SHERMAN SNOW - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Shareholder
- Shareholder Management Committee
Anne Cohen is a Shareholder at Betts Patterson Mines, where she has a multi-state practice that specializes in the defense of complex, multi-party litigation in an insurance defense context.
Anne's practice has included a broad range of issues: product liability (including engineered and construction products); the liability of contractors and developers; director and officer/partnership disputes; securities litigation; errors and omissions; as well as foreclosure, medical malpractice and cyberlaw. Anne has represented a wide variety of businesses across a broad spectrum of claims, including contract and tort-based claims, discrimination, harassment, non-compete and trade secret claims. Her practice has also included representation of international business entities in US-based litigation, as well as the defense of class-action lawsuits.
Anne routinely manages a team of lawyers and legal staff to address her clients' legal and business issues. The goal is always to provide a comprehensive and effective representation while striving for maximum value for legal services provided.
Anne graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law, where her focus was civil litigation. During law school, Anne externed for the Honorable Henry C. Breithaupt of the Oregon Tax Court, and for the Honorable Ann Aiken in District Court for the State of Oregon. Upon graduation, Anne clerked for the Honorable Lyle C. Velure. During the year she clerked, Judge Velure presided over more than 50 jury trials and heard the civil motion docket in Lane County.
Before law school, Anne worked in middle management, with experience in both retail management, the management of fitness/health clubs and food service management.
Anne frequently presents to businesses, insurance companies and trade organizations on a variety of issues. She is available for lunch-and-learn or continuing education presentations and is always open for questions.
Betts Patterson Mines has two primary shared core values: teamwork and superior legal work. Teamwork thrives in the commitment by individual attorneys to succeed as a group over the long term and in their support and promotion of individual colleagues. Superior quality is the substance of our professional work product, legal services and client relationships. Our collaborative process fosters the development of effective and efficient solutions that align with our client's specific objectives.
Corinna is a native Washingtonian and a graduate of the University of Washington where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology while minoring in Law, Societies, and Justice.
After undergraduate school, Corinna worked for a private family law firm for two years where she gained experience working with clients in crisis. This experience prompted her to seek a law degree, earning her Juris Doctor from Gonzaga University School of Law with honors. During law school she worked as a legal intern for the Council of State Governments Justice Center where she collaborated with the judiciary and legislature of several states to implement effective criminal policies. She also worked as an intern for the Seattle City Attorneys where she gained valuable court experience while also learning how to effectively research and respond to legal questions related to infractions.
After law school, Corinna's first post-law school job entailed working as a law clerk for the Chief Judge of the Maui Second Circuit in Wailuku. Returning to Washington, Corinna started working as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Clark County Washington where she gained experience as a litigator and trial attorney.
Prior to joining Betts Patterson Mines, Corinna worked for a boutique law firm specializing in complex insurance coverage matters, commercial litigation, personal injury claims, professional liability claims and alternative dispute resolution. She joins Betts Patterson & Mines, P.S. as an attorney in the commercial litigation and business and corporate law group.
Job Titles:
- Research Editor, Environmental Law
Cruz Turcott is an attorney in Betts, Patterson Mines' Portland Office. His practice focuses on civil litigation. Cruz obtained diverse litigation experience prior to joining Betts Patterson Mines, including representation of major financial institutions in mortgage and banking law matters at an AV rated multi-state law firm and representation of individuals in domestic relations disputes at a reputable Portland-area law firm. During law school, Cruz interned for Judge Ortega at the Oregon Court of Appeals. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked in hotel management where he was part of the opening team that launched operations for a handful of newly-constructed hotel properties.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director With Betts Patterson Mines
Daniel Syhre is a director with Betts Patterson Mines and practices insurance law, primarily representing insurance carriers in coverage and bad faith matters and advising insurers on coverage issues and claim resolution. Mr. Syhre also represents business clients in tort and intellectual property disputes. His previous experience includes practicing as a public defender in Pierce County, Washington.
Danielle McKenzie is an attorney in the insurance coverage practice group of Betts Patterson Mines. Danielle represents insurance companies in coverage and extra-contractual matters, including defending bad faith and negligence claims, and Consumer Protection Act and Insurance Fair Conduct Act violations. Danielle also represents insurers on claims involving employment practices liability, construction defects, and related duties of defense and indemnification against claims made under commercial liability policies.
