About

Provided by Stoel Rives LLP

Stoel Rives’ Litigation Department in Washington is known for its extensive range of trial and appellate experience in complex disputes and its consistent success in achieving clients’ goals. 

We collectively have 110 years of experience resolving disputes for companies, nonprofits, and government agencies covering a wide range of industries, including natural resources, ports and shipping, agribusiness, real estate, construction, consumer products, food and beverage, life sciences, healthcare, telecommunications, environmental sciences, and energy.

We also regularly earn recognition for our litigation support on complex infrastructure ventures, traditional and renewable energy projects, and industrial facilities navigating emerging regulatory landscapes.

In addition to representing clients in jury and bench trials, appeals, administrative hearings, arbitrations, and mediations—in which we obtain many of Washington’s largest, most significant verdicts and settlements every year—our litigators help clients resolve regulatory compliance and permitting issues under federal and state statutes, including defending citizen suits and environmental and natural resource cases.

Chambers Review

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Litigation: General Commercial - Washington

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What the Team is Known For

Stoel Rives LLP has a well-regarded team with substantial experience in trial and appellate courts and notable expertise in class action defense. The team excels in a broad range of industry sectors, including transportation and logistics, technology, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. It is regularly retained to represent significant government entities and major corporations in various disputes, including product liability, environmental, IP and insurance matters.

Work Highlights

  • Stoel Rives represented Kaiser Foundation Health against the Washington Department of Revenue, successfully contesting a $6.7 million real estate excise tax on Kaiser’s acquisition of Group Health Cooperative, a nonprofit healthcare organization.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Vanessa Power
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Vanessa Power
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Vanessa Power is recognized for her expertise in complex business litigation, including contentious intellectual property and contract disputes. She has experience representing her clients at trial and on appeal, with particular expertise in the healthcare sector.

She really gets the best results.

She is brilliant, business-savvy and very client-oriented.

David R Goodnight
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David R Goodnight
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David Goodnight is particularly well regarded for his handling of complex commercial disputes arising in the technology sector. He also has experience advising on contractor and insurance coverage disputes.

Maren Norton
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Maren Norton
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Maren Norton is well versed in advising clients on environmental and healthcare litigation, as part of a broad commercial disputes practice. She is the Seattle office managing partner at Stoel Rives.

Ranked Lawyers at
Stoel Rives LLP

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Litigation: General Commercial

Vanessa Power
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Vanessa Power
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Band 2
David R Goodnight
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David R Goodnight
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Band 3
Maren Norton
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Maren Norton
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Band 4

Members

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Alissa Harris

Andrew Pike

Anne Dorshimer

Aric Jarrett

Harrison Owens

J Scott Pritchard

James Kilcup

Javier Perez

Jenna Poligo

Jill Bowman

Maren Norton

Maren Norton

Head of Department

Michael Rubin

Rachel Groshong

Rita Latsinova

Sara Wadsworth

Sean James

William Dempsey

Clients

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Cambia Health Solutions

Coordinated Care Corporation

Draeger

King County, Washington

Lyft

National Church Residences

Planned Parenthood of Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands

Port of Everett

The Everett Clinic

Washington State Department of Transportation

Industries

Provided by Stoel Rives LLP

Agribusiness

Construction

Consumer Products

Energy

Food & Beverage

Healthcare

Life Sciences & Technology

Manufacturing

Natural Resources

Real Estate