Selected but representative settlements and verdicts:

Stephen J. Crane

• Successful permitting and purchase of 14 floors of transferable development rights for construction of $100MM+ “W” hotel in downtown Seattle.
  
• Successful assembly and rezoning of 14 parcels of real property adjacent to I-5 in South Snohomish County for $300MM+ new urban village.
  
• Successful representation of foreign investors in obtaining U.S. Federal Court trial verdict for $650K against real estate developer for fraudulent conveyance
  
• Successful representation of land owners who developed entire I-90 interchange at North Bend, WA into outlet mall, commercial development, Nintendo corporate headquarters etc.
• $850,000 settlement for undocumented alien working in gypsum plant whose arm was amputated in a conveyor belt industrial accident. Case involved four defendants and significant liability and damage issues.
  
• Successful representation of customers before the State Supreme Court in Scott v. Cingular striking down class action bans in consumer agreements.
  
• Confidential settlement for substantial sum for victim of sex abuse in 1950’s by priest in Eastern Washington.
  
• Confidential settlement, but successfully represented over 1400 current and former employees of private club in wage claim matter spanning over 15 years.
  

Douglas S. Dunham

• Obtaining two significant administrative law decisions re: Department of Labor and Industries in areas of occupational disease and safety violations.

  In 2001, Mr. Dunham was appointed by the Mayor of Seattle and confirmed by the City Council to the Pro Parks Levy Citizen's Oversight Committee, which had the responsibility of overseeing the expenditure of $200,000,000 capital levy funds for Seattle Parks and Recreation. He was the Chair of the committee during the last two years of the 8 year levy. He then continued as the Chair of the Seattle Parks and Green Space Levy Citizen's Committee for two years and remains on the committee. He serves on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Association of Recreational Councils (ARC), which runs all the programming in partnership with the Seattle Parks and Recreation. He has also been appointed as the Mayor's citizen representative to the Citizens' Complaint Panel reviewing police misconduct cases.

  • Successful representation of customers before the Washington Supreme Court in Scott v. Cingular Wireless LLC, 160 Wn.2d 843, 161 P.3rd 1000 (2007), striking down class action bans in the "fine print" of terms and conditions of consumer agreements with partner and lawyers with Public Justice.

  • Successfully having Supplemental Rule B of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure be declared as unconstitutional on procedural due process grounds in Grand Bahama Pet. Co., Ltd. v. Canadian Transp., 450 F. Supp. 447 (W.D. Wash. 1978).

  • Successful representation of business client in lien foreclosure actions collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in client owed funds.

  • Handling an appeal in the Supreme Court that established the "public duty doctrine" regarding whether the state and local governments faced responsibility for certain wrongful conduct in Washington State in Campbell v. Bellevue, 85 Wn.2d 1, 530 P.2d 234 (1975).

  • Protecting client in complex insurance coverage and liability actions in cases involving claims in excess of millions of dollars.

  • Co-counsel in case where national collection agency was declared in violation of Washington State Collection Agency Act for failure to become licensed.

  • Representing commercial tenant buyers of property where businesses are located for large physical therapy treatment center in Edmonds and major construction and industrial training center in Bellevue.