Mr. Eckberg advises engineering, architectural, geotechnical and environmental firms, contractors and owners and operators on corporate law matters, including ownership transition, strategic partnering and structuring and mergers and acquisitions. He also assists in drafting and negotiating commercial transactions including purchase and sale agreements, merger agreements, stock exchange agreements, liability transfer agreements, construction and services contracts and leasing arrangements. He has been practicing corporate law for over 30 years.
After graduating from the University of Houston Law Center, Dawna began her career in civil litigation in Dallas, Texas in 1995. She enjoys working a wide variety of cases, including personal injury, wrongful death, breach of contract, construction defect, product liability, defamation and class action law suits. Dawna has successfully litigated auto accidents, pharmacology claims, class actions and various other large losses involving complex issues. Dawna provides an aggressive and effective defense for her clients, whether they are individuals or large companies.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel in the Seattle Office of Betts Patterson Mines
Eden Goldman is Of Counsel in the Seattle office of Betts Patterson Mines. Eden's practice encompasses a wide variety of complex civil matters, primarily focusing on the defense of corporate entities, professionals, and individuals involved in personal injury litigation and construction-related transactions and litigation. Eden has extensive experience handling wrongful death and catastrophic bodily injury and property damage claims arising from motor vehicle accidents and job site, product liability, and premises liability incidents. She also specializes in the defense of contractors, owners, and developers in construction defect disputes. Eden has successfully defended clients before the Washington State Court of Appeals and Federal and Superior Courts throughout Washington and California.
Eden obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from the University of Maryland and worked as a clerk at a civil litigation firm in Seattle before attending law school. She earned her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law and received Pro Bono Service Recognition for her work with the California Innocence Project and Public Counsel, the nation's largest pro bono law firm. While in law school, Eden gained experience interning and clerking with several law firms and non-profit agencies, as a member of the Moot Court Associate Board, and as an Executive Editor of the International Law Journal.
Prior to joining Betts Patterson Mines, Eden practiced as an attorney at a civil litigation firm in San Diego and an insurance defense firm in Seattle. At these firms, she helped to obtain early resolution for her clients through successful summary judgment motions and settlement negotiations.
Erik was born and raised in Washington state and is a graduate of the University of Oregon where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting while minoring in Economics.
After undergraduate, Erik worked for a small aviation law firm for three years as a transaction coordinator. This law firm specialized in structuring aircraft transactions. Erik counseled clients through the lifecycle of aircraft ownership by advising c-level executives on transactions, taxes and Federal Aviation Administration regulations. This experience inspired Erik to seek a law degree. Erik earned his Juris Doctor from Seattle University with honors.
During law school, Erik volunteered at a low-income tax clinic and worked as a law clerk at a construction litigation firm. During his time at the tax clinic, Erik represented numerous low-income individuals needing assistance petitioning the IRS. While at the construction litigation firm, Erik prepared legal documents and gained experience working with the court system.
Prior to joining Betts Patterson & Mines, Erik worked for a law firm specializing in complex insurance coverage litigation, commercial litigation defense, personal injury claims and professional liability claims. Erik helped obtain early resolution for his clients through successful summary judgment motions and settlement negotiations. Erik joins Betts Patterson & Mines as an attorney in the commercial litigation and business and corporate law group.
James represents businesses in "bet the company" cases. According to a law partner, "clients want James on the field when the game is on the line." Like a seasoned quarterback, James focuses narrowly on the goal line. James calls plays that are carefully designed to score quickly and efficiently, mindfully respecting his clients' budget and goals. James uses his years of experience in court to call the right plays at the right time.
James is a member of the Design Professionals Industry Group, a multi-disciplinary team of firm attorneys who help clients achieve their goals, mitigate risk, and maximize opportunities throughout their business life cycle.
