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Susan Lehr is a Seattle-based attorney who focuses on business transactions, real estate development, corporate law, and tax matters. She advises clients on business formation, financing, and transactional strategy across a range of industries. Susan has extensive experience handling mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financings, and institutional transactions. She also represents international clients in cross-border business planning, transactions, and operational ...

Michael Rosenberger is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation. Michael, who practices law in Seattle, Washington, has been recognized since 2017. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Michael is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jennifer Payseno is a partner at McKinley Irvin with more than 30 years of experience practicing family law. She represents clients in a wide range of matters, including divorce, child custody, child support, relocation, and complex, high-asset cases involving closely held businesses and substantial financial assets. Known for her thoughtful and strategic approach, Jennifer combines meticulous preparation with strong courtroom advocacy and practical problem-solving. Her practice is grounded i...

Mark Arend, a partner at McKinley Irvin, is an experienced family law attorney recognized for strategic advocacy, practical judgment, and a client-focused approach. He handles divorce, child custody and support, mediation, relocation, and complex divorce cases involving business interests, professionals, and military families. Clients and colleagues value Mark for his calm demeanor, responsiveness, and commitment to integrity throughout the legal process. He is known for balancing compassiona...

Nate Roberts is a trial lawyer who represents real, everyday people as they work to hold corporations and government accountable. His primary focus is on the litigation and trial of complex personal injury and wrongful death claims. Over the course of his career, he has successfully tried a wide variety of major cases in both state and federal court, resulting in seven-figure and eight-figure verdicts in the Superior Courts of King, Pierce, and Spokane Counties, as well as U.S. District Court...

Anne Lawler has extensive experience representing owners, landlords, developers, lenders and business owners in a wide variety of transactions involving real property. In that capacity, she has prepared purchase and sale agreements; exchange agreements; commercial, retail, office & industrial leases; commercial loan documents; opinion letters; organizational documents for limited liability companies, corporations, partnerships and tenancies in common; easements; development agreements wit...

BACKGROUND Karl Hermanns' practice focuses on pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent matters, emphasizing strategic management of patent portfolios, early-stage company counseling, investment due diligence, and competitive patent analysis. He graduated with both a B.S. and an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Washington and received his J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law. EXPERIENCE Karl was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Washington School of Law and the Uni...

Rod’s practice focuses on labor and employment law and involves litigation, counseling, training, and negotiating. Rod has extensive experience defending both public- and private-sector employers in discrimination, wrongful discharge, and unpaid wage cases in state and federal courts. He has also represented public and private employers in union organizing campaigns, representation proceedings, unfair labor practice proceedings, and union discrimination matters before the Public Employm...

Pete Becker develops and implements global trademark, copyright, trade secret, and domain name protection, policing, and licensing strategies for clients. He has decades of experience building, maintaining, monetizing, and right-sizing clients’ soft IP portfolios. Pete has cleared global branding runways for large (US$500M+) new product launches by identifying, evaluating, and eliminating trademark obstacles in over 150 jurisdictions. While serving as in-house counsel, he managed one of...

Tom Boeder has more than 25 years' experience as a commercial litigator. His practice includes cases involving antitrust, antitrust clearance for mergers and acquisitions, class actions, consumer product liability and consumer protection litigation, and intellectual property litigation. A former deputy attorney general and chief of Antitrust, Consumer Protection and Criminal Law Enforcement in the Washington State Attorney General's Office, Tom has worked on a number of significant cases over...