Michelle M. Garzon
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Phone: 253-552-4090 Fax: 253-593-5625 Email: mgarzon@williamskastner.com |
1301 A Street, Suite 900 Tacoma, WA 98402-4200 |
Experience:
Michelle "Shelly" Garzon is a senior associate in the Tacoma office. Her practice focuses on health care, medical negligence, commercial liability, products liability, and general litigation. Previously, she was an assistant attorney general, Labor & Personnel Division, as well as a judicial law clerk to Judge David Armstrong, Washington State Court of Appeals, Div. II. Ms. Garzon was named to Rising Stars for 2009, 2010 and 2011 by Washington Law & Politics magazine.
Affiliations:
- Oregon State Bar Association
- Washington State Bar Association (Diversity Committee)
- Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association (Young Lawyers Division, President)
- Washington Defense Trial Lawyers
- Washington Health Care Risk Management Society (Board of Directors, Secretary)
- Washington Women Lawyers (Board Member)
- City Club
- L’Arche Tahoma Hope Community (Associate Member)
Seminars and Presentations:
- Presenter, "Medical Records Law in Washington," Sterling Education Services, Tacoma, WA, June 11, 2010.
- Presenter, "HIPAA, ADA and FMLA, - How They Interact" Legal & Regulatory Issues for Employers and Counsel, The Seminar Group, Seattle, WA, April 22, 2009.
- Presenter, Interpreting Medical Information: Finding the Clues for Your Case, National Business Institute, Seattle, WA, November 20, 2008.
- Presenter, Medical Records Law in Washington, Lorman Education Services, Tacoma, WA, August 22, 2007.
Articles:
Areas of Practice
Bar Admissions
- Washington
- Oregon
Education
- Lewis & Clark College School of Law (JD) cum laude, 2001
- Reed College (BA) Anthropology, 1996