James joined Betts Patterson Mines in 1980. Since then he has counseled hundreds of clients in a diverse array of complex business disputes including trade secrets, securities, estate, and consumer class action cases. He has represented manufacturers, engineers, distributors, banks, general contractors, developers, insurance brokers, and technology companies. James is a seasoned litigator whose notable engagements include:
Defending a Texas-based Fortune 100 manufacturing conglomerate in a suit brought by the largest construction contractor in the Pacific Northwest. The dispute involved a multi-million-dollar contract for the sale of massive diesel generator sets that were specially designed to power an Air Force radar station on a remote Aleutian island. The contractor sued the manufacturer for delaying the project. The manufacturer recovered $2.4 million on its counterclaim.
Representing an automobile manufacturer that purchased 12,000 motor vehicle engines in Japan for assembly in Windsor, Ontario. The engines were worth $13 million. They had been shipped from Japan to Washington for rail transport to Windsor and were delayed at Sea-Land's Tacoma dock due to a major West Coast Teamsters strike. Because the delay threatened to shut down the manufacturer's Windsor minivan plant, the manufacturer brought an emergency replevin action. The engines were released from Sea-Land's dock within 24 hours.
Defending the leading manufacturer of digital multimeters in Europe against color-combination-related trade dress claims brought by the largest manufacturer of digital multimeters in the U.S. The U.S. manufacturer claimed that the French manufacturer infringed trademark rights that it had developed in its contrasting yellow and dark color scheme. The case settled on the eve of trial. The French manufacturer acquiesced in the U.S. manufacturer's trademark rights in the U.S. in exchange for a perpetual, paid up license that allowed it to continue to use its traditional corporate colors on key product lines.
Defending hotel owners against securities fraud, racketeering, breach of fiduciary duty, and wrongful withholding of wages claims arising out of a troubled hotel acquisition. The defense was seller's remorse-that is, that the plaintiff withdrew from the partnership because he could not tolerate the risk. The plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction was denied, and the plaintiff's lis pendens was quashed. The jury returned a defense verdict after deliberating for only two hours following a two week jury trial.
Representing a decedent's former business partner in a struggle with the decedent's estate for control of a corporation. The corporation owned a casino. Initially, the partner won a preliminary injunction blocking an estate-backed special shareholders meeting for the purpose of removing the corporation's board and halting a 3,333% rent increase. The partner also won summary judgments thwarting the estate's infringing use of the casino's trademark and awarding the corporation $3 million on its counterclaim.
Representing a computer network consulting company in a suit against a former employee who secretly concluded an independent contract with a major customer by presenting proprietary technical information as his own. Following a one-week trial in federal court, an Oregon jury returned a verdict for compensatory and punitive damages for violations of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
Representing an Alaska corporation in a suit to recover losses it suffered due to theft and mismanagement by the manager of its retail stores and to remove a member of its board of directors who covered up the fraud. Following a one-week jury trial in Alaska Superior Court, the retailer recovered a judgment for compensatory and punitive damages against the former manager and the director. The court also barred the director from re-election to the board pursuant to Alaska Stat. ยง 10.06.463.
In recent years, James has also developed a substantial mid-market transactional practice that includes business planning, estate planning, and commercial real estate. He works with clients at every stage of the business life cycle, offering clients advice from "cradle to grave."
James is admitted to practice in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Idaho. He is rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" each year from 2003-2021. James served as the firm's managing partner for 15 years. He graduated from University of Oregon with a B.S. in Economics in 1977 and received his J.D. from University of Washington in 1980.
James is the firm's representative at LAWorld. LAWorld is a network of 57 mid-sized law firms covering most of the major commercial centers around the world, with more than 1350 lawyers in 100 cities. LAWorld's purpose is to provide its members' clients with instant access to quality legal advice anywhere in the world.
James is a frequent writer and speaker in the legal community. His topics include developments in antitrust law that impact intellectual property licensing transactions and law firm organizational health.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director With Betts Patterson Mines
Jeremy R. Schulze is a Director with Betts Patterson Mines, where he focuses his practice on insurance coverage litigation. Schulze has extensive experience in insurance coverage litigation and representing major commercial insurers in bad faith, environmental, construction defect, and mass tort insurance coverage litigation. Prior to joining Betts Patterson & Mines, Schulze received his J.D., with honors, from the University of Michigan in 2004 where he was the Articles Editor for the Michigan Journal of Law Reform and Best Oralist in the Campbell Moot Court Competition. He clerked for the Hon. Mona K. Majzoub in the U.S. District court for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2004-2006. From 2006 to 2013 Schulze worked for Michaels & May, P.C., specializing in insurance coverage litigation, commercial litigation, and intellectual property matters.
