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About Luke Garrett

Luke is committed to achieving justice for vulnerable persons. He focuses his practice on helping persons who have suffered catastrophic personal injuries, including those harmed by exposure to toxic substances. Before joining SGB, Luke worked as a public defender with the King County Department of Public Defense, where he tried dozens of cases to verdict.

As trial counsel in civil practice, he has obtained the highest asbestos verdict in excess of $16 million ever awarded in King County. He is also a capable appellate attorney, having argued appeals on a variety of topics in both state and federal courts. After law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joan N. Ericksen in the federal district court of Minnesota and to Justices Alan Page, Helen Meyer, and Sam Hanson in the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$16.67 millionVerdict

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.

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

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Education

University of Minnesota Law School
J.D., magna cum laude, 2006
Yale University
Undergraduate, 2002

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