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About Edwin Budge
Edwin Budge has practiced law for more than 30 years, dedicating the bulk of his career to civil rights and catastrophic injury and death cases. He co-founded Budge & Heipt, PLLC in Seattle in 1998 alongside Erik Heipt. Budge earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from the University of Oregon in 1991 and his law degree magna cum laude from Willamette University College of Law in 1994, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Willamette Law Review.
He has been repeatedly recognized as a Washington Super Lawyer in civil rights litigation and is an Eagle Member of the Washington State Association for Justice, which named him its 2023 Trial Lawyer of the Year. Budge has tried civil rights cases in federal courts across the country, including in the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, Arizona, and Indiana. Verdicts and settlements across his career total more than $180 million.
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A federal jury in Spokane awarded $26.75 million to the estate of Cindy Lou Hill, a 55-year-old woman who died of a perforated intestine in the Spokane County Jail after NaphCare staff attributed her symptoms to heroin withdrawal, though the Ninth Circuit vacated the $24 million punitive portion in 2025 and the case was dismissed on remand.
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