Joe Hampton is an attorney with Betts Patterson Mines, and is a member of the Insurance Coverage Practice Group. His practice consists primarily of counseling and representing insurance carriers in coverage and extra-contractual matters, in states throughout the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Hampton's experience includes analysis, advising, trials and appeals on a wide variety of insurance coverages and issues.
Larry Gottlieb is a shareholder at Betts Patterson Mines. He has been practicing law in the Seattle area since 1991, and from 2010 to 2022 was the firm's Managing Shareholder. Specializing in insurance coverage law, Mr. Gottlieb works primarily for the insurance industry throughout the Pacific Northwest as an advisor, trial lawyer, and appellate advocate in the areas of first-party coverage, general liability coverage, professional liability coverage, and extra-contractual liability claims. He also represents policyholders in the defense of various types of complex liability and damages claims. Mr. Gottlieb recently first-chaired the first virtual trial in Oregon, which resulted in a judgment of over $22 million being entered for his clients.
Mr. Wernecke's practice covers estate planning, succession planning for closely held business, real estate and investment entities, compensation and retirement arrangements, probate, trust creation and administration, individual, estate and entity taxation, guardianships, and certain aspects of international trade.
He was co-counsel of a successful Washington Supreme Court case upholding the application of the equal protection clause to state taxes and has lectured at Golden Gate University in taxation of S Corporations, partnerships and estates.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel in the Seattle Office of Betts Patterson Mines
Luisa Taddeo is Of Counsel in the Seattle office of Betts Patterson Mines where she focuses her practice on insurance coverage litigation. Ms. Taddeo has extensive experience in insurance coverage litigation and has represented insurers in coverage disputes related to first-party property claims and third-party liability claims. She has also advised insurers on issues related to the duty to defend and the duty to indemnify, including defending insurers in litigation involving allegations of bad faith. Ms. Taddeo has spoken at continuing education seminars and written articles related to her insurance coverage practice.
Prior to joining Betts Patterson Mines, Ms. Taddeo was a senior associate for a premier Pacific Northwest law firm handling construction defect, work place injury, wrongful death, automobile, trucking, premise liability and fire loss cases. She also has worked for a large national firm where she assisted with e-discovery matters for a large-scale multi-million dollar litigation. Before relocating to Seattle, Ms. Taddeo earned her J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where she served as a Vice President of the Student Bar Association and was an active member of her law school's trial advocacy team. Ms. Taddeo is currently an active member of the board of directors of the South Lake Union Chamber of Commerce, where she helps connect people and organizations to help foster strategic relationships and opportunities.
Job Titles:
- Managing Shareholder Member, Management Committee
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director With Betts Patterson Mines
Mark Mills is a director with Betts Patterson Mines where he practices in the Insurance Coverage Practice Group. Practicing for over 30 years, he has advised insurers on coverage issues involving commercial general liability, commercial property, inland marine, commercial auto, homeowners, and personal auto policies. He has tried multiple cases to verdict in both coverage and defense contexts. He now advises insurers on coverage questions and represents them in related litigation under commercial general liability and related coverages, such as director and officer, employment practices, and management protection.
Matthew Munson is a shareholder with Betts Patterson Mines, where his practice emphasizes insurance defense and insurance coverage matters. Before joining BPM, Matthew was a shareholder at Thorsrud Cane & Paulich, a firm that focused on litigation and trial work for insurance carriers, their insureds, and for commercial and business clients. He was named a Washington State "Rising Star" for 2009-2011 by Super Lawyers. Matthew earned his B.A. from Pomona College in 1998 and his J.D., with honors, from University of Washington in 2001, where he was a Managing Editor of the Washington Law Review.
Nancy McKinley was raised on a homestead in Ninilchik, Alaska. After graduating from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks in 1968, she taught Junior High School Spanish. In 1977, Nancy graduated from California Western School of Law in San Diego. Nancy has the experience and wisdom to resolve the most complex and emotional cases. She routinely handles matters with complex injuries and has successfully tried numerous cases throughout the state of Washington. Her reputation in the legal community and the insurance industry for both fairness and skill is well deserved.
