Dawn S. Spratley

Shareholder | Seattle | 206.223.7274 | spratleyd@lanepowell.com

Area of Practice

Dawn Spratley focuses her practice on estate and trust litigation, probate, and domestic and international estate planning.

Professional Experience

• Intern, Honorable Judge Mark J. Cavanagh, Southfield, Michigan

Admitted to Practice

• Washington
• Michigan (inactive)
• U.S. Tax Court
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan

Academics

• University of Detroit Mercy School of Law (J.D., 1998)
  • University of Detroit Mercy Moot Court Board of Directors
  • Editor, University of Detroit Mercy Law Review
• Pepperdine University (B.A., 1993)

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

• Fiduciary Litigation
• Trusts and Estates

Publications

• “Adjudications of Testacy, Intestacy or Heirship,” Chapter 11 of the King County Probate Policy and Procedure Manual, 2011
• “The Meaning of a Taking…and…Just Compensation… (For) Owners Regulated by the Wetlands Protection Act,” 75 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev., 467, 1998

Speaking Engagement

• “Litigating Prenuptial and Property Status Agreements in Probate Proceedings and Under TEDRA,”  The Fifth Annual Trust and Estate Litigation Seminar, Washington State Bar Association, Real Property, Probate and Trust Section and CLE, 2008

Awards and Honors

• Named as a “Rising Star,” Washington Law & Politics, 2009

Professional and Community Activities

• Trustee, The Children’s Museum Seattle (2011)
• Member, King County Bar Association, Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
• Member, Washington State Bar Association, Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
• Member, Washington Women in Tax
• Member, Estate Planning Council of Seattle
• Member, State Bar of Michigan

Language

• Limited German