Larry Setchell  
phone (206) 689-2171
lsetchell@helsell.com

AREAS OF PRACTICE
• Products Liability and Other Personal Injury
• Environmental Law and Land Use
• Commercial Disputes and Class Actions
• Business and Real Estate Transactions
• Trials and Appeals

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mr. Setchell has a general civil law practice with an emphasis on complex litigation. He has extensive experience representing and advising businesses and individuals in products liability, environmental, securities, intellectual property, state and federal taxation and contract matters. He has tried and won many protracted, complex cases. He has successfully quarterbacked numerous environmental projects, including helping negotiate permitting, superfund remediation, and waste management/discharge programs for clients in the aluminum and maritime industries. His track record in litigation under CERCLA and the Washington MTCA is spotless, having tried and won cases of significant importance. He is especially willing to take on and aggressively handle matters of substantial financial and quality of life importance to his clients. As a result, he has accomplished several multi-million dollar settlements for injured plaintiffs in difficult product liability cases (aviation and automotive crash and defect cases) and obtained judgments and settlements involving more than $170 million in property tax valuation reduction on behalf of industrial clients. Mr. Setchell is proud to say that many of his clients are lawyers from other communities and states who find themselves and their clients with legal challenges beyond their experience in product liability, environmental, and other complex problems.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Washington State Bar Association
Washington State Trial Lawyers Association
American Association for Justice
AIEG

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Foster parent
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice

EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin School of Law (J.D., with honors, 1972) Member, Board of Editors, Wisconsin Law Review, 1971 to 1972
University of Washington (B.A. 1969)

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
Washington State Bar, 1972
Admitted to Ninth Circuit, and United States District Court for Eastern and Western Washington
Admitted pro hac vice in various matters in Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Utah

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