Sean D. Leake

Sean Leake is an associate in the Seattle office of Williams Kastner, where he is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation practice group. Sean is a trial lawyer with extensive courtroom experience in state and federal courts representing clients in business and commercial litigation focusing on regulatory compliance, administrative law, shareholder disputes, and banking, and related appellate matters. Before joining Williams Kastner, Sean worked at a small construction litigation firm working on construction defect, bid protests, and breach of contract claims in both state and federal courts.

Sean is a “Double Dawg” having attended the University of Washington for both undergrad and law school. During law school, Sean represented small businesses and low-income individuals in tax controversy proceedings with the IRS and United States Tax Court. During his undergrad years, Sean majored in economics and international affairs, studied abroad in Ireland, interned in the United Kingdom, and was published in the Jackson School of International Studies Center for Global Studies Magazine for winning the “2012 Media Center Film Paper Competition” writing about power dynamics and the economic underpinning of the Irish Revolution and Civil War. Before law school, Sean worked for Microsoft as a paralegal in the fields of international corporate compliance, and mergers and acquisitions.

• Co-Author, “Chapter 24: Mediation, Disputes Review Boards, and Project Neutrals.” Washington State Bar Association Construction Law Deskbook, 2019