Laurie K. Friedl

Laurie K. Friedl is an Associate in the GRSM Seattle office. She has extensive civil litigation experience as well as experience handling complex transactional matters. Laurie also has significant trial experience in state and federal courts, as well as private arbitration.

Admissions

• Washington 
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington

Memberships

• King County Bar Association

Community Involvement

• Volunteer Attorney, King County Neighborhood Legal Clinics
• Member, St. Vincent de Paul Society, St. Henry Catholic Church
   

• Prevailed before Oregon Court of Appeals defending summary judgment dismissal of Fair Credit Billing Act and Truth in Lending Act counterclaims.
• Presented oral argument before Washington Court of Appeals, Division II in consumer’s appeal of summary judgment granted for bank on a delinquent consumer account.
• Successfully represented creditors in arbitration hearings before JAMS and AAA and in state court mandatory arbitration.
• Executed on real and personal property via sheriff’s sales and wage/bank garnishments on behalf of commercial creditors 
   

Presentations

• Post-Judgment Collections: Getting Consumers to Pay, National Business Institute, Seattle WA, 2010
• Collecting the Judgment, National Business Institute, Seattle WA, 2009

Education

J.D., Seattle University School of Law, 2004, cum laude

• Dean’s List
• Presidential Scholarship recipient
• Order of the Barristers
• Moot Court Board, Vice Chair

B.A., Political Science, University of Washington, 2001

• Dean’s List