John L. Messina
Member
Email: jmessina@messinalaw.com

Practice Areas: Negligence Law; Product Liability Law; Highway Liability Law; Construction Site Claims; Medical Malpractice.

Admitted: 1969, Washington

Law School: Gonzaga University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1969

College: University of Puget Sound, B.A., 1961

Member: Tacoma-Pierce County and Washington State Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Washington State Trial Lawyers Association (Secretary-Treasurer, 1973-1974; Member, Board of Governors, 1976-1978).

Biography: Pi Gamma Mu. Recognized as a Top 40 Plaintiff's Personal Injury Lawyers in Washington. Editor in Chief, Gonzaga Law Review, 1968-1969. Author: "Habeas Corpus and the State Prisoner," 3 Gonzaga Law Review 115, 1968. Co-Author: "The Collateral Source Rule in Personal Injury Litigation," Gonzaga Law Review Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 1972; "Highway Design Liability," published by Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 1983; "Potholes, Ruts & Shoulder Dropoffs-A Story of Poor Highway Maintenance," Trial Magazine, February 1991; "The Human Factors Expert and Contributory Fault," WSTLA Trial News, November, 1982; "This Is A Generic Article (the Story of DES)," WSTLA Trial News, February, 1983; "Automobile Crashworthiness," WSTLA Trial News, May, 1983; "Toys That Kill," WSTLA Trial News, December, 1983; "The Human Factors Expert in Tort Litigation," Trial Magazine, January, 1984. Author/Editor, "Automobile Litigation & Evidence," 1990. Washington State Trial Lawyer of the Year, 1979. Faculty Member, National College of Advocacy, 1982-1988. Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1989-. Member: International Society of Barristers, 1988-; Damage Attorney Round Table (DART), 1989-; American Board of Trial Advocates, 1996-. Mensa. Fellow, Roscoe Pound Foundation. (Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy)

Languages: Italian.

Born: Tacoma, Washington, December 11, 1939

ISLN: 904840450