Vanessa Firnhaber Oslund

Vanessa Firnhaber Oslund is a Partner at Oslund Udo Little, PLLC in Seattle, Washington. She earned her Bachelor of Arts with Honors from DePaul University in 2000 and her Juris Doctor summa cum laude from Seattle University School of Law in 2006, where she served as an Editor of the Seattle University Law Review. She is admitted to practice in Washington and Oregon. Oslund's practice focuses on mesothelioma and asbestos exposure litigation, asbestos-related lung cancer, VA mesothelioma claims, wrongful death mesothelioma claims, and juvenile sexual abuse cases.

As lead trial counsel alongside Ruby Aliment, she obtained a $13,034,186 jury verdict in a medical malpractice case against a cosmetic surgeon. Her other results include a $30 million jury verdict in 2022 in Multnomah County, Oregon against Ameron Corporation in a mesothelioma case, a $10 million jury verdict in 2021 in King County, Washington for a shipyard asbestos exposure case, a $4.25 million jury verdict in 2019 in King County for an electrician's asbestos case, and a $1.45 million jury verdict in 2011 in King County under the Jones Act for a merchant mariner, along with $11 million in settlements for a union boilermaker with mesothelioma and $6.9 million in settlements in a secondary asbestos exposure case. She received the Tom Chambers Trial Lawyer of the Year Award in 2024, was named to Super Lawyers in 2026, and holds the WSAJ Eagle Badge for 2025. She belongs to the Washington State Bar Association, the Oregon State Bar, the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association, the Kitsap County Bar Association, and the Multnomah Bar Association.