About Jonathan Burr
Jonathan Burr is a Workers' Compensation attorney at Washington Law Center who represents workers injured on the job and fights to protect their rights under Washington's Labor and Industries system. Before joining Washington Law Center, Jonathan represented employers throughout Washington in workplace injury and safety matters, including cases involving the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act. That experience gives him insight into how companies and insurers approach these claims, which he now uses to strengthen cases for injured workers. Raised in Northern California, Jonathan earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from UC Davis.
He then joined the U.S. Army, serving as both an enlisted soldier and an Officer involved in Combined Armed Forces missions, before earning his Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. He has called the Pacific Northwest home for over a decade and is a member of Kitsap Legal Services. In his free time, he enjoys activities with his family, gardening, and volunteering.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Washington Law Center
These results are credited to Washington Law Center. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Pierce County jury awarded $16.7 million to the family of a pregnant Puyallup woman who died of H1N1 influenza after Summit View Clinic failed to tell her that Tamiflu was available to treat the infection. Ashton Dennis of Washington Law Center served as co-counsel for the family alongside Connelly Law Offices.
University Place School District agreed to pay $9.5 million to three former students sexually abused by volunteer wrestling coach David O'Connor, settling days before a scheduled four-week trial. Washington Law Center's Ashton Dennis served as co-counsel with Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala.
University Place School District agreed to pay $4.25 million to six former student-athletes who were sexually abused by convicted sex offender David O'Connor while he served as a volunteer wrestling coach at Curtis Junior High and Curtis High School.
Washington Law Center secured a $3.5 million settlement against the Marysville School District after two former students came forward with claims that art teacher and cheerleading adviser Kurt Hollstein sexually abused them in a school darkroom during the mid-1980s.
Washington Law Center attorney Ashton Dennis secured a $1 million settlement from the Marysville School District on behalf of a male former student who said art teacher Kurt Hollstein sexually assaulted him on school grounds starting in 1981, when the victim was approximately 14 years old.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
