Biography & Experience
25+ years of proven experience
Ann is a trusted dispute resolution professional with 25+ years of litigator and 10+ years of mediator experience. From complex risk analysis to empathy, she brings versatility to her work as a neutral built on decades of successful problem solving.
Ann began her legal career as a hard-working criminal defense lawyer. She went on to become a trusted partner at the Seattle law firm Bishop & Lynch, P.S., which evolved into Marshall & Weibel, P.S. During this time, she gained profound expertise in real property, commercial law, and consumer protection, handling a wide range of civil litigation cases in state and federal courts. To extend comprehensive West Coast services, Ann led her Pacific Northwest team to join the California law firm Anglin Flewelling Rasmussen Campbell & Trytten, LLP (AFRCT, nka Lagerlof). As the managing partner of the AFRCT Seattle office, she oversaw litigation across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska.
Extensive dispute resolution training & practice
After participating in hundreds of mediations as an attorney advocate, in 2012, Ann completed mediation training at the top-ranked Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law and began mediating alongside her litigation practice. A self-confessed “training junkie,” Ann was driven far beyond the intro mediation course and returned to Pepperdine over the years for many advanced courses in negotiation and mediation, attended extensive additional trainings at other institutions, and established relationships in the national dispute resolution professional community. In 2020, Ann began practicing dispute resolution exclusively, when she was invited to join JAMS.
Experience
- Adversary proceedings
- Automatic stay—scope, violations, exceptions, relief and annulment
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 11 Subchapter V—Small Business Debtor Reorganization
- Chapter 13
- Creditor claims
- Class action creditor claims
- Discharge—objections and violations
- Exemptions
- Estate’s avoidance powers
- Estate property
- Fraudulent transfers
- Judicial estoppel
- Lien stripping
- Liens—validity and priority
- Preferential transfers
- Valuation—commercial and residential real estate
- Void/voidable transfers
- Bonds
- Construction contract disputes
- Delays and defects
- Mechanics’ and Materialmen’s Liens—perfection, foreclosure, release, validity and priority
- Regulations
- Subdivisions
- Noncompete agreements
- Nondisclosure agreements
- Pre-litigation conflicts in workplace
- Restrictive covenants
- Trade secret
- American Land Title Association (ALTA) title insurance policies
- Bad faith
- Commercial general liability
- Construction
- Coverage
- Duty to defend
- Homeowner’s insurance
- Insurance Fair Conduct Act (IFCA)
- Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) proceedings
- Professional liability
- Subrogation
- Underinsured motorist
- Access/driveway
- Acquiescence
- Adverse possession/boundary disputes
- Affordable housing covenants
- Appeals
- Bank real estate owned properties (REO)
- Bona fide purchaser doctrine
- Bonds
- Boundary disputes
- Code compliance
- Community property
- Condemnation
- Condominiums and associations
- Conveyances and encumbrances
- Covenants
- Covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs)
- Declaratory judgment actions
- Deeds of Trust Act (DTA)
- Easements
- Eminent domain
- Escrow
- Estoppel
- Equitable subrogation
- Evictions
- Fixtures
- Foreclosure—nonjudicial and judicial
- Forfeitures
- Forgery
- Fraud
- Height/view restrictions
- Heir disputes
- Homeowner’s Associations (HOA)
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS) liens
- Inverse condemnation
- Land use
- Landlord tenant
- Leases—real and personal property
- Legal description issues
- Legal lot status
- Liens—priority and validity
- Lis pendens—effect and wrongful recording
- Lot approval
- Merger of title
- Misrepresentation
- Mobile homes
- Mortgages
- Mutual Acquiescence
- Mutual Recognition
- Nuisance
- Partition actions
- Plat approval
- Probate
- Purchase and sale transactions
- Recording Act
- Reformation of instruments
- Rights of first refusal
- Rights of way
- Seizures
- Seller disclosure liability
- Separate property
- Setbacks
- Shared structures, fences, driveways and wells
- Subordination agreements
- Subdivisions
- Supersedeas—bonds, stays and effects
- Surveys
- Tax liens—foreclosures and sales
- TEDRA (Trust and estate dispute resolution act)
- Timber trespass
- Title defects
- Title insurance
- Trespass
- Unlawful detainers
- Unrecorded real property interests
- Valuation
- Waiver
- Water rights
- Well agreements
- Will interpretation/disputes
- Alter ego/veil piercing
- Banking/finance: mezzanine financing, bridge loans, construction loans, lines of credit (open/closed)
- Bridge loans
- Charitable Trust Act
- Class actions
- Commercial finance
- Construction and development
- Construction loans
- Contract—interpretation, breach and damages
- Corporate disregard
