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About Thomas Breen

Tom is a trial lawyer who focuses his practice on three areas: representing those injured by dangerously designed or manufactured products (including asbestos-mesothelioma cases), representing those harmed by the neglect of professional service providers such as nursing homes and medical professionals, and taking cases where trial is imminent. He began his law career as a Deputy King County Prosecutor, trying scores of cases. Prior to law school, he completed two years with Teach for America and taught college in Spain and San Francisco.

During law school he clerked for trial attorney Dick DeGuerin and received a Cain fellowship for work on environmental law issues in Latin America. He is a publisher of the Washington Product Liability blog, a contributing author to the Washington Product Liability Deskbook, and serves on the faculties of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the University of Washington School of Law. He is fluent in Spanish and speaks Portuguese.

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.

Practice areas

Education

The University of Texas School of Law
J.D., 2003
University at Albany, State University of New York
Undergraduate, 1993

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