Karr Tuttle Campbell

In 1904 Day Karr and George Gregory formed a law partnership, which continues today as a professional service corporation under the name Karr Tuttle Campbell. Karr provided general legal services which sometimes required a trek up the wooden stairs of the aptly named Profanity Hill to the King County Courthouse. Much has changed since those days. The firm and the courthouse are both in different locations, and both have grown substantially. However, over 100 years later, the firm’s core mission remains the same: to provide a full range of legal services of the highest quality and integrity, at a fair price.

A NORTHWEST FIRM WITH A NATIONAL CLIENTELE

With its origins firmly in the Northwest, Karr Tuttle Campbell knows the local terrain and serves as legal counsel to many large, well-established Northwest institutions, some dating their association with the firm to the early years of the previous century. Out of its offices in Seattle and Portland, Karr Tuttle Campbell also provides legal counsel for individuals, local and regional businesses of all sizes, and Fortune 500 businesses with legal needs in the Northwest.

A WIDE VARIETY OF SERVICES

Karr Tuttle Campbell continues to maintain a varied practice in the best traditions of its founders. The firm has grown and modified the focus of its practice over the course of its century-long existence to meet the needs of an ever more diverse and complex economy. Deeply experienced in all areas of litigation, including personal injury, intellectual property, labor, product liability, securities, and general business and commercial disputes; the firm also understands and counsels countless clients regarding such varied issues as public and private offerings, venture capital financing, corporate governance and reorganization, land use planning and the environment, debtor-creditor rights, private wealth management, probate, trade regulation, taxation, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, and employment relations and labor issues. The clients who utilize Karr Tuttle Campbell’s services are engaged in almost every conceivable type of endeavor including light and heavy manufacturing, computer hardware and software, communications, health care, education, water, land and air transportation, natural resources, construction, financial institutions, food production and service, real estate, insurance, biotechnology, and government and charitable services.

COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE, SERVICE, DIVERSITY & INTEGRITY

Karr Tuttle Campbell attorneys have served as presidents of the Washington State Bar Association, the King County Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association for the Western District of Washington, the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers, and the International Association of Defense Counsel. Many Karr Tuttle Campbell attorneys are selected annually for inclusion on various best lawyers lists and have been honored to be included in the ranks of such elite honorary organizations as. The American College of Trial Lawyers, The American College of Real Estate Lawyers, The American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. In addition, our attorneys have taught at both major Seattle area law schools and regularly serve as continuing legal education instructors.

Karr Tuttle Campbell believes in and strongly encourages active, meaningful involvement in the community. Firm attorneys and non-attorneys alike dedicate countless hours to civic and charitable organizations. The firm’s long term and consistent commitment has resulted in its selection as the pro bono firm of the year by the King County Bar Association in 1992, Seattle Emergency Housing Services, which provides temporary housing to the homeless in 2000, and by the Puget Sound chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators in 2002. Similar accolades have been bestowed upon individual attorneys.

Well before it was common practice, Karr Tuttle Campbell was devoted to diversity. Muriel Mawer, who graduated second in her class in 1936 from the University of Washington Law School, has been associated with the firm for decades and was one of the first female senior partners at a major Seattle firm. Karr Tuttle Campbell’s dedication to bringing diversity to the legal workplace continues with its involvement in such endeavors as the minority clerkship program, which is intended to provide summer opportunities to deserving minority law students.

COMMITMENT TO THE FUTURE

Dedicated to remaining a vibrant force in the business and legal community of the Northwest for a second century, Karr Tuttle Campbell has been a leader in bringing business efficiencies to the practice of law with the ultimate aim of benefiting our clients with improved value and service. Technology plays a key role in this effort. Karr Tuttle Campbell attorneys can access firm documents in a secure, efficient, and reliable manner from virtually anywhere in the world around the clock. Technology investment remains a continuous process with the aim of enhanced client service.

RESPECT FOR A TRADITION OF PROFESSIONALISM

Like Day Karr and the many who have followed him, we remain dedicated to providing excellent legal counsel at a fair price. While now our documents arrive at the courthouse via the internet, rather than by a hike up wooden steps, the care and professionalism with which these documents are crafted respects the traditions and standards established at Karr Tuttle Campbell a century ago.

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