Michael Maxwell | Issaquah Personal Injury Lawyer

Mike Maxwell has an unusually wide breadth of experience as a lawyer. From assisting in prison reform and death penalty cases in the South to defending the criminally accused in Alaska, Washington DC and Washington State, Mike has brought more than 100 cases to trial, arbitration, or resolution by motion. Having worked as an attorney both for an insurance company and a personal injury law firm, Mike realized that his true passion was in the representation of injured people.

A Seattle native, Mike graduated from Bishop Blanchet High School and the University of Washington, followed by law school at Northeastern University in Boston. He attended the Georgetown University Law Center as an E. Barrett Prettyman fellow, earning a rare LL.M in trial advocacy while supervising third-year law students trying criminal cases in Washington, DC Superior Court.

While in law school, Mike assisted in an 8th Amendment “cruel and unusual punishment” federal trial in Raleigh, North Carolina with the goal of reforming unconstitutional prisons in North Carolina. He then worked for Southern Prisoners Defense Committee in Atlanta, Georgia, gathering evidence to help stop the execution of condemned inmates on death row throughout the South. As an intern at the federal public defender in Alaska, he focused his practice on the defense of those who crossed the Alaska–Canadian border with drugs or contraband.  He won his first jury trial, earning an acquittal in federal court for a young woman accused of carrying drugs from Canada across the US border.

After Washington DC, Mike returned to Seattle, where he worked as a public defender in King County. He has defended people accused of crimes in King County Superior Court in Seattle and in Kent. He also defended the accused in district courts in Issaquah, Bellevue, Redmond, Kent, Burien, and Auburn.  

While working for a major insurance company for nearly three years, Mike he learned the practice of insurance defense before deciding to represent injured plaintiffs instead. He then worked for nine years for a Seattle personal-injury firm before leaving to form Maxwell Graham.

While at Maxwell Graham, Mike has focused his practice on medical malpractice and major personal injury.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Partner	Maxwell | Graham	Issaquah, WA	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Northeastern University School of Law	J.D.	Law School	1990
Georgetown University Law Center	LL.M.	Trial Advocacy	1992
University of Washington	Bachelors	Political Science	1985

State / Court	Date
Alaska	2009
Colorado	2009
Washington	1992

• Washington State Association for Justice | Member | 2008 - Present
  Washington State Bar Association | Member | 1992 - Present
  

• At Maxwell Graham, we’re driven to help our clients recover their lives in every way possible. And while this often involves financial restitution, it can also mean being a supportive partner, helping you achieve closure and recognizing that you have been wronged. There are many law firms, but none will care more about your case, or work harder to get the best possible results, than all of us here at Maxwell Graham.

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