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Anne M. Bremner
Stafford Frey Cooper, PC
3100 Two Union Square
601 Union Street
Seattle, WA 98101-1374
206.623.9900
206.624.6885 Fax
Email:
Anne
M. Bremner
Website:
www.annebremner.com |
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Anne is a litigation shareholder and has been
a trial attorney for 26 years.
Anne received her B.A. in Medieval History (with Honors)
from Stanford University in 1980, and was awarded her J.D. in
December, 1982 from Seattle University. She is a former judicial
law clerk, and was a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the Criminal
Division of the King County Prosecutor's Office specializing
in sex crimes from 1983 to 1988. Since entering private practice,
she has represented the Seattle Police, Bellevue Police, Tacoma
Police, Des Moines Police and other police departments and officers,
and also priests and judges in civil and criminal trials. She is a member of the American, Washington State and Seattle-King
Bar Associations. She is on the Board of Trustees for the Washington
Defense Trial Lawyers Association, and is a past member of the
State Board of Directors (and Director of Media Relations) for
Washington Women Lawyers.
Anne was defense counsel and obtained defense verdicts
in Vili Fualaau v. Highline School District and the Des Moines
Police Department (The "Mary Kay Letourneau case");
in the Robert Thomas Sr./Mel Miller KCSO inquest, the David
Walker (SPD); Michael Ealy (SPD); Martinez-Mendez (BPD); and
the Nordstrom (Weaver) shooting (BPD) Inquests. She has successfully
defended class actions in WTO (the "Battle of Seattle")
based litigation and for the SPD Police Dogs (a national test
case brought by the ACLU). She defended Pierce County
in the Pierce County Jail class action. She has represented
the Attorney General (now Governor) of Washington. Ms. Bremner
and her cases have been featured on Dateline NBC, Court TV,
MSNBC, the FOX News Channel, Good Morning America, the Today
Show and on the E! News Channel. Anne is a regular on-air legal
analyst for CNN Headline News (in the Prime News Hour), Northwest Cable News, and appears regularly on national
TV as a legal analyst for the FOX News Channel (including the O'Reilly Factor and Hannity), MSNBC, CNN,
CNN Headline News with Nancy Grace, CBS, ABC (GMA), Court
TV (now True TV), and local FOX News, Northwest Cable News, and KIRO and KOMO Radio. She provides Legal Analysis and acts as a legal
consultant for People Magazine, and is regularly consulted
by Time Magazine, USA Today, the Associated Press, the Los
Angeles Times and the BBC News.
Anne is a faculty member
for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has been
a frequent lecturer for seminars throughout the United States,
St. Kitts and in Costa Rica. She is a member of the American
Board of Trial Advocates. She is "AV" rated ("preeminent"). She was a
semifinalist to be the U.S. Attorney in Washington. Anne
has been named a "Superlawyer" (top 5% of lawyers
in Washington State) by her peers in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003 and 2004 and was voted by her peers as one of Seattle's
92 best attorneys in 2001 and one of Seattle's top 115 attorneys
in 2003 in Seattle Magazine (this survey is conducted every
two years). She was named (again by her peers) as one of the "Top
Ten Women Lawyers" in Washington State and one of the "25
Smartest People" in Washington State in Law & Politics
Magazine.
Anne has been profiled in the BarBulletin, DeNovo Magazine,
and in the Law and Politics piece entitled "Headliners
and Legends," and the 2004 Seattle Weekly "Best of
Seattle" issue. She was featured in Seattle Magazine's
November 2004 issue as one of "The Power List: The 25
Most Influential People in Seattle."
Anne is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers
(the top 1% of Trial Lawyers nationwide) and was selected as
the National Representative for all of the inductees to give
their formal presentation at the Induction in March, 2003. Recent Representative Cases
Anne has defended at trial over 100 civil and criminal cases
to completion. All cases for which she was personally responsible
resulted in defense verdicts. As a King County Prosecutor, she
successfully tried over 200 cases. A few examples of her verdicts
and settlements include:
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Lead
Counsel: Olympic Pipe Line Company v. Equilon Pipeline Company
LLC, et al. U.S.D.C. for the Western District of Washington;
involving $500 Million Dollars in claims by and between owners,
operators and contractors for lost profits and other damages
stemming from rupture of pipeline and subsequent shut-down
for repair and remediation. Settlement for far below BI insurer's
payment. Lead trial lawyer for Olympic Pipe Line Company. |
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Lead
Counsel: Capps v. State of Washington, et al., U.S.D.C. for
the Western District of Washington; involving wrongful termination
claims by former Assistant Attorney General. Settlement through
mediation. Defended Washington Attorney General and other
state agency as lead trial lawyer. |
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Case
name confidential: Counsel with John E. D. Powell in obtaining
2.8 million dollar plaintiff's settlement in automobile non-death
case. |
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Counsel
with John E. D. Powell representing plaintiff in wrongful
death case Marin v. King County and Metro. Obtained multi-million
dollar settlement. |
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defense
of King County Sheriff's Deputy George Alvarez in State v.
