Eddy Silverman
About
Recently selected to the 2023 Washington Rising Stars list, Eddy Silverman is a creative, zealous advocate who specializes in premises liability and personal injury defense for corporate retail clients, but defends cases of all kinds—including professional liability (malpractice) matters and transportation defense cases.
Eddy enjoys the strategic and tactical side of defending cases, and gameplanning with clients. He enjoys persuasive writing and arguing, and the theater of trial – all reasons why he serves as Co-Chair of the Associate Training Committee at Williams Kastner.
In addition to litigation, Eddy has a wealth of mediation/alternative dispute resolution experience, as both a mediator himself and as an advocate for clients. He holds a Master’s Degree in Dispute Resolution from The Straus Institute at Pepperdine Law, which is routinely ranked as the #1 program in the United States by U.S. News and World Report.
Away from the office, some of the things Eddy enjoys are movies, music, and spending time with his family.
Memberships
- USLAW
- Defense Research Institute (DRI)
- King County Bar Association
- Washington Defense Trial Lawyers
- Federal Bar Association — Western District of Washington
Recognitions & Awards
- Legal Elite 2016, Nevada Business Magazine (June 2016)
- Selected to Washington Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2023 – 2024)
Education
- Lehigh University, 2007
B.A. summa cum laude - Pepperdine University, 2014
School of Law, J.D., M.D.R.
Media Coverage
- Thank you to all attendees of the Retail and Hospitality Track at the 2024 USLAW NETWORK Client Conference!
- Thank you for a phenomenal 2024 Litigation Academy!
- Attorney Eddy Silverman successfully prevailed on a motion to recovery attorneys’ fees and costs, recovering nearly $400,000 for our client as a sanction for opposing counsel’s bad faith litigation tactics.
Presentations & Seminars
- Johnson v. Liquor and Cannabis Board: More Than Just A Fun Case Name, USLAW “Short Takes” Legal Alert, September 2023.
- None of their Business: Identifying and Protecting Privileged Communications, Seattle, Washington, April 2022.
- Negotiation Strategies for Claims Adjusters, Seattle, Washington, July 2021.
- Defense Tactics Unique to Brain Injury Cases, NBI Traumatic Brain Injury Cases: Doctor and Attorney Perspectives, Seattle, Washington, June 2019.
- What Can Outside Counsel Learn from the Insider Perspective?, 2024 USLAW Network Litigation Academy: Expert Chapter, Hosted by Future USLAW Leaders
- Damned If You Do/Damned If You Don’t! Navigating the Progressively More Litigious World of Retail & Hospitality, Spring 2024 USLAW Network Client Conference
Articles & Publications
- A Reasonable Revolution: A Push for Policy Reform in Retail Space, USLAW Magazine, Summer 2024 Issue.
- Less Is (Not) Moritz: Why Plaintiffs Probably Have to Show More to Establish Unreasonable Risk of Harm Post-Johnson v. Liquor and Cannabis Board, As Seen in the Case of Moritz v. Wal-Mart, Inc., WDTL Defense News, Summer 2023 Issue
- Scarred by SCCAR and Marred by MAR: Why to Avoid Arbitration Like COVID in the COVID Era (And What to Do When You Can’t), WDTL Defense News, Winter 2022 Issue.
- Ask And *I Shall Receive: How To Use Plaintiffs’ Demand Letters To Your Advantage, WDTL Defense News, Summer 2022 Issue.
- Anticipating a Fight over “the Anticipation of Litigation”: Maximizing Work Product Protection When Defending Against Tort Claims in a Corporate Setting, USLAW Magazine, Summer 2019 Issue.
- The Suspicious Existence of the ‘Repeat Player Effect’ in Mandatory Arbitration of Employment Disputes, 3 National Law Review 1 (2013).
- Dick Woodson’s Revenge: The Evolution of Salary Arbitration in Major League Baseball, 2013 Pepp. L. Rev. 23 (2013).