- Deficiency judgments
- Development restrictions/regulations
- Directors’ and officers’ liability
- Entity dissolution and disputes (partnership, LLC, corporation)
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Fiduciary duty
- Fixtures
- Fraudulent transfers
- Guarantor liability
- Indemnity
- Joint venture/entity disputes
- Labor & Industries—licensing and regulation
- Leases
- Liens
- Lines of credit—open/closed
- LLC disputes
- Mezzanine financing
- Mobile home parks
- Nonprofit Corporations Act
- Partnership disputes
- PPP loans
- Purchase and sale transactions
- Receiverships
- Replevins
- Sheriff’s sales
- Subrogation
- Successor liability
- Upset price
- Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
- Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (UVTA)
- Accounting
- Affordable housing
- Attorney’s fee claims
- Attorney General—enforcement actions
- Charitable Solicitations Act
- Charitable Trust Act
- Class actions
- Collection Agency Act (CAA)
- Collections
- Consumer Protection Act (CPA)
- Consumer lending
- Credit reporting
- Emotional distress damages
- Escrow
- Escrow Agent Registration Act
- Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA)
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA)
- Fee shifting
- Financial services
- Fixtures
- Fraudulent Transfers
- Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac)
- Guarantors
- Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP)
- Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOC)
- Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA)
- Homestead exemption
- Identity theft
- Labor & Industries
- Licensing
- Loan origination
- Loan servicing
- Nonprofit Corporations Act
- Predatory lending
- Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act (RESPA)
- Replevins
- Security interests—real and personal property
- Student loans
- Sub-prime lending
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
- Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
- Unfair and deceptive practices
- Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
- Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (UVTA)
- Writs—attachment, execution, and garnishment
- Accounting disputes
- Bridge loans
- Construction loans
- Consumer lending
- Collection Agency Act (CAA)
- Collections
- Commercial finance
- Consumer Protection Act (CPA)
- Credit reporting
- Emotional distress damages
- Escrow agents
- Escrow analysis
- Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA)
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA)
- Fee shifting
- Fixtures
- Fraud
- Fraudulent Transfers
- Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac)
- Guarantors
- Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP)
- Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOC)
- Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA)
- Homestead exemption
- Identity theft
- Leasing—real and personal property
- Lines of credit (open/closed)
- Loan origination
- Loan servicing
- Mezzanine financing
- Payment disputes
- PPP loans
- Predatory lending
- Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act (RESPA)
- Replevins
- Security interests—real and personal property
- Student loans
- Sub-prime lending
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
- Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
- Unfair and deceptive practices
- Unlawful detainers
- Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
- Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (UVTA)
- Writs—attachment, execution and garnishment
- Attorney
- Debt collection
- Escrow
- Limited practice officer (LPO)
- Realtor
- Surveyor
Speaking & presentations
- “Navigating Mediation’s Ethical Terrain”; 26th Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference; co-sponsored by the University of Washington School of Law and the Washington State Bar Association; March 22, 2024
- “Effective Advocacy: Tips for Mediation and Trial”; CLE sponsored by JAMS and Washington State Bar Association; November 22, 2023
- “Mediation Ethics”; Thomas T. Glover Mediation Program Panel Mediators for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Washington; June 22, 2023
- “Wait, What!? Ethics Rules Apply in Mediation?”; Multnomah Bar Association; May 2, 2023
- “Ethical Consideration in Litigation and ADR and Ethics Update”; JAMS CLE; December 14, 2022
- “Effective Advocacy: Tips for Mediation, Arbitration and Trial”; King County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division; November 2, 2022
- “Title Insurance: Underwriting, Claims and Resolution”; JAMS CLE/webinar; September 15, 2021
- “Mediating in the Pandemic”; 34th Annual Northwest Bankruptcy Institute; April 22-23, 2021
- “Cannabis Legal and Industry Update”; JAMS CLE; January 14, 2021
- “Tips and Techniques to Succeed at Virtual ADR”; JAMS CLE; April 30, 2020
- “Underneath the Hood: BK Mediation Nuts Bolts and A Few War Stories”; Thomas T. Glover Mediation Program Panel Mediators for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Washington; March 19, 2020