Tyler Jones

Professional Experience Tyler’s corporate practice focuses on helping professionals such as physicians, dentists, veterinarians, CPAs, and attorneys with all of their business needs. He helps professionals form their own companies, structure partnership and other joint ventures, and acquire existing practices. Once established, he assists with all legal matters that arise during a company’s tenure, including […]


Nicholas Harper-Smith

Professional Experience Nick represents family offices, family businesses and high net worth individuals in connection with a variety of matters. In general, these matters can be grouped as follows:  Business and Personal Transactions. These include M&A transactions; corporate reorganizations; private equity / venture capital fundraisings and investments; real estate acquisition and development; and negotiating contracts […]


Kevin Khong

Professional Experience Kevin is a Partner with the firm who practices in the trust and estate litigation practice group and who also specializes in civil appeals for a number of different legal practice areas. Kevin assists clients in matters involving probate disputes, will contests, trust account discrepancies, fiduciary abuse, guardianships, and committed intimate relationships. He […]


Brandon Gribben

Professional Experience Brandon’s practice focuses primarily on land use and general real estate issues as well as real estate and general commercial litigation.  His clients include real estate developers, housing cooperatives, condominiums and individual homeowners.   He has experience representing clients in all phases of real estate and commercial litigation in Washington and New York trial […]


Samuel Jacobs

Professional Experience Sam Jacobs’ practice focuses on real estate and land use law with an emphasis on residential, mixed-use and infill development issues.   He represents developers, housing cooperatives including floating home communities, condominiums and homeowner associations on matters of land use and municipal law matters.  Additionally, he advises and represents clients on general real […]


Shawn Butler

Professional Experience Shawn practices in the firm’s litigation department, handling personal injury, commercial, and real estate litigation. He has experience representing clients in all phases of litigation in Washington courts. He also practices in the firm’s insurance coverage group, in disputes between policy holders and their insurance companies and supports the firm’s health care department, […]


Karen Kalzer

Professional Experience Ms. Kalzer practices employment and education law with an emphasis on defending complex litigation for communities of faith, non-profits, schools and private employers. Ms. Kalzer has handled and successfully resolved over 300 claims of employee misconduct by combining tough incisive legal tactics with an empathetic litigation approach and compassionate communication skills. Her practice […]


Michael Spence

Professional Experience Mike’s practice emphasizes real estate transactions and brokerage matters, land use/zoning, alternative dispute resolution and litigation. A significant part of his practice involves waterfront properties and aquatic lands. He is a certified mediator and arbitrator and has served as a court-appointed referee and expert witness on a wide array of real estate matters. […]


Alexandra Gerson

Mark Rising

Professional Experience The first fifteen years of Mark Rising’s practice focused on litigating a wide variety of business disputes, including breach of contract, unfair business practices, violation of intellectual property rights, theft of trade secrets, release of hazardous waste, commercial product liability, insurance and business dissolution disputes.  See, Business Litigation Background, below.  Using the knowledge […]


Alexandra Gerson

Kameron Kirkevold

Professional Experience Kameron Kirkevold’s practice focuses on complex guardianship, probate and trust matters arising under Washington State’s Trust and Estate Dispute Resolution Act (TEDRA).  He joined Helsell Fetterman in 2010 after two years as an associate in his father’s firm of Kirkevold Law Offices, Inc., and has been a partner at the firm since 2016. […]