High Net Worth Guide 2026 : Washington
Ranked Individuals
Provided by Stokes Lawrence, PS
The Stokes Lawrence Estate Planning & Administration Group is one of the premier private wealth services teams in the Pacific Northwest.
Our attorneys provide sophisticated counsel to affluent individuals and families on wealth preservation, multigenerational business structuring, tax and succession planning, and wealth transfer strategies. With deep technical expertise and extensive experience, we offer nuanced insight into the complex issues that shape our clients’ financial and family legacies.
What sets us apart is our client-centered approach. Estate planning can be both technical and profoundly personal. We pride ourselves on making complex concepts understandable and guiding clients with clarity, patience, and care. Our combination of technical excellence and strong client relationships allows us to clearly articulate objectives and recommendations while building trust.
Individuals and families rely on us for comprehensive estate planning services, including preparing core documents—wills, powers of attorney, and health care directives—as well as sophisticated planning for business transitions, charitable giving, lifetime gifting strategies, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and long-term care planning.
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Stokes Lawrence is known in Washington for advising high net worth clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious private wealth matters, such as trust and estate litigation, trust and estate planning, and mediation.
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Stokes Lawrence not only communicate complex strategies in a way that is easy for the client to digest, but also identify appropriate strategies based on clients' situations.
Stokes Lawrence has a deep team. They have a significant number of well-qualified lawyers and also have the breadth to handle any kind of issue.
Stokes Lawrence's attorneys are incredibly good advocates for their clients, while taking a reasonable approach to the matter at hand.
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Alison Warden brings her background in tax matters to her work handling contentious trusts and estates matters. She advises clients on a range of cases, including will challenges and breaches of fiduciary duty.
Alison's client control, knowledge and expertise make her invaluable.
Alison Warden is one of the kindest humans you'll ever meet. She is a wonderful lawyer and capable.
Alison is connected to a strong network of professionals who also help bolster the facts surrounding cases.
Ann Wilson is fantastic – a long-time litigator, very trusted counsel and sophisticated.
Ann is well known, strong and respectable.
Karolyn works as a mediator and is well known for estate dispute matters.
Karolyn Hicks has focused on a client goal approach rather than just purely litigation. She has been growing a mediation arm in practice and doing a great job in taking care of clients' needs.
Jenna Ichikawa leads Stokes Lawrence's estate planning and administration group in Seattle. Her clients include fiduciaries, as well as high net worth individuals and families.
Marcia Fujimoto joined Stokes Lawrence from Karr Tuttle Campbell in April 2025. Fujimoto is respected for her estate and succession planning expertise.
Marcia Fujimoto is a great estate planner and a solid person.
Marcia is a very season lawyer.
Marcia is well known and has a great reputation.
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Provided by Stokes Lawrence, PS
Kirsten Ambach
Tammy Chu
Johanna Coolbaugh
Mitch Cory
Haley Hargreaves
Ellen Jackson
Elizabeth Jennings
Garon Jones
John Poffenbarger
Charles Robinson
Patrick Shirey
Benjamin Spruch
Saul Tilden
Riley Wigen
Marcia Fujimoto
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