Edmonds, Jerry B.

Current Employment Position(s)

Member

Lawyer Overview

Jerry Edmonds is a member at Williams Kastner and is based in the Seattle office. He has familiarity with numerous areas of substantive law and has served clients in a variety of industries including insurance, health care, banking, finance, leasing and transportation, as well as clients from a broad range of professional, manufacturing and distributing businesses. His experience includes advising, transactional work and litigation. Mr. Edmonds was named to Super Lawyers by Washington Law & Politics magazine for 2003, 2004 and 2006 in its annual survey of Washington’s top lawyers. He has also been recognized by the Seattle Met magazine as a “Top Lawyer” in Insurance for 2010, a designation based upon Martindale-Hubbell's ranking of those practitioners in King County who have been judged by their peers to be “AV Preeminent”—the highest peer-review rating available.

Areas of Practice

• Insurance
• Litigation - Commercial
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• International
• Antitrust
• Banking & Financial Institutions
• Corporate Governance
• General Litigation
• Mass Torts

West Practice Categories

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business & Commercial, Health Care, Insurance, International Law, Litigation & Appeals, Personal Injury, Personal Injury -- Defense, Toxic Torts

Bar Admissions

• Washington, 1974
• U.S. District Court Western District of Washington
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Washington State Bar Association, 1985 - 1987 (Chairman, Professional Liability and Insurance Committee)
• Washington State Bar Association, Antitrust Commission (FormerChair, Robinson Patman and Below Cost Pricing Subcommittee, 1983)
• American Bar Association (Chair, Litigation Section, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee)
• American Bar Association (Co-Chair, Hazardous Waste & Litigation Task Force)
• King County Bar Association
• Robinson-Patman & Below Cost Pricing Subcommittee (Chairman)
• Law Fund (Indigent Legal Services) (Board of Directors)
• American Bar Association (Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section)

Honors and Awards

• Super Lawyer, Washington Law & Politics Magazine, 2003 - 2004

Education

• University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California, 1974
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Law Review: Ecology Law Quarterly, Notes and Comments Editor, 1973 - 1974
• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1971
  M.A., Master of Arts
  Major: Economics
• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1970
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
  Major: Economics

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Omicron Delta Epsilon

Address

Two Union Square
601 Union Street, Suite 4100
Seattle, WA 98101-2380

Phones

(206) 628-6639

Faxes

(206) 628-6611

Emails

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Websites

http://www.williamskastner.com