About Paul Stritmatter
Paul Stritmatter is a co-founding senior partner of the firm, where he has handled more than 1,000 plaintiff personal injury cases since beginning practice in 1969, including 80 cases that settled or went to verdict for over one million dollars each. After clerking for two Washington Supreme Court justices in 1969 and 1970, he built a plaintiff practice in Hoquiam, Washington that he and Keith Kessler formally launched together in March 1980. He established several significant points of Washington law, including the right of a spouse to sue for loss of consortium in Lundgren v. Whitneys, Inc., the unconstitutionality of the legislative cap on damages in Sofie v. Fibreboard Corp., and governmental roadway liability in Breivo v. City of Aberdeen. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Willamette University College of Law in 1969 and has carried an AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell rating since 1975.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore
These results are credited to Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A King County jury awarded $123 million to 40 plaintiffs after five international students were killed and dozens injured when a Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicle suffered a catastrophic axle fracture on Seattle's Aurora Bridge in 2015.
A Pierce County jury awarded $44.7 million to an EMT and volunteer firefighter left with permanent injuries after an SUV driver turned left through an uncontrolled intersection and into his path, a verdict Washington courts later upheld in full.
Washington state paid $28 million to a young woman left quadriplegic after her car struck an unguarded overpass pillar on I-5 near DuPont, where WSDOT had funding and a plan to install a protective barrier but never completed the work.
King County paid its largest personal injury settlement on record after a 38-year-old mother of two was mauled by two dogs the county had repeatedly been warned about but failed to remove.
Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore secured a $10 million settlement from the City of Seattle on behalf of more than 50 protesters who were struck by blast balls, tear gas, and other crowd-control weapons deployed by Seattle Police Department officers during the May and June 2020 George Floyd demonstrations.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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