

Kathleen J. Hopkins
khopkins@rp-lawgroup.com
Tel: 206.625.0404
Fax: 206.374.2866
1326 Fifth Avenue, Suite 654
Seattle, WA 98101 |

 
Practice Description:
I enjoy working on complex, commercial real estate deals and workouts. I
draw on my business background to assist our clients with all phases of
their projects: due diligence, acquisition, financing, leasing, sale and
troubled properties matters. My clients include both buyers and sellers,
lenders and borrowers, developers and contractors, landlords and
tenants, creditors and debtors.
Practice Style: I have an undergraduate degree in business and
worked in business for 10 years before attending law school. I have been
a lawyer for 16 years; I spent my first 7 years in practice as a
litigator, sorting out bad deals and representing clients in the
federal, state and bankruptcy courts. These experiences influence my
approach to our clients' deals and problems: I am a member of each
client's business team; my job is to craft the deal or the workout in a
way which minimizes disputes, while I remain cognizant of the business
forces influencing the client's decisions and help attain a sound
business result. At the same time, I appreciate the need for a careful,
meticulous eye for the intricacies of the law, and I devour each line in
a contract or lease as if I were reading a mystery story looking for
clues.
Professional Interests: I enjoy working with professional legal
organizations, such as the American Bar Association, to improve the
ethical and professional development of lawyers and create opportunities
for lawyers to give back to the community. I am starting a three year
term on the ABA’s Board of Governors in August 2007. I am also the
Editor-in-Chief of the ABA’s Magazine Business Law Today and
currently serve on the ABA Business Law Section’s Executive Council,
Finance Committee and I am the incoming chair of the Section’s
Commercial Financial Services Real Estate Financing Subcommittee.
In addition, I am a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono
and Public Service and chaired the Equal Justice Conference in 2006 and
2007.
Background:
Tousley Brain Stephens, PLLC
1998
to 2001, Real Estate Department
Graham & James/Riddell Williams (Seattle)
1991
to 1998, Bankruptcy, Real Estate and Litigation Departments
J.D., with honors, University of Washington,
1991
(Moot Court Honor Board; Order of the Barristers)
B.S., Business Management & Industrial Relations,
summa
cum laude,
Seton Hall University, 1988
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