Natasha Khachatourians is an attorney with Betts Patterson Mines and a member of the Insurance Defense Practice group. Ms. Khachatourians focuses her practice on complex civil litigation, including the defense of businesses and individuals against a variety of personal injury and property damage lawsuits, ranging from premises liability and construction defects to wrongful death.
Ms. Khachatourians gained experience working with national and regional insurance defense firms. She also has experience representing creditors' rights related to consumer debts, breaches of contract, and bankruptcy.
Nicole Brodie Jackson focuses her practice in the areas of transportation law, employment law, and insurance defense litigation, including motor vehicle liability. Ms. Jackson also has substantial experience in high profile general liability defense matters, with an emphasis on complex multi-party litigation. Her clients have included financial institutions, communities of faith, water districts, and healthcare providers involving various claims for collection, bankruptcy, auto deficiency, insurance subrogation, personal injury, and sexual abuse. Ms. Jackson's litigation experience includes intensive motion practice and trial work at all levels of the state court system, as well as experience in appellate, federal, and bankruptcy practice.
Job Titles:
- Counsel in the Seattle Office of Betts Patterson & Mines
Rebecca Morris is Of Counsel in the Seattle office of Betts Patterson & Mines, P.S. Rebecca focuses her practice on complex civil litigation matters. Her cases have involved claims of catastrophic injury, wrongful death, product liability, premises & construction liability, and major property damage. Rebecca has represented individuals, professionals, and corporate entities in all phases of litigation including discovery, motion practice, trials/arbitrations, and appeals.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel With Betts Patterson Mines
Patrick M. Paulich is Of Counsel with Betts Patterson Mines where he practices insurance coverage, environmental law, construction law, product liability and general insurance defense. Prior to joining BPM, Patrick was President and Managing Shareholder at Thorsrud Cane & Paulich in Seattle from 1988 until 2015. From 1980 until 1988, he was an attorney at the Seattle law firm Tewell, Thorpe & Findlay.
Patrick is rated "AV Preeminent," the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards, by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Washington State "Super Lawyer" from 2003 through 2021 by Super Lawyers Magazine. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Washington in 1976 and his J.D. from the University of Washington in 1980.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Bud of Counsel
Bud Fallon was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He obtained a B.A. degree in finance and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Washington School of Law. Bud worked his way through law school as an independent insurance adjuster which led to the start of his legal career in the Safeco home office legal department in 1969. The focus of Bud's work is insurance defense and insurance coverage. He is a trial attorney with over forty years of courtroom experience, but takes the most pride in resolving legal disputes with honesty and goodwill.
Rebecca Morris is Of Counsel in the Seattle office of Betts Patterson & Mines, P.S. Rebecca focuses her practice on complex civil litigation matters. Her cases have involved claims of catastrophic injury, wrongful death, product liability, premises & construction liability, and major property damage. Rebecca has represented individuals, professionals, and corporate entities in all phases of litigation including discovery, motion practice, trials/arbitrations, and appeals.
Karen Bamberger is a shareholder with close to thirty years of litigation experience. Her practice is primarily in the areas of product liability and complex litigation. Her litigation experience spans the breadth of defending medical drug and device manufacturers in class actions and in multidistrict litigation, as well as defending manufacturers and sellers of consumer products, to defending motor vehicle drivers in the context of both passenger and commercial vehicle accidents, resulting in the full range of personal injury, including catastrophic injury, brain injury and wrongful death cases, to defending landowners in a wide variety of premises liability cases, running the gamut from simple slip and falls to over service of alcohol to timber trespass to serious construction site injury cases. Her experience also includes a wide variety of defense of other types of claims, including food contamination cases, pesticide application cases and defamation and civil rights cases.
Ms. Bamberger has defended manufacturers of a wide spectrum of commercial products as well as those intended for consumer use, including glass panels, heating pads, manway doors to wine tanks, exercise equipment, conveyor machinery, powered industrial trucks (e.g., forklifts, tugs), industrial baby slings, scaffolding, ladders, wooden bleachers, bicycle component parts and paper winding machinery.