Alvarez; after month long trial the jury voted 8-4 in favor
of acquittal, and charges were subsequently dismissed by King
County Prosecuting Attorney. |
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defense of King
County Sheriff's Deputy Melvin Miller in the Robert Thomas,
Sr. inquest. Verdict in favor of the officer (2002). |
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successful defense
of Julie Dubravetz "The Dragging Mom" incident
in Bellevue (2002). |
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defense of the City
of Des Moines and Des Moines Police Department in the Vili
Fualaau v. Highline School District, et al. (Mary Kay Letourneau)
case (10-week jury trial resulting in defense verdict) (2002); |
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defense of the City
of Seattle and Seattle Police Department in the Joel R. Silvesan
inquest (patrol car/bicycle fatality accident on Aurora Avenue
North) (2001); |
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defense of the Bellevue
Police Department in the Martinez Mendez Inquest / Bellevue
shooting (Guatemalan man reaching for wallet shot & killed,
officer took the Fifth Amendment) (2001) ("justified" finding); |
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defense of the City
of Bellevue and Bellevue Police Department in the Airen Lee
Weaver inquest (Bellevue Square Nordstrom bank robbery shooting)
(2001) ("justified" finding); |
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defense of the City
of Seattle and individually-named officers and command staff
in multiple WTO litigation matters (2000 and 2001); |
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defense of the Seattle
Police Department and officers in the Ealy wrongful death
inquest and trial (November and December 2000) (defense verdict); |
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defense of Seattle
Police Officer Tommie Doran in the David Walker inquest (2000)
(the "skipping shoplifter with a knife" case, which
had extensive media attention) (verdict in favor of the officer); |
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defense of the City
of Seattle in the WTO class action Luers, et al. v. City
of Seattle et al. (dismissed on defense motion) (2000); |
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defense of companies
HRN (two-week retaliation jury trial, defense verdict) (1999),
Fitz Auto Parts (two-week ADA discrimination/retaliation
jury trial, defense verdict) (2000), United & Mesa Airlines,
Starbucks, and Battelle Management in employment lawsuits
(dismissals pre-trial); |
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defense on behalf
of the University of Puget Sound (discrimination-related
case, dismissed after motion for summary judgment) (1999); |
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defense of all top-ranking
Seattle Fire Department officials (Chief and all Captains)
in the Martin Pang civil case (1998) (all dismissed); |
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defense of Trooper
Lane Jackstadt in Thomas and Cooper v. Jackstadt et al. (1997),
wherein a Washington State Trooper allegedly convinced a
couple he had stopped that they seek "right to life" counseling,
and not have an abortion (nominal settlement), and defense
of Trooper Jackstadt in other tort (dismissed on summary
judgment); |
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defense of the Seattle
Police Department Canine Unit in a national-test-case class
action brought by the ACLU, Bendich v. City of Seattle, et
al. (1996) (seven-week jury trial resulted in complete defense
verdict); |
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defense of the Pierce
County Jail in Herrera v. Pierce Co., et al. (1996), a class-action
suit brought by the ACLU; |
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defense of the Seattle
Police Department in the Edward Anderson Inquest (1996),
wherein on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, an officer killed
an unarmed African-American male (the inquest had extensive
media attention) (verdict in favor of the officer); |
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defense of the Seattle
Fire Department in Dever v. Fowler (1988), a civil rights
42 U.S.C. sec 1983 trial wherein the plaintiff, who was accused
of murder and arson in a fire that occurred at the Immaculate
Conception Catholic Church, alleged civil rights violations
and malicious prosecution based on an inadequate investigation
and the charging of the wrong person (a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist profiled the plaintiff's innocence) (three-week
jury trial resulting in defense verdict); |
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successful prosecution
of the "Harborview Rapist" in State v. Tyrone Briggs
(1987). |
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Ms. Bremner has
been responsible for other high-profile cases defending prominent
professional athletes, judges, lawyers, and doctors. |
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