About
Jamie based Phinney Estate Law in 2007 as a manner of addressing a need she saw in the network for low cost, values-primarily based property planning and as a way to broaden a criminal practice that changed into regular along with her very own values and prison philosophy. Before founding Phinney Estate Law Jamie labored as a litigation partner at Cozen O Connor, as an legal professional guide for the U.S. Department of Justice, and as criminal intern for Northwest Immigration Rights Project and Northwest Justice Project.
Jamie started her paintings in estate regulation in 2005 as a pro bono lawyer with King County Volunteer Lawyers for Persons with HIV/AIDS (VAPWA). She determined that she loved the opportunity to assist customers with the making plans technique and and the hazard to think creatively with these clients to address the specific desires of their conditions. She also appreciated the possibility to paintings with customers to keep away from conflicts. In addition to her work with VAPWA, Jamie additionally did pro bono paintings and/or labored for non-earnings offering clients with assistance with immigration petitions, naturalization, applications for public blessings, and family law instances. She keeps to dedicate 30% of her practice to seasoned bono work and free community schooling. As part of that service, Jamie serves as a volunteer lawyer facilitator for the ex-celebration probate and guardianship calendar in King County.
Since founding Phinney Estate Law, Jamie has had the opportunity to paintings with individual or households in a lot of conditions. She has worked with newlyweds, younger families, single commercial enterprise proprietors, blending households, the terminally ill, and non-married clients. It is her revel in that every own family, no matter how traditional or non-conventional, is in reality particular and, when you get to recognise them, have particular needs.
When she isn't operating, Jamie volunteers her time to some of nearby community groups which include the Phinney Neighborhood Association and the Greenwood Arts Council. She is a practicing Quaker with the Salmon Bay Friends Circle. She additionally enjoys spending time along with her family and friends and loves spending a much time as feasible taking part in the outdoors. She is in three e-book clubs and is constantly searching out a good e book. She additionally carves and prints block prints that may on occasion be seen in stores and coffee house inside the Phinney-Greenwood neighborhood.
Jamie is a member of the Washington State Bar Association sections on Probate and Elder Law. She is likewise a member of the King County Bar Association sections on Guardianship and Elder Law and Treasurer of the Collaborative Law Section. She currently serves as Chair of the King County Collaborative Law Civil Practice Group and is a member of the King County Collaborative Law Board. She is also lively in SAGES a set offering advocacy for LGBT Seniors.
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- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
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- Lawyer
Phinney Estate Law
2007 - Associate
Cozen O Connor LLP
2002 - Lawyer Advisor
U.S. Department of Justice
2001
Educations
Graduation year: 1997
Graduation year: 1997
