Our Firm
Abby R. Michels
Of Counsel
Abby R. Michels is honored to call the Pacific Northwest home. She has worked in the Pacific Northwest for approximately 20 years.
Abby’s career spans two decades in the primary area of civil defense litigation. Abby has worked in a variety of contexts including in private practice, state government and for one of the largest property and casualty insurance companies in the world. Her experience also includes complex construction defect, business, personal injury and first-party insurance defense work including defense of extracontractual and/or Moody claims. She has had the pleasure of representing a number of general contractors and subcontractors in the context of construction disputes, as well as insurance carriers and their insureds in various lawsuits.
- Won summary judgment on first-party insurance case defending insurance carrier in connection with cancellation of policy
- Won arbitration in first-party insurance case defending insurance carrier in connection with suit limitation provision of contract
- Washington State Bar Association
- Oregon State Bar Association
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- Entertainment Law Review (January 2002)
- Oregon Law Journal (Oct. 2001)
- Willamette University College of Law (J.D.)
- University of Washington (B.A., Art History)
- State of Oregon
- State of Washington
- United States District Court, Western District of Washington
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Washington
- United States District Court, Oregon
- United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit