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About Jim Hailey
Jim has been a successful litigator for many years, handling hundreds of hearings, arbitrations, and trials. His broad litigation experience extends across multiple categories of litigation involving harm to individuals, whether physical, mental, or financial. He handles the most serious personal injury cases, often involving spinal or brain injury, and also consumer law matters. Jim joined Schroeter Goldmark & Bender because he believed it was the finest trial firm in the Northwest. He carries the highest rating, AV, from Martindale-Hubbell and has received the Public Justice Award from the Washington State Association for Justice.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Schroeter Goldmark & Bender
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A King County jury awarded Sherrie Holdsworth $16,674,097 against Scapa Waycross after her husband Kevan, a Camas paper mill worker, died of mesothelioma caused by the company's asbestos-containing dryer felts, the largest asbestos verdict in King County history.
The family of Jackson Reavis, 22, killed at a Wedgwood intersection Seattle knew was dangerous, settled with the City for $6.5 million after evidence showed the City had already allocated funding for protective left-turn signals but abandoned the project before the fatal crash.
The family of Giovonn Joseph-McDade, an unarmed 20-year-old Black man shot and killed by a Kent Police officer in 2017 following a traffic stop for expired registration, settled their federal civil-rights and wrongful-death lawsuit against the City of Kent for $4.4 million in April 2021.
A Multnomah County jury found the Oregon Department of Human Services liable for a child's catastrophic brain injury after a hospital's hotline report of suspected abuse was mishandled and the child was returned home, where he suffered suboxone poisoning and severe abuse nine days later, awarding $29 million that Oregon's tort claims cap reduces to $4.2 million.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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