Civil Litigation
Our lawyers have broad litigation experience in San Juan County courts and before the San Juan County Hearing Examiner. Our attorneys can help you pursue your lawsuit or defend claims made against you.
Our litigation experience includes:
- Real estate litigation, including adverse possession, boundary line disputes, prescriptive easements, and various types of easement-related disputes
- Land use litigation, both before the San Juan County Hearing Examiner and San Juan County Superior Court Judge
- Partition actions to divide jointly owned real estate
- Unlawful detainer actions and other residential landlord-tenant disputes
- Commercial lease disputes
- Homeowners' association disputes
- Contract and business law related litigation
- Construction litigation
- Lien foreclosures
- Trust and estate related litigation
- Civil fraud claims
- Serving as local counsel for attorneys from other states
Our attorneys are also experienced in taking cases through the mediation and arbitration processes in San Juan County and beyond. Our support staff provides invaluable assistance to our clients' cases during the litigation process.
We are technologically equipped to handle litigation. Our staff answers the phones, we have voice mail boxes, we check our email frequently, and we are equipped to scan and email documents to you to ensure rapid delivery of important papers.
Because our office is located in the County seat of Friday Harbor, on San Juan Island, we are just minutes from the San Juan County courthouse. This enables us to file documents with the San Juan County Superior Court Clerk on short notice, and appear at hearings without charging for travel time by plane or ferry.