ANTHONY A. RUSSO
RUSSO & GRAHAM
600 Stewart Street
Suite 1510
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel: 206-448-5905
Fax: 206-441-4743
tony@russograham.com
www.russograham.com
PERSONAL INJURY PLAIN TIFF: GENERAL
ALTERNATIVE DISPU TE RESOLU TION
PERSONAL INJURY PLAINTIFF: MEDICAL MALPRAC TICE
Anthony A. Russo is a skilled advocate practicing as a plaintiffs’
civil trial attorney for the firm of Russo & Graham. His practice
focuses primarily on victims of personal injury, medical
negligence, and product liability. Tony has expanded his practice
to mediation and arbitration services statewide. Tony serves
his clients and community as a dedicated lawyer, arbitrator,
hearing officer, youth tutor, and church leader. For years he has
been involved in legislative activity and believes in the power of
grassroots political action. He has written and lectured on the
subject of medical malpractice and was the principal author of
court rules establishing mandatory mediation in health care
claims. Tony’s experience and integrity have earned him the
respect of his clients and peers.
RONALD D. ALLEN
SOCIUS LAW GROUP, PLLC
601 Union Street
Suite 4950
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel: 206-838-9104
Fax: 206-838-9101
rallen@sociuslaw.com
www.sociuslaw.com
BUSINESS/CORPORATE
CONSTRUCTION/SURETY
REAL ES TATE
Ron Allen has practiced law in the areas of real estate,
environmental law, construction, and corporate and business
planning since his admission to the Washington State Bar
Association in 1990. Ron represents real estate developers,
construction companies, banks, title and liability insurance
companies, commercial landlords, and tenants in a broad
variety of real estate matters. Ron has represented buyers,
sellers, and developers of properties with known and suspected
environmental conditions when negotiating with regulatory
authorities, managing remediations, and allocating responsibility
among parties. He has also represented commercial lenders and
borrowers in the full range of project and permanent financing
and defiance transactions.
RICHARD A. MOORE
SOCIUS LAW GROUP, PLLC
601 Union Street
Suite 4950
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel: 206-838-9100
Fax: 206-838-9101
rmoore@sociuslaw.com
www.sociuslaw.com
REAL ES TATE
Rich counsels public and private clients in commercial leasing
and real property transactions. His practice emphasizes the
representation of landlords and tenants in complex retail, office,
industrial, telecommunications, life sciences, and other specialty
leases. Rich serves as leasing counsel to a number of the top
institutional landlords in the country, overseeing a portfolio
of over five million rentable square feet in the Puget Sound
region. He also represents several national, publicly traded
corporations in leasing key office, warehouse, data center and
telecommunications facilities across the country. Rich frequently
serves as chair and speaks at commercial leasing classes
and seminars.
LISH WHITSON
LISH WHITSON, PLLC
800 5th Avenue
Suite 4000
Seattle, WA 98104
Tel: 206-892-2164
Fax: 206-892-2246
lish.whitson@whitsonlaw.com
www.whitsonlaw.com
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
ALTERNATIVE DISPU TE RESOLU TION
PERSONAL INJURY PLAINTIFF: MEDICAL MALPRAC TICE
Lish Whitson has been a successful and respected trial attorney
for more than 35 years. Lish has been recognized for his
abilities by his election to the American College of Trial Lawyers,
Litigation Counsel of America, and the American Board of
Trial Advocates. His practice emphasizes medical malpractice,
catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and commercial disputes,
but has included most other areas of civil litigation. Lish has been
a successful mediator and arbitrator for more than 20 years.
He has also served as both a Trustee of the King County
Bar Association and a Governor of the Washington State Bar
Association. He has been named in the Super Lawyers list every
year from 2000 to the present.
J. PATRICK AYLWARD
JEFFERS, DANIELSON, SONN &
AYLWARD, P.S.
2600 Chester Kimm Road
PO Box 1688
Wenatchee, WA 98807
Tel: 509-662-3685
Fax: 509-662-2452
pata@jdsalaw.com
www.jdsalaw.com
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
REAL ESTATE
Pat Aylward graduated from Stanford University in 1973 and from
the University of Washington School of Law in 1976. His practice
is concentrated almost exclusively on real estate and land use
matters. He has been named one of the top real estate lawyers
in the State of Washington by Washington CEO magazine.
He has been actively involved with the Washington State Bar
Association (WSBA). He served on the Executive Council of the
WSBA Real Property Probate and Trust Section and chaired the
WSBA Legislative Committee. He served on the Limited Practice
Board. He received the WSBA President’s Award in 1996. He was
elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers in 1997.
