The veteran "Johnson & Associates" squad has captured the 2006 Seattle Lawyers Basketball League crown. It finished the season with an 11-1 record.
The title tilt was a bruising battle on June 8 between J&A, which was the No. 1 playoff seed, against the scrappy squad from Stanislaw Ashbaugh, which entered the playoffs as the No. 6 seed with a 7-4 record, but fought its way to the championship game. It was a fitting finale as J&A was able to avenge its only loss of the 2006 season.
Johnson & Associates is not a law firm, but a team of nine lawyers, many of whom are practicing law in small firms. The team takes its name from Larry Bird wannabee and league Commissioner Anthony C. Johnson, who is joined on the team by his law partner, Bill Spurr. Team members and their respective law schools are Johnson (Boston Univ., '88); Spurr (Boston Univ., '90); James H. Clark (Willamette, '87); Eric C. Hanson (Seattle Univ., '96); Robert Iannucci (Boston Univ., '88); Joshua M. Lipsky (Georgetown, '95); Eric S. Nelson (Pepperdine, '92); Charles T. Paglialunga (UPS, '92); Robert J. "Jack" Slavik (Seattle Univ., '96); and Shannon P. Smith (UPS, '88).
