Mike Maxwell
Mike
Maxwell has delivered justice to his clients for nearly a decade and
a half, having taken more than one hundred cases to jury. While at
Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, he completed an internship
for the Federal Defender in Alaska where he defended individuals accused
of crime at trial. He assisted in a prisoners' federal class action
litigation in Raleigh, North Carolina that forced the State of North
Carolina to improve prison conditions. He also assisted with death
penalty defense and investigation in Atlanta, Georgia.
Following law school, Mr. Maxwell attended the Georgetown University School of Law, where he was awarded an academic fellowship to complete a rare masters degree in law in the area of trial advocacy. While at Georgetown, he supervised third year law students as they defended the criminally accused at trial.
Mr. Maxwell worked as a criminal defense attorney for seven years in King County. There, he defended over a hundred criminal defendants at trial on charges ranging from DUI to murder in the first degree. One of his most notable wins was State v. Vigil, where his client was charged with two counts of assault in the first degree for shooting two unarmed people at close range. Mr. Maxwell's client was acquitted by invoking the defense of self defense and the jury awarded all attorney fees and costs to Mr. Maxwell.
Before joining the Bernard Law Group, Mr. Maxwell worked as a civil plaintiff and defense attorney at several offices, including Rohan Goldfarb Rafel and Shapiro in Seattle, Lucas & Lucas, PS in Bellevue, and the law office of Kenneth R.Scearce in Seattle, bringing several matters to trial. His appellate experience includes Thompson v. E. Pacific Enterprises, a product liability case where the plaintiff's allergies caused her to enter into anaphylactic shock and a coma and suffered subsequent brain damage. 115 Wn.App. 1042 (2003). He also argued Sjoegren v. Pacific Northwest Properties, a premises liability case. 118 Wn.App. 144 (2003).
