Law Office of Shannon Kilpatrick

13/08/2021

Any golfers or animal lovers out there? I'm excited and proud to sponsor Homeward Pet's 1st Annual Golf Tournament, coming up Saturday August 27, 2021 at the Golf Club at Redmond Ridge. There's still a few team spots left for the tournament, and you can register online. There will be prizes, games, auction items, food, and of course, cats and dogs! All proceeds benefit the animals! Let me know if you have any questions.

Homeward Pet Adoption Center is a non-profit, no-kill animal shelter serving the greater Seattle area. We give homeless animals a second chance through our rescue, shelter, and adoption programs.

30/06/2021

I've got a couple of new posts up on my blog about recent WA Supreme Court cases, for your reading pleasure, if you're interested. I've also FINALLY added a feature that allows you to subscribe and get a notification when a new post is published. It took me a really long time to figure out how to do that because, well, I'm a lawyer not a web designer. So you better sign up! (Applies only to my lawyer friends!) 😄

Appeal to Justice is a Blog written by Washington appellate attorney Shannon Kilpatrick. The blog primarily looks at Washington state-related legal issues. Based in Duvall, Washington, Shannon handles civil appeals in state and federal court and consults with other lawyers on their cases.

15/05/2021

I redesigned my blog and wrote a new blog post titled "Appellate procedural traps for the unwary." Let me know if you spot any errors, typos, or weirdness going on! https://www.appeal2justice.com/blog/appellate-procedural-traps-for-the-unwary

19/04/2021

Do you ever wonder what on earth a judge was thinking? Last week, I had that thought while reading an unpublished opinion out of Division II of the WA Court of Appeals last week. The trial court excluded the plaintiff's expert witness WITHOUT performing a Burnet analysis. I got so worked up about it I wrote a blog post! https://www.appeal2justice.com/blog/exhibit-a-for-why-we-have-appellate-courts

If you have a case where you think a court erred, give me a shout. I consult on and handle appeals.

There are a lot of things that are debatable in the law. In those cases, a judge may rule against your client on an issue, but as long as you understand how and why the judge reached the result they did, you shrug your shoulders and move on. On the other hand, sometimes you run into a case where you

10/03/2021

Need something to read? I just published a blog post about last week's Washington Supreme Court decision in Woods v. Seattle Union Gospel Mission, pitting a worker's right to be free from sexual orientation employment discrimination and a religious nonprofit's right to its sincere religious beliefs.

Warning--it's long! (Don't say I didn't warn you! 😀)

What happens when the Washington Law Against Discrimination crashes headlong into the 1st Amendment right of religious employers to choose workers who reflect their beliefs? Last week the Washington Supreme Court decided the answer is “it’s complicated.” In Woods v. Seattle Union Gospel Missio...

01/03/2021

Office purralegal Hannah is hard at work. 😆