About Viivi Vanderslice

Viivi Vanderslice is a personal injury attorney at Bernard Law Group licensed in Washington, California, and Nevada. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Minor in History. She earned her J.D. from California Western School of Law in 1999, graduating in the top 8% of her class. While at California Western, she received the American Jurisprudence Award for Torts, Contracts, and Advanced Civil Litigation Practice and Procedure, served as an executive editor of the International Law Review, and published in the California Western Law Review.

She also clerked at one of the largest plaintiff's personal injury firms in San Diego, working on medical malpractice, wrongful death, and abuse cases. Following law school, Viivi spent eight years as an insurance defense attorney before switching to plaintiff-side representation in 2007. She joined Bernard Law Group to represent accident and injury victims exclusively. She is an active member of the Washington State Bar Association and the Washington Association for Justice.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Bernard Law Group

These results are credited to Bernard Law Group. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$27.4 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2005 · #4

A San Francisco jury returned what was then the largest personal-injury verdict ever against the city after a Municipal Railway repair truck ran a red light, struck another vehicle, and jumped a sidewalk, killing a four-year-old girl and injuring three others walking with her.

San Francisco Superior Court, CA · 2005Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$18.5 millionSettlement

Scott Bliss suffered catastrophic brain injury when a Scarsella Bros. dump truck made an illegal U-turn on an I-5 WSDOT construction ramp in Centralia, yielding what is believed to be the largest WSDOT settlement in Lewis County history.

Lewis County Superior Court, WA (crash near Centralia) · 2016Motorcycle AccidentsRead the full story →

A King County Metro bus driver cut a corner short near the Renton Transit Center on March 10, 2021, rolled the rear tires over Jessica Chapel as she lay on the sidewalk, then canceled her own emergency call and left the scene, costing Chapel her leg.

King County Superior Court, WA · 2021Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

California Western School of Law
J.D., 1999
University of Washington
Undergraduate, 1995

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Washington
State Bar of California
State Bar of Nevada

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$16.67 million · King County's Largest Asbestos Verdict: $16.67 Million for Camas Paper Mill Worker's Family

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.