Spillane, Mary H.

Current Employment Position(s)

Member

Lawyer Overview

Mary Spillane, a member in the Seattle office, is the chair of the firm’s Appellate and Health Care Practice Groups. Her practice emphasizes state and federal appeals, medical malpractice and products liability defense litigation, and health care law. Ms. Spillane has substantial experience advising health care clients on risk management, credentialing, quality assurance, fraud and abuse, self-referral, antitrust, and health care reform issues. Ms. Spillane has been named to The Best Lawyers in America® since 2007 in the area of Appellate Law and to Super Lawyers every year since 2001 by Washington Law & Politics magazine where she has also been designated as one of the “Top 50 Women Washington Super Lawyers” every year since 2003. She has also been recognized by the Seattle Met magazine as a “Top Lawyer” in health care 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. Ms. Spillane was selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Appellate Law and Health Care Law in 2011.

Areas of Practice

• Appellate
• Health Care
• Product Liability
• Professional Liability
• Mass Torts

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals, Health & Health Care Law, Products Liability Law, Professional Malpractice Law, Professional Responsibility, Class Actions, Personal Injury -- Defense, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Toxic Torts

Bar Admissions

• Washington, 1981
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington
• U.S. District Court Western District of Washington

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Seattle-King County Bar Association (Member, Medical Legal Committee)
• Washington State Bar Association (Member, Health Law Section)
• American Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute
• Washington Defense Trial Lawyers (Liason to Washington Pattern Jury Instructions Committee)
• American Academy of Appellate Lawyers
• National Health Lawyers Association
• Settlement Now (Board of Advisors)
• Washington State Society of Hospital Lawyers
• Washington Defense Trial Lawyers (Trustee)
• Washington Healthcare Risk Management Society
• Foundation for Washington State Courts (President)
• American Board of Trial Advocates (Member)

Honors and Awards

• AV Rated
• Super Lawyer, Washington Law & Politics Magazine, 2001 - Present
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Appellate Law, 2007 and 2008

Education

• Seattle University of Law, Tacoma, Washington, 1981
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: summa cum laude
  Honors: Eloise Baird Boldt Scholar
  Law Review: University of Puget Sound Law Review, Editor in Chief
• University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1973
  B.S.
  Honors: with high honors
  Major: Physical Therapy

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Kappa Phi

Published Works

• Author and Compiler, "Washington Physicians Guide to Health Law", Washington State Medical Association, 2001
• Author and Compiler, "Washington Physicians Guide to Health Law", Washington State Medical Association, 2007
• Author and Compiler, "Washington Physicians Guide to Health Law", Washington State Medical Association, 1996
• Author, "Stark and anti-kickback laws can cost you plenty", WSMA Reports, October/November, 1995
• Author, "The Physician's Liability When the Health Plan says 'No'", WSMA Reports, July , 1995

Address

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

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(206) 628-6656

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(206) 628-6611

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