Sargeant, Robert W.

Current Employment Position(s)

Member

Year Joined Organization: 2006

Lawyer Overview

Rob Sargeant, a member of the firm and the Business and Real Estate Transactions practice
group, is a real estate lawyer with extensive experience in transactions and litigation. His clients
include commercial and residential purchasers and sellers, lenders, landlords and tenants, title
insurance companies and their agents and insureds, brokers and renewable energy developers.

Mr. Sargeant is an experienced title claims counsel, representing title insurance underwriters,
agents and their insureds in resolving title disputes.

Rob also has significant experience representing wind energy developers nationally in closing
acquisition, disposition, equity participation and debt transactions.

Before returning to private practice, Rob managed a national title services office for an international
title underwriter that issues title policies and closes commercial transactions throughout the country.
Mr. Sargeant also served as a member of the Washington Land Title Association’s Executive
Committee and as chair of its Judiciary Committee. He has represented the WLTA before the
Washington State Supreme Court as amicus curiae in several landmark decisions involving the land
title industry.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation - General
• Real Estate
• Insurance
• Title Insurance

Representative Clients

• Acceleration National Insurance Company
• Bankers Multiple Line Insurance Company
• Lawyers Title Insurance Company
• Transamerica Title Insurance Company

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals, Real Estate

Bar Admissions

• Washington, 1982
• U.S. Federal Courts, 1982
• Oregon, 1996
• Alaska, 1996
• U.S. District Court Western District of Washington
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court District of Oregon

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association, 2000 - 2001 (Chair, Title Insurance Law Committee)
• American College of Mortgage Attorneys (Member, Board of Regents)
• Washington State Bar Association (Real Property, and Probate and Trust Section)
• Oregon State Bar Association (Member, Real Estate and Land Use Section)
• Alaska Bar Association (Real Estate Section)
• King County Bar Association (Real Property, and Probate and Trust Section)
• Commercial Brokers Association, 2003 - 2004 (Board of Directors)
• American Land Title Association
• Washington Land Title Association, 1999 - 2004 (Member, Executive Committee, Chair, Judiciary Committee)
• National Association of Industrial and Office Properties
• Urban Land Institute
• International Council of Shopping Centers
• Seattle Rotary Club Number Four
• Downtown Seattle Association
• American Bar Association (Real Property, Probate and Trust Section)
• American Wind Energy Association

Past Employment Positions

• Honorable Terrence A. Carroll, King County Superior Court, Law Clerk, 1982 - 1984

Education

• Indiana University at Bloomington School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, 1982
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: Moot Court
• Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota, 1979
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: cum laude

Address

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

Phones

(206) 628-5981

Faxes

(206) 628-6611

Emails

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Websites

http://www.williamskastner.com