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Skellenger Bender, P.S. Pro

4.6
33 reviews

520 Pike Street, Suite 1001, Seattle, WA 98101, U.S.A.

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About Skellenger Bender, P.S.

Skellenger Bender has provided the highest quality legal services to individuals, families, businesses and governmental entities. Working alongside such diverse clients has made us more insightful, responsive, and innovative attorneys.

We've been trailblazers from the beginning.

Since 1928, Skellenger Bender has provided the highest quality legal services to individuals, families, businesses, and governmental entities. Working alongside such diverse clients has made us more insightful, responsive, and innovative attorneys.

We're proud of our heritage of service to our clients and the community. We take as much pride in our role in the establishment of rural electrification in the Pacific Northwest, and in paving the way for the group practice of medicine in Washington, as we do in assisting individuals with new business formations, the more than one thousand adoptions handled by our family law attorneys, and the hundreds of hours of pro bono legal services we donate each year to social justice causes.

Our breadth of talent and experience, as well as our legacy of providing the highest caliber of legal representation, allow us to offer our clients cogent strategies and effective advocacy in a wide variety of practice areas.

Skellenger Bender welcomes clients without regard to race, sex, marital status, age, disability, or sexual orientation.

 

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Contracts
Posted by anonymous
January 08, 2019
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Horrible. My spouse and I sought out this Firm for a known donor contract (Fertility services). When the contract was drawn, it was a very obvious ‘cut and paste’ job containing the names of past clients. The also left out very specific language that we had been firm about and then charged us the time to correct their mistakes. The worst part of the entire experience, has been the attitude of the receptionists treating us like we were inconveniences. The snobbery was astounding.

 
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Posted by anonymous
June 27, 2022
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absolutely awful. She said she would help but she clearly was out of her element and I spent so much money. I cried and cried, my ex is still getting away with everything!

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Posted by anonymous
August 19, 2018
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Areas of Law

  • Appellate Practice 3
    • Appellate Advocacy
    • Criminal Appeals
    • Civil Appeals
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution 1
    • Arbitration Or Mediation
  • Litigation 2
    • Civil Litigation
    • Complex Litigation
  • Criminal Law 1
    • Criminal Defense
  • Family Law 35
    • Adoption Law
    • Agency Adoptions
    • Assisted Reproductive Technology
    • Independent Adoptions
    • International Adoptions
    • Interstate Adoptions
    • Step Parent Adoptions
    • Divorce
    • Spousal Support
    • Child Custody
    • Child Support
    • Adoptions
    • Private Adoptions
    • Cohabitation Agreements
    • Domestic Relations
    • Grandparents Visitation Rights
    • Grandparents Custody
    • Marital Agreements
    • Marital Property Settlements
    • Matrimonial Law
    • Palimony
    • Parental Rights
    • Parenting Time
    • Visitation Rights
    • Uncontested Divorce
    • Foster Care
    • Third Party Custody
    • Termination of Parental Rights
    • Post Divorce Modification
    • No Fault Divorce
    • International Family Law
    • Domestic Violence
    • Divorce Mediation
    • Childrens Rights
    • Alimony
  • Trusts and Estates 2
    • Estate Planning
    • Guardianship
  • Professional Liability 1
    • Professional Ethics
  • Domestic Partnerships
  • Health Care 1
    • Health Care Fraud
  • White Collar Crime 1
    • Embezzlement
  • Agency and Distributorships 2
    • Marital Property Distribution
    • Equitable Distribution
  • Fathers Rights
  • Legal Separation
  • Property Law 1
    • Marital Property Law
  • Annulment
  • Other 4
    • Assisted Reproduction
    • Discipline
    • Fraud
    • Post Nuptial Agreements

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    1928

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4.6
33 reviews

520 Pike Street, Suite 1001Seattle, WA 98101U.S.A.

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  • Tuesday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Wednesday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Thursday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Friday 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM

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