Our Firm
Attorneys
The partners and associates of Pacifica Law Group are recognized leaders in their fields of bond and municipal law, sophisticated transactions, constitutional law, appeals, litigation and complex dispute resolution.
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Stacey Crawshaw-Lewis | Partner Stacey Crawshaw-Lewis serves as bond counsel to public clients and as ISDA counsel to public and private clients. She serves on the steering committee of the National Association of Bond Lawyers Bond Attorneys Workshop. Stacey is active in the community, from her service as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer, as past chair of the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska and Washington, and coaching youth soccer. J.D., University of Washington School of Law with high honors |
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Kymberly K. Evanson | Associate Kymberly Evanson practices appellate, constitutional and governmental litigation. Kymberly has represented public and private clients in numerous federal and state trial and appellate courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Washington State Supreme Court. Before entering private practice, Kymberly served as a law clerk for the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Kymberly is a Harry S. Truman Scholar and currently serves on the Board of Lawyers Helping Hungry Children. J.D. Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude |
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Taki V. Flevaris | Associate Taki Flevaris focuses his practice on appellate, constitutional, and governmental litigation. In addition to working on cases directly involving federal, state, and local governments, Taki has litigated in numerous subject areas, including antitrust, bankruptcy, class actions, contracts, copyright, defamation, election law, eminent domain, environmental, public disclosure and public records, real estate, securities fraud, and taxation. Taki previously J.D., Harvard Law School, 2009 |
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Hickory M. Gateless | Associate Hickory Gateless practices litigation at the trial and appellate court level, with a focus on governmental and constitutional matters. Before joining Pacifica, Hickory served as a law clerk for the Honorable Benjamin H. Settle at the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Hickory also clerked for the Honorable Associate Chief Justice Charles W. Johnson at the Washington State Supreme Court. Hickory currently serves on the board of directors for The Mockingbird Society, a leading advocate for foster care reform built on youth-inspired solutions, powerful coalitions and public support for every child’s right to a safe home and a bright future. J.D., Seattle University School of Law with high honors |
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Deanna Gregory | Partner Deanna Gregory practices municipal finance and general municipal law, serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel and disclosure counsel on financing matters, and as general counsel to public entities on general municipal matters. Deanna is the Vice-Chair of the National Association of Bond Lawyers Education Committee, past faculty member of the NABL Fundamentals Conference, and former chair of the NABL Associate Network. Deanna’s extensive community involvement includes serving as the president and treasurer of the board of directors of Solid Ground, and volunteering for the CASA programs for King and Spokane Counties. J.D., Gonzaga University School of Law, summa cum laude |
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Brie C. Jensen | Associate Brie Jensen’s practice covers the full range of commercial real estate and business transactions with a focus on leasing, development, acquisition and disposition of commercial properties. She represents owners, landlords, tenants, developers and business owners in a wide variety of transactions involving real property. She has represented Northwest developers in connection with the development and further sale of regional shopping J.D., University of San Francisco, with honors |
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B. Gerald Johnson | Partner Gerry Johnson’s law practice focuses on major community building projects, including projects that involve both the public and private sectors, such as the Pike Place Market, Pacific Place and Safeco Field. More recent projects have included the expansion of the Seattle Art Museum, the move of the Museum of History & Industry to Lake Union Park, and the transfer of the Washington State Convention Center from the state to a locally-controlled public entity. Gerry is a prominent, active civic leader with board-level service on numerous nonprofits, foundations and civic committees. He is a former managing partner of Preston Gates & Ellis, a predecessor firm to K&L Gates. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude |
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Sarah C. Johnson | Partner Sarah Johnson practices litigation at both the trial and appellate court level and has represented public and private entities in matters in both federal and state courts. Sarah’s litigation experience covers a variety of areas, including constitutional law, election law, environmental law, eminent domain, insurance coverage, and complex commercial matters. Sarah has also provided general counsel services to various local government clients, with a J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude |
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Jon P. Jurich | Associate Jon Jurich has a practice focused on public finance and municipal law. He has worked with a variety of clients ranging from port and utilities districts to state agencies. Jon also has handled matters involving 501(c)(3) borrowers. In addition to working as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel, Jon has experience in matters relating to state legislation and the Washington Administrative Code. Jon received his J.D. with honors in 2009 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as 2008-2009 Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Journal of International Law. He also holds degrees in Irish Literature and Culture (Boston College, M.A. 2006) and English (Loyola Marymount University, B.A. 2003, magna cum laude). J.D., University of Chicago Law School |
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Paul J. Lawrence | Partner Paul Lawrence brings over 27 years of experience to appellate and trial litigation in federal and state courts. He has prevailed in numerous appeals principally in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Washington Supreme Court and has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Appeals. His practice focuses on municipal, constitutional, environmental, insurance and commercial law. He is admitted to practice in Washington and Montana. Paul serves on the Board of Trustees of the Intiman Theatre and on the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Washington. J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, cum laude |
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Jamie L. Lisagor | Associate Jamie practices trial and appellate litigation on behalf of public, private, and non-profit clients. She has successfully represented clients in federal and state courts and administrative proceedings on a broad range of topics, including constitutional, election, property, and commercial law. J.D., University of Virginia School of Law |
