Helsell Fetterman Welcomes Two New Partners
Helsell Fetterman LLP, a premier mid-sized law firm in the Pacific Northwest providing trusted advice and formidable advocacy for its clients is pleased to announce that William Enoch and Richard Johnson were promoted to partners.
Will is part of our nationally ranked Real Estate and Land Use practice groups. Will assists clients in matters involving enforcement proceedings and ownership disputes, such as adverse possession and prescriptive easement. He also has extensive experience litigating contaminated site matters brought under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), under Washington’s Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA), and under tort theories such as trespass or nuisance. He also regularly litigates matters under other environmental statues, such as the Clean Water Act.
Will graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2018. Prior to law school, he attended Western Washington University, graduating in 2013.
Will has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star and by Best Lawyers as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Rich is a member of the firm’s nationally ranked Tax Law group. He represents businesses and individuals in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and the Washington State Department of Revenue, with a practice focused on tax controversy and dispute resolution.
In addition to his practice, Rich teaches federal tax procedure in the Master of Science in Taxation (MSTax) program at the University of Washington’s Michael G. Foster School of Business.
Rich earned his LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Washington School of Law in 2009 and his J.D. from Seattle University School of Law in 2006. He received his B.A. in Economics and Chemistry-Biology from Whitman College.
Rich has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a Super Lawyer since 2011 and by Best Lawyers as a Best Lawyer since 2018.