Building on recent growth in the Pacific Northwest, national law firm Wilson Elser has today welcomed seventeen accomplished attorneys to its Seattle, Washington, office, including eight new partners. Mary Butler, Lorianne Hanson, Nicole Jackson, Dan Mooney, Daniel Park, John Versnel, Evelyn Winters, and Steven Wraith join as partners.
“The Pacific Northwest is the fastest-growing region for the firm,” explains Daniel J. McMahon, Chair of Wilson Elser. “Since 2023, Wilson Elser has steadily added headcount and expanded the defense services for clients with work in Washington and Oregon. In fact, including this new team, we have hired 31 lateral attorneys in our Seattle and Portland offices in 2025.”
Penn Gheen joins as of counsel, and Fatima Al-Rikabi, Alec Anderson, Natasha Fingar, Maryam Nayibova, Rachel O’Hanlon, Corinna Pilat, Tim Rosewell, and Sara Shapland as associates. The new attorneys specialize in litigating matters across various practice areas, including toxic tort, construction, aviation, medical malpractice, product liability, and admiralty and marine law.
“These lateral attorneys are a good fit for the Seattle office because their experience reinforces our existing capabilities defending product liability and toxic tort matters,” added Rachel Tallon Reynolds, regional managing partner of the Seattle office. “I’m especially excited to bolster our national trial team experience and offer additional services to our medical malpractice, aviation, and admiralty and marine clients.”
“We are excited about the growth of the Seattle office and the opportunity to be part of the firm’s national platform,” noted new partner Lorianne Hanson. “There is great energy in being part of it.”
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