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Edward A. “Mac” McCullough | Partner Mac McCullough has thirty years of experience in public finance, with particular emphasis on the federal tax law requirements for tax-exemption. He has worked on transactions throughout the United States as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, borrower’s counsel and special tax counsel. His experience includes general obligation, revenue financings and tax anticipation financings for state and local governmental entities, financings for colleges, universities, hospitals, and other nonprofit organizations, single and multifamily housing financings, and exempt facility and small issue financings. J.D., William & Mary School of Law, 1979 |
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Richard A. Moore | Partner Rich Moore counsels public and private clients in commercial leasing and real property transactions. His practice emphasizes the representation of landlords and tenants in complex retail, office, industrial, telecommunications, life sciences and other specialty leases. Rich serves as leasing counsel to some of the top institutional landlords in the country, overseeing a portfolio of over 5,000,000 rentable square feet in the Puget Sound region. He also represents several national, publicly traded corporations in leasing key office, warehouse, data center and telecommunications facilities across the country, and is a frequent chair and speaker at commercial leasing seminars and classes. J.D., University of Connecticut, with honors |
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John Parnass | Partner John Parnass is a construction lawyer advising clients on public and private infrastructure projects, including transit, water/wastewater systems, roads and bridges and tunneling projects, as well as large commercial, medical, sports and educational facilities. His practice is equally divided between preventive counseling and formal dispute resolution. Within this broad-based practice, John’s primary areas of expertise involve subsurface risk management (i.e., trenchless tunneling disputes, differing site conditions, specification and geotechnical report review), public works procurement issues (bid protests, bidder responsibility issues, legal compliance), and contract negotiation/preparation, general counseling and claims avoidance. J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, 1987, with high honor
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Faith Li Pettis | Partner Faith Pettis serves as bond counsel and outside counsel to state and local governments, with a chief focus on housing, education and nonprofit finance. Faith served on the 2010-11 Board of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and was Chair of the 2011 NABL Bond Attorneys’ Workshop. Faith’s community work includes service on the boards of College Spark and the Seattle Children’s Theater. J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude |
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Jay A. Reich | Partner Jay Reich joined Pacifica Law Group in July 2011 after two years as Deputy Chief of Staff to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke in Washington, D.C. For the previous 28 years, his private law practice in Seattle focused on affordable housing, education, nonprofit and government finance as well as public/private partnerships and general municipal law for a host of public clients, including the Washington State Housing Finance Commission, the Tobacco Settlement Authority, the University of Washington, the City of Bellevue and King County. J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude |
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Matthew J. Segal | Partner Matt Segal’s practice focuses on litigation at the trial and appellate level, including complex appellate matters, constitutional law, municipal law, media law, insurance coverage, commercial and corporate disputes, and environmental and land use actions. Matt has presented arguments in state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Washington Supreme Court. Matt served on the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Washington, and has been repeatedly recognized by the Washington State Bar Association for his pro bono legal work. J.D., Seattle University School of Law, summa cum laude |
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Jessica A. Skelton | Partner Jessica Skelton focuses her practice on litigation at the trial court and appellate levels, including complex commercial and governmental litigation in state and federal courts. Jessica previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Mary Fairhurst, Washington Supreme Court (2005-2006), and as an extern in the chambers of the Honorable Paul De Muniz, Oregon Supreme Court, and the Honorable Ann Aiken, United States District Court for the District of Oregon. She is admitted to practice in Washington and Oregon and was selected as a Rising Star in Washington Law & Politics in 2010 and 2011. She served as President of Washington Women Lawyers in 2010-11. J.D., University of Oregon School of Law |
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Zak Tomlinson | Associate Zak Tomlinson’s practice focuses on the construction industry, and he counsels a wide variety of clients (primarily public and private owners and general contractors) at every phase of the construction process. He represents clients throughout every stage of the claims and dispute resolution process, including mediation, arbitration and litigation in state and federal courts. Zak also has significant experience advising clients on the front-end of projects (including bidding, contract drafting and procurement issues), and has a particular interest in alternative methods of project procurement and administration. J.D., University of Washington School of Law, with honors
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Greg Wong | Associate Greg Wong serves as litigation and appellate counsel for his public, private and not-for-profit clients. Greg specializes in complex issues, often ones that impact people’s lives in the Pacific Northwest. He has been successful in the trial courts, courts of appeal and Supreme Court, in addition to negotiating favorable settlements for his clients. Greg also provides strategic and general counsel advice to clients in numerous areas, including (but not limited to) education policy and laws, elections and initiative issues, the Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA), legislation and public policy, data sharing between private and public entities, contract formation and interpretation, private-public partnerships, and constitutional issues. Greg has done so for several public school districts, municipal entities, the Community Center for Education Results, the ACLU of Washington, the Humane Society of the United States, Teach for America, public agencies, and private entities. J.D., University of Washington School of Law |
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Marni H. Wright | Partner Marni Wright counsels landlords and tenants in all aspects of office, industrial and retail lease negotiations, including complex transactions such as data centers and distribution facilities in excess of 1,000,000 square feet. She also represents borrowers, developers and property owners in managing, acquiring or disposing of commercial and public properties. Her practice includes drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, licenses, covenant agreements, and private and public easements, including conservation easements. Marni is a LEED Green Associate, a distinction that is earned by demonstrating a thorough understanding of green building practices and principles, as well as the LEED Rating System. J.D., University of Washington |
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