Athan Papailiou | Yakima Personal Injury Lawyer

Athan Papailiou provides trial, appellate, and general counseling solutions to injured individuals throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Athan Papailiou helps individuals and small businesses obtain recovery for personal injuries and economic losses.  Athan also provides general counseling solutions to professionals navigating a wide array of legal problems, including employer separation and non-disclosure agreements, workplace investigations and complaints, and professional licensing disputes

Raised in Oregon by his Greek family who own and operate a small restaurant, Athan takes pride in delivering smart, practical advice to clients throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

In addition to practicing law, Athan is also committed to public service and community engagement.  From 2016-2019, Athan served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Washington State Bar Association.  He has also spent hundreds of hours doing pro bono work.

Before launching his own law practice, Athan was a litigator at Pacifica Law Group, a spin-off of the international law firm K&L Gates.  While at Pacifica, Athan represented public, private, and non-profit clients in constitutional, appellate, and governmental litigation.  Athan joined Pacifica following his judicial clerkships with Justice Debra Stephens at the Washington Supreme Court and Judge Randall Howe at the Arizona Court of Appeals.  As an appellate clerk, Athan drafted over seventy memorandum decisions and opinions on a wide array of legal issues, including the scope of the attorney-client privilege, shareholder and contract disputes, and constitutional challenges.   

As a first-generation college student, Athan studied political science and biology at the University of Oregon, where was awarded the Dean’s Award for Leadership and Service and served as the Student Senate President.  He then earned his law degree from the University of Arizona, where he was named a Dan B. Dobbs Scholar for his aptitude in tort law and he served as a Writing Fellow and member of the Arizona Law Review.

Outside of work, Athan enjoys traveling, Scandinavian design, and spending summers visiting his family in Greece.  He has an exotic short-haired cat named Tomtako.   

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Attorney	Law Offices of Athan P. Papailiou	Yakima, WA	Present
Litigation Associate	Pacifica Law Group LLP	Seattle	09/2016-1/2020

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona	J.D.	Law School	N/A
University of Oregon	B.S.	Biology, Political Science	2009

State / Court	Date
Alaska	2020
Oregon
Arizona
Washington	2014

• Board of Governors | Washington State Bar Association | 2016 - 2019
  Member | Washington State Bar Association
  Member | Arizona State Bar Association
  Member | Oregon State Bar Association
  Member | Alaska State Bar Association

• Dan B. Dobbs Scholar

• Athan P. Papailiou, David V. Yokum, Christopher T. Robertson, “The Novel New Jersey Eyewitness Instruction Induces Skepticism but not Sensitivity,” 10 PLoS ONE 12 (2015)
  
  Athan P. Papailiou, “Making Sense of the Linchpin to Medical Malpractice Litigation: Expert Medical Witness Qualification,” 55 Ariz. L. Rev. 2 (2013)

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