Ms. Bamberger's product liability litigation experience also includes the defense of manufacturers of pedicle screws, inflatable penile prostheses, latex gloves, and prescription weight-loss supplements and other prescription medications. She has litigated "anxiety" cases in which plaintiffs claimed they were concerned about the possible future failure of an implanted heart valve. She has also been involved in the so-called "toxic mold" litigation, where occupants of a manufactured home claimed the presence of stachybotrus mold. Her defense experience extends to cases alleging chemical sensitization to formaldehyde by manufactured home occupants, as well as to cases involving claims of exposure to sulfur dioxide and to fumes from copier machines and incorrect application of pesticides leading to crop failures.
Ms. Bamberger recently obtained a defense verdict in a King County Superior Court case alleging that her client, a funeral home, had failed to properly embalm a body. The body was exhumed approximately seventeen months after the initial burial for a second autopsy performed by the well-known forensic pathologist, Werner Spitz, M.D., who has been involved in a variety of high profile cases, including, most recently, JonBenet Ramsey. The defense rebutted Dr. Sptiz's testimony with an expert from the University of Tennessee's Anthropological Research Facility (colloquially known as "The Body Farm"). The jury deliberated for less than an hour. The last demand prior to trial was $2,000,000.
Adding to her resume of somewhat unusual fact patterns, Ms. Bamberger also recently prevailed in the Washington Court of Appeals where she defended a tattoo artist who allegedly caused a client to contract an infection by using contaminated ink. In this case of first impression, Ms. Bamberger was successful in convincing the Court of Appeals that based on a review and interpretation of the regulations pertaining to body artists, as well as the Washington statute pertaining to negligence per se, RCW 5.40.050, that her client complied with all state regulations and that the tattoo artist could not be held liable as a matter of law.
She also tried a class action suit to verdict in Pierce County, defending a water system supplier against claims that water supplied to a residential development was contaminated by copper piping.
In the context of personal injury cases, Ms. Bamberger has tried wrongful death cases, as well as serious physical injury claims on behalf of defendants, through trial. She is adept at resolving cases in all phases, whether that is pre-suit, through mediation or through trial, both bench and jury.
In the course of her practice, she has litigated cases in almost half of the counties in Washington State: Asotin, Benton, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Mason, Pierce, San Juan, Snohomish, Skagit, Spokane, Thurston, Whatcom, and Yakima Counties, as well as the U.S. District Courts of Alaska and the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Bamberger also has argued cases before the Washington Court of Appeals, Divisions I and II.
She serves as an arbitrator in mandatory arbitration cases and has been appointed to serve as an arbitrator on three-member arbitration panels.
Job Titles:
- Intellectual Property Moot Court Team Member
Sean Paulich's practice emphasizes insurance coverage, insurance defense, business transaction, and design professional liability matters. He is a member of the firm's Insurance Coverage, Business & Corporate, and Design Professionals groups.
Mr. Paulich earned his B.A. in History from the University of Washington and his J.D. from Seattle University School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Paulich worked for KIRO radio, Amazon.com, and the King County Bar Association. While in law school, Mr. Paulich worked for the Washington State Bar Association's Volunteer Legal Services and Catholic Community Services' Legal Action Center.
In his free time, Mr. Paulich enjoys music and songwriting. He has performed live at many Seattle venues. Mr. Paulich also enjoys cycling, playing soccer, and cheering on Seattle's home team Sounders, Mariners, and Seahawks.
Job Titles:
- Managing Shareholder
- Managing Shareholder Member, Management Committee
Terry Harvey brings significant experience to Betts Patterson Mines. After serving in the United States military, Terry obtained in B.A. in Finance from the University of North Texas in 1972. He then began working for Safeco Insurance Company as an adjuster. He rose to an area claims manager before returning to school at Pepperdine University where he obtained his law degree in 1978. After graduation, he returned to Safeco where he served as a trial attorney and senior attorney and handled the training and supervision of trial attorneys and legal staff, as well as being involved in litigation matters in numerous state courts. Terry has also served as a Judge Pro Temp and arbitrator in the state of Washington for the past 20 years. Terry brings a wealth of knowledge to the firm regarding insurance claims handling and trial advocacy. In addition to advising young attorneys on the intricacies of the law, Terry enjoys baseball, world travel and the use of his Cantonese language skills.