By Karen Sutherland
I am so glad I leave my Christmas lights hanging up all year round. It makes decorating for the holidays much easier. I would have left the inflatable tree up, too, but it usually starts self-deflating by mid-January. With all my spare time, I also gathered some things for Bar Talk, which is a nice segue way into . . . .
New Partners and Shareholders
Preston Gates & Ellis LLP added John Chun as a partner in its labor, employment and benefits practice group. Chun also focuses on commercial litigation, including class-action defense work and representing clients in international legal matters. Chun was previously a partner in Mundt MacGregor L.L.P.
Maria Diamond has become a shareholder at Otorowski Johnston Diamond & Golden, PLLC, where her practice focuses on medical negligence and other serious personal injury cases. Diamond was formerly a shareholder at Levinson Friedman, P.S.
Clemens (better known as Clem) Barnes has rejoined Graham & Dunn as a shareholder, and heads its labor and employment team. Barnes was previously with Graham & Dunn from 1972 to 1993.
Associate Additions
Stoel Rives recently added Jason Crowell and Steven Thiele as associates. Crowell, who is in the firm’s litigation practice group, previously was an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan, P.C. and Thelen Reid & Priest LLP. Thiele practices in Stoel Rives’ resources, development and environment practice group. He was previously the chief toxics cleanup attorney for the ecology division in the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.
Williams Kastner & Gibbs PLLC has added Joseph Corr and Jessie Lee Harris as associates. Corr’s practice focuses on commercial litigation. Harris’s practice concentrates on civil litigation, including product liability. Harris was formerly with Helsell Fetterman, LLP.
Jeffrey Kestle has joined Gardner Bond Trabolsi St. Louis & Clement PLLC as an associate. His practice focuses on litigation.
Other Attorney News
Karl Oles has joined the Seattle office of Stoel Rives as of counsel in the construction and design section of the litigation practice group. Oles was previously a partner with Danielson Harrigan Leyh & Tollefson.
Honors, Achievements and Awards
Stoel Rives has named Ronald Lone as the firm’s chair. The former chair, Henry Hewitt, is now leading Stoel Rives’ business services practice group.
John Houlihan, Jr. has become chair of Short Cressman & Burgess PLLC’s real estate practice section.
Washington Women Lawyers recently hosted its annual dinner where Tisha Pagalilauan of Preston Gates & Ellis LLP was named president. Other new officers are Susan Noonan, president-elect, and Jennifer Smith Meyer of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, who was named to the new position of immediate past president. WWL also welcomed its incoming board and honored Judith Ramseyer with the Passing the Torch Award; Preston Gates & Ellis with its President’s Award; and the Honorable Betty Fletcher with the WWL Founda-tion Award.
Outside the Law
Greg Bartholomew is excited to announce that two unrelated and long-awaited CDs of music he composed have recently been released. His Suite from Razumov was recorded by members of the Kiev Philharmonic, and his three choral settings of text From the Odes of Solomon was recorded in the Czech Republic by the Ars Brunenesis Chorus. Both CDs are available on his website, gregbartholomew.com. In addition to being a composer, Bartholomew is an
attorney at Bullivant Houser Bailey PC.
Ogden Murphy Wallace, P.L.L.C., is organizing a holiday craft fair for December 9 in our office. If you or someone else in your office is interested in participating, please let me know. It’s a lot of fun.
Obituaries
Judge Faye Collier Kennedy recently died following an illness. Judge Kennedy graduated from the University of Idaho Law School in 1967 and became the first woman Snohomish County deputy prosecutor in 1968. She began her judicial career in 1970 when she was elected as the first woman to the Everett District Court. She subsequently entered private practice before being elected to the Court of Appeals in 1990. Her law clerks have established a memorial scholarship fund in her name at the University of Idaho College of Law.
Karen Sutherland is the chair of the Employment and Labor Law Practice Group at Ogden Murphy Wallace, P.L.L.C., and chair of the King County Bar Bulletin Committee. Her practice focuses on employment and labor law and complex litigation. She can be reached at 1601 -- 5th Avenue, Suite 2100, Seattle, WA 98101, by phone at (206) 447-7000, by fax at (206) 447-0215, or by e-mail at ksutherland@omwlaw.com.
