started her path towards the legal profession at age 7 when she negotiated her first deal: to stay up past her bedtime. She did not win. Several decades later, she applied this and many other life lessons to the practice of law. In her spare time, you can find Sarah at the local dog park trying and failing to get her dog to fetch a tennis ball, playing on the water, listening to music, traveling around this beautiful state of ours, and sleeping....
Seattle
Danielle L. LaBelle Seattle King County Washington
Since the day that she became an attorney, Danielle LaBelle has focused her career on family law. Today, her goal is simple: to help families dealing in critical legal circumstances get the patient, caring, and professional guidance that they need. ?I want my clients to feel like their voice was heard and their interests were well-represented,? she said....
Seattle
Bruce Pruitt-Hamm Seattle King County Washington
Bruce Pruitt-Hamm is an attorney who can litigate, mediate or collaborate.Litigation- As an attorney with over 20 years experience, Bruce Pruitt-Hamm has been awarded the highest rating by the national lawyer-rating service, Avvo.com. Since graduating in 1994 from the University of Washington School of Law near the top of his class, he has litigated over one thousand cases in a wide variety of areas of the law. Bruce volunteers for the Washington State Bar Association?s ?Moderate Means Program?, offering reduced rates to people of moderate means. Bruce?s standard rate is $280/hr.; but he offer...
Bellevue
Stacey Lynne Smythe Bellevue King County Washington
Stacey Smythe joins Law Offices of Molly B. Kenny firm with over 24 years of legal experience, focusing in Family Law, Estate planning and Probate. Stacey Smythe graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a bachelor of arts in Business Administration and Sociology. She received her Juris Doctorate from University of Puget Sound School of Law in 1991, nka Seattle University School of Law. Ms. Smythe is committed to an open line of communication with her clients and recognizes the need to keep clients fully informed of all aspects of their case. Ms. Smythe takes an information gather...
Bellevue
Andrew May Bellevue King County Washington
Andrew has been a member of the Washington State Bar Association for over 15 years and is an associate attorney at Envision Family Law. For the past decade, he has exclusively practiced in the area of family law to include divorce and custody cases. His wide-ranging background of litigation experience is extensively combined with years of knowledge as a skilled mediator.Prior to entering law school, Andrew graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in political science. From there, he continued his journey into the legal profession at the University of Maryland School of Law, graduating at...
Seattle
Erin Blower Seattle King County Washington
Erin Blower feels fulfilled in practicing family law."Family law is a helping profession. I enjoy working closely with people to get them to a better place. It is personal and meaningful work."Erin understands how unsettling a family law case can be. She is sensitive to the emotional impact of the divorce process on both her clients and their families."These cases are not just legal or financial - these are times of huge transition and emotional upheaval in people?s lives. It?s important to work with an empathetic attorney who understands the whole picture."Erin guides clients in trying to fin...
Seattle
Sara S.J. Kim Seattle King County Washington
Sara's focus includes Family Law and Civil Litigation. Sara Kim is a passionate advocate who, in every case, is driven to seek justice for her clients. In private practice since 1995, Sara is a highly experienced family law attorney; she also has a thriving practice in the areas of personal injury and civil litigation.Keeping a client-centered focus has been fundamental to her success. As Sara explains, ?The people who come to me are under a lot of emotional pressure. The point is to make myself accessible: I believe that being there to listen is the only way to truly know what my clients want...
Seattle
Elizabeth Anne Hoffman Seattle King County Washington
Elizabeth A. Hoffman is an attorney at McKinley Irvin?s Bellevue and Seattle offices. She is adept in a number of areas of family law, including divorce, adoption, domestic violence, unmarried couples, LGBT family law, and more. Elizabeth has been distinguished as a Washington ?Rising Star? by Super Lawyers® (2014) due to her experience, reputation, and consistently exceptional client service. Elizabeth passionately advocates for her clients as well as the community at-large, particularly in the areas of domestic violence advocacy and the welfare of children....