In his leisure time he enjoys flying, racing sports cars, sno w skiing,
water skiing, hunting, fishing, and traveling.
THOMAS F. PETERSON
SOCIUS LAW GROUP, PLLC
601 Union Street
Suite 4950
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel: 206-838-9112
Fax: 206-838-9113
tpeterson@sociuslaw.com
www.sociuslaw.com
BUSINESS LI TIGATION
REAL ESTATE
Tom Peterson helps clients acquire, transfer, secure, and manage
real estate. Tom has practiced in real estate, land use, and
commercial litigation since 1986. He represents property owners,
lenders, developers, homeowners’ associations, title companies,
and real estate professionals in real estate transactions, title
claims, foreclosures, purchase-and-sale and lease disputes,
condominium matters, and land use issues. Mr. Peterson
negotiates and drafts all types of real estate agreements, has
successfully tried jury and non-jury trials in federal and state
courts, and has argued and won many appeals. He served as
a law clerk for Ninth Circuit Judge Thomas Tang and as a legal
intern for the U.S. Attorney. He is a graduate of Yale College
and the University of Oregon School of Law (Order of the Coif,
Law Review).
MARIA S. DIAMOND
DIAMONDMASSONG PLLC
1411 Fourth Avenue
Suite 765
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel: 206-445-1258
Fax: 206-445-1257
maria@diamondmassong.com
www.diamondmassong.com
PERSONAL INJURY PLAINTIFF: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
PERSONAL INJURY PLAINTIFF: GENERAL
PERSONAL INJURY PLAIN TIFF: PRODUC TS
Maria Diamond is a partner at DiamondMassong PLLC. Her
practice emphasizes medical negligence, pharmaceutical/
medical device, serious personal injury, and wrongful death
cases. She has tried multiple medical negligence cases to
seven-figure verdicts. She is a past President of the Washington
State Association for Justice and a current Board of Governors
member of the American Association for Justice. She served on
the WSBA’s Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Task Force
and the Washington State Jury Commission. She is a past co-chair
of the KCBA Judicial Screening Committee. Her professional
achievements include the National Order of Barristers, the
WSTLA President’s Award, the WSTLA Alvin Anderson Award,
and two-time recipient of AAJ’s Wiedemann-Wysocki Award and
its Distinguished Service Award.
BRIAN E. LAWLER
SOCIUS LAW GROUP, PLLC
601 Union Street
Suite 4950
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel: 206-838-9100
Fax: 206-838-9101
blawler@sociuslaw.com
www.sociuslaw.com
LAND USE/ZONING
ENVIRONMENTAL
REAL ESTATE
Real estate, land use, and environmental law are the primary
focus of Brian’s practice. His clients include private, public, and
non-profit entities. Brian has appeared before legislative bodies,
hearing examiners, state boards, superior courts in eastern
and western Washington, appellate courts in Washington, and
federal court. He is a frequent seminar speaker. Representative
cases: Ronald Shear et al v. King County __ Wn. App. ___ (No.
66432-8-1, April 2, 2012), Dash Point Village Association v. Exxon,
86 Wn. App. 596 (1997); J&B Development v. King County,
100 Wn. 2d 299 (1983); Association of Rural Residents v. Kitsap
County, 141 Wn. 2d 185 (1999). Brian has also been an adjunct
faculty member at the University of Washington Undergraduate
Foster School of Business. He graduated from Georgetown Law
Center. He attended Dartmouth College and UC Berkeley.
CARL J. CARLSON
CARLSON & DENNE TT, P.S.
1601 5th Avenue
Suite 2150
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel: 206-621-1111
Fax: 206-621-1151
carl@carlsonlaw.com
www.carlsondennettlaw.com
ESTATE & TRUST LITIGATION
BUSINESS LITIGATION
SECURITIES LI TIGATION
Carl Carlson is a trial lawyer and the founding principal of
Carlson & Dennett, P.S. While he handles other types of business
litigation, for over 20 years his firm has emphasized investor
litigation (representing investors, financial advisers, stockbrokers
and brokerage firms in FINRA arbitrations and securities-related
disputes), and trust and estate litigation. A graduate of Stanford
University and Stanford Law School, Mr. Carlson writes and
lectures extensively on trust and estate litigation and investor
litigation. He is a FINRA arbitrator, hearing customer claims
against stockbrokers and intra-industry disputes, and an active
member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association. He
has served a three-year term on the WSBA Board of Governors
and before that was on the King County Bar Association Board
of Trustees.
