POG is proud to announce that Shannon McMinimee, an associate in our School Law Practice Group, has been appointed as General Counsel for the Tacoma School District. Preg O’Donnell & Gillett congratulates Shannon on her achievement and wishes her success in this endeavor.
POG is honored to announce that Curtis Leonard has joined Preg O’Donnell & Gillett’s School Law Practice Group. Curtis has spent the last five years as In-house Counsel, Director of Legal Affairs, and, Director of Human Resources for the Auburn School District. Prior to that time, he worked in Washington, D.C. handling […]
POG Founding Member Mark O’Donnell and Member Emma Gillespie returned the firm’s fourth defense victory in an employment case in King County, WA in July. The Plaintiff, a school district employee, claimed defamation against a co-worker and retaliation against the employer. The Plaintiff claimed that disciplinary action by the District retaliated against […]
Greg Fry of POG’s Portland office returned the firm’s fifth successful defense result in a premises liability slip and fall case in Clark County, WA. Greg represented a hotel operator who was being sued by a guest who fell on the hotel’s premises.
Plaintiff demanded $645,000 prior to trial. A counter-offer of $25,000 […]
Accepting a promotion from Law Clerk following graduation from Seattle University School of Law, Megan M. Coluccio joined Preg O’Donnell & Gillett on August 29, 2011 as an associate. Megan graduated cum laude and served as a Research and Technical Editor for the Seattle University Law Review. Her attorney profile can be found here: […]
Preg O’Donnell & Gillett is pleased to announce that Gregory S. Latendresse has joined the firm as a new associate. Please see his attached biography at http://pregodonnell.com/attorneys/seattle/gregory-s-latendresse/
Following the Supreme Court’s recent adoption of the “independent duty rule” (see Eastwood v. Horse Harbor Foundation, Inc., 170 Wn.2d 380, 241 P.3d 1256 (2010) and Affiliated FM Insurance Co. v. LTK Consulting Services, Inc., 170 Wn.2d 442, 243 P.3d 521 (2010)), plaintiffs’ attorneys have been seeking to expand tort-based allegations for economic losses […]
Preg O’Donnell & Gillett is proud to announce that founding members Mark F. O’Donnell and Eric P. Gillett have been named to the Washington Super Lawyers list as top attorneys for 2011. No more than 5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by Super Lawyers.
Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, […]
Lori K. O’Tool, partner at Preg O’Donnell & Gillett, PLLC, obtained a defense verdict following a four week wrongful death trial in Spokane County, Washington before Judge Kathleen O’Connor. Lori represented the general contractor, a 100 year old mining and construction company.
The claims arose out of the death of a subcontractor […]
Andrew Tingkang, a Seattle University Law student in his second year as a law clerk at Preg O’Donnell & Gillett, is soon to be a published author. These Aren’t the Asteroids You Are Looking For: Classifying Asteroids as Chattels, Not Land will appear in an upcoming edition of the Seattle University Law Review. […]