Federal Way
Janal Rich Federal Way King County Washington
Ms. Rich is a Seattle transplant and a Boeing spouse. She is the first person in her family to go to college or to receive a professional degree.Ms. Rich has been a lawyer in the Puget Sound area since 2007. Ms. Rich's passion for helping families led her to becoming a Guardian ad Litem for King and Pierce Counties. Ms. Rich is a mother of two girls (and the guardian of three cats). When not helping her clients, she is busy being a mom. Ms. Rich can be found at her daughter's soccer games or the softball field....
Seattle
Mark Alexander Seattle King County Washington
Seattle Divorce Services is dedicated to conflict resolution in complex cases. Our Seattle divorce attorneys believe that our clients are best served by an approach that reduces fighting and allows for agreement building. In high-conflict cases, our Seattle divorce mediation lawyers work to avoid escalating hostility. This approach is designed to reduce the trauma of the divorce experience and prepare clients to move forward in life, also setting the stage for more successful co-parenting....
Seattle
Stacy Dyan Heard Seattle King County Washington
Stacy Heard is an attorney who practices exclusively family law in Seattle, Washington. Stacy has served clients for nearly 20 years in the Seattle area. Prior to and during law school, Stacy worked as a family law and civil litigation paralegal for 7 years. Her broad experience in family law includes cases involving complex financial issues, parenting plan/child custody issues, relocation, restraining orders, and child support issues. Prior to starting her own practice in 2005, she worked at a large Seattle civil litigation firm where she also gained valuable negotiation and litigation experi...
Seattle
Tatyana Gidirimski Seattle King County Washington
Tatyana Gidirimski has handled every aspect of family law, including complex divisions of property, maintenance, parenting plans (including modifications and child relocations), child support, division of business assets, committed intimate relationships, prosecution and defense of restraining orders, domestic violence protection orders, and preparation and negotiation of prenuptial and other relationship agreements. Tatyana is highly cognizant of the toll - both financial and psychological - a contested family law matter can take on the client and strives to achieve an out-of-court resolutio...
Bellevue
Jessica Terese Moore Bellevue King County Washington
Family law is a very active practice area. Though the people change and the law itself evolves, the need for capable, considerate legal representation remains constant. It is that kind of representation I want to provide.Jessica?s keen intellect and ability to narrow volumes of information into the most salient points makes her a highly persuasive and effective attorney. Her dedication to the practice of family law comes from a passion to connect with the lives of people who need help and provide them with capable and considerate representation....
Seattle
Mark Alan Brown Seattle King County Washington
Mark graduated from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) in 1974 with a B.A. in History. He then attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco, California) where he was the Articles Editor of Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, and graduated in 1977 with a Juris Doctor degree. Mark was an instructor at the University of Puget Sound, School of Law (now Seattle University School of Law) from 1977 to 1979 before entering private practice in Seattle. He is admitted to practice in California as well as Washington. He is also admitte...
Seattle
Gordon Wilson Wilcox Seattle King County Washington
Gordon W. Wilcox is a seasoned family law and divorce attorney from Seattle, WA. With more than 35 years of legal experience behind him, Gordon is confident in his ability to provide the exceptional legal guidance and advocacy that his clients need, when they need it the most. Over the years, Gordon has honed his legal skills to focus on complex divorce cases and litigation. He said, ?I chose family law because I am more interested in helping individuals than corporations. And I found I could help people in family law.? At the start of every case, Gordon analyzes all relevant facts and informa...
Seattle
Kate M Forrest Seattle King County Washington
I am passionate about being a strong advocate for clients during challenging times in their lives. I understand how important family is, and will work with you to protect your rights and interests without adding unnecessarily to the stress, animosity, and chaos that can affect a family going through a divorce, custody disagreement, or other legal action. My practice welcomes all clients, but has a particular emphasis on addressing the unique needs of survivors of domestic violence, military families, and LGBTQ families facing discrimination or extra hurdles. Happy times can be challenging ...
Bellevue
Douglas Wilson Miller Bellevue King County Washington
I am an attorney in private practice with the Law Offices of Molly B. Kenny in Bellevue, Washington, where I focus on family law and criminal defense. I am a graduate of Duke Law School Class of 1988, with over 25 years of legal experience....