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Laura

Laura Marquez-Garrett

ShareholderE-Discovery, Technology & Strategy Team Chair; Recruiting and Summer Associate Committee Chair

Laura Marquez-Garrett has extensive experience representing clients in all manners of litigation and business disputes, including bet-the-company and similar, high-stake matters. She is highly responsive to her clients’ business and litigation needs, and excels at creative problem solving.

Laura is Chair of the Electronic Discovery team, and regularly consults and serves as discovery counsel on matters of critical proof, as well as discovery policies, protocols, and litigation practice. She has extensive experience resolving disputes through early case assessment and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), but is equally adept in state and federal court proceedings. Laura’s diverse practice includes a wide range of disputes, such as:

Breach of Contract and/or Fraud;
Partnership disputes;
Product liability;
Consumer finance;
Securities;
Real estate;
Consumer protection;
Class action defense;
White collar defense, and investigations; and
Enforcement proceedings involving the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (WA-DFI).

Laura’s experience includes:

Managing complex, multi-party negotiations and mediations;
Extensive investigation experience (and success) in areas of financial fraud and, more generally, a wide range of situations where evidence is concealed;
Obtaining terminating sanctions and a more than $20,000,000 judgment on counterclaims after two years of State Court litigation, representing partner/investor client;
Obtaining multiple discovery master recommendations, including severe sanctions, in role as lead discovery counsel on joint defense team defending against claims of breach and bad faith, followed by settlement of more than $200,000,000 in claims.

Professional Experience

Foster Pepper PLLC, Associate (2008-2011)

Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

Contract Attorney (2006-2008)
Associate (2002-2006)
Summer Associate (2001)

Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC,

Summer Associate (2000; 2001)

Community Involvement

National Council of La Raza, Member

National LGBT Bar Association, Member

Sedona Conference Working Group 1, Member

Seattle Parkinson’s Project, Former Member of the Board of Directors

Lawyer’s Club of San Francisco, Former Member of the Board of Governors

Washington State Bar Association, LGBT Law Section, Former Committee Chair

Thought Leadership

September 18, 2019Event / CLE
Electronic Discovery IRL: Spend Less and Accomplish More
Washington Defense Trial Lawyers, Lighthouse & Lane Powell Lunch & Learn CLE | Seattle
June 4, 2019News
Lane Powell Announces New Leaders, Reinforcing Focus on Innovation & Talent
Firm Announcement
October 12, 2018News
Lane Powell Highly Recommended in Benchmark Litigation 2019
Awards & Honors
October 26, 2017News
Lane Powell Highly Recommended in Benchmark Litigation 2018
Awards & Honors
October 20, 2016News
Lane Powell Highly Recommended in Benchmark Litigation 2017
Awards & Honors
August 9, 2016News
Marquez-Garrett and Sands Named to Benchmark Litigation’s ‘Under 40 Hot List’ for 2016
Awards & Honors
October 27, 2015News
Lane Powell Highly Recommended in 2016 Benchmark Litigation
February 2, 2015News
Lane Powell Obtains $1.1 Million Monetary Sanction in State Court Proceedings
July 31, 2014Publication
Electronic Discovery: Glossary of 123 Commonly Used Terms
Electronic Discovery, Technology and Strategy Legal Update
April 28, 2014Publication
Do You Know Where Your Data Went? Best Practices for Preserving Electronically Stored Information
Seattle Business Magazine

Practices & Industries

Class Actions
Commercial Litigation
Electronic Discovery, Technology & Strategy
Financial Institutions Litigation & Investigations
Privacy & Data Security
Securities & Corporate Governance Litigation

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., 2002
- Harvard Latino Law Review, Editor-in-Chief (2001-2002)
- Harvard Latino Law Review, Editor (2000-2001)
- La Alianza, Community Outreach Chair
University of California at Berkeley, B.A., magna cum laude, 1999

Admissions

Washington
California
U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
U.S. District Court, Northern and Eastern Districts of California

Honors

"Future Star," Benchmark Litigation (2016-2019)

"Under 40 Hot List," Benchmark Litigation (2016)

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