About Our Firm

We established the Williamson & Williams law firm in 1998, and currently maintain two offices: one on Capitol Hill in Seattle, and one on Bainbridge Island. We represent clients in class actions against businesses sending out “junk” faxes as well as businesses that make “robo-calls” to residences, cellular phones and businesses for commercial solicitation or collection purposes. We also represent workers in class actions against their employers for claims involving wage and hour disputes, including overtime pay, and handle class actions against banks that charge illegal fees when loans are paid off, claiming the charges are not allowed by the deeds of trust and violate the Consumer Protection Act. We have represented injured persons with claims arising from automobile accidents, medical negligence, injuries sustained while working on tankers, freighters, tugs and fishing vessels, construction site injury incidents and other on the job injuries. We also represent railroad workers who are injured on the job. We have pursued products liability claims for persons who used Vioxx®, as well as clients affected by latex allergies resulting from wearing latex gloves.

Our firm represents individuals; we do not represent corporations or other large institutions. Our clients are involved in their cases and our mission is to help clients whose lives have been affected by illegal and unfair practices, or by injuries caused by the wrongdoing of others.

We and our staff are always available to receive calls and answer any questions. We have e-mail and voicemail in addition to this web site as a means for clients to contact us. No one is more important than our clients, and, though it is not always possible, we try to respond to calls on the very day they are received. We make decisions about our clients’ cases with their input and direction.

Lawyers

Rob Williamson

Rob Williamson was born and raised in California. He attended Princeton University, University College London and Harvard Law School. After graduating from law school, Rob returned to California and joined Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, an entertainment law firm in Century City. He then joined the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and from there became the Director of Clinical Studies at Southwestern University School of Law, where he was a fully tenured professor teaching lawyering skills, family law and community property.

Rob moved to Seattle in 1979 and initially worked for the Legal Services Corporation as the Regional Training Coordinator, and then for Evergreen Legal Services as a senior litigator. Rob has been in private practice since 1981. He has brought class actions on behalf of consumers and employees, won the largest verdict in the nation for migrant farm workers’ damages for wrongful termination, and represents injured persons, especially men and women injured in the maritime industry or who work for railroads. More recently Rob has been heavily involved in class action litigation, bringing claims on behalf of workers and consumers for failure to pay proper wages, sending junk faxes, making “robo-calls” to homes and businesses, and to recover illegal charges made by banks when home loans are paid. Rob has been approved as Class Counsel by many state and federal judges in over 30 cases.

Kim Williams

Kim Williams attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, served as a VISTA Volunteer for the Florida Probation and Parole Commission, and then attended Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon, graduating from law school in 1978. She practiced law at the Richland, Washington firm of Critchlow & Williams, primarily representing injured persons and others in civil litigation matters until 1984 when she moved to Seattle. In Seattle, Kim initially represented labor unions and employee benefits trusts, and, for the past 15 years, her practice has been limited to representation of plaintiffs in consumer and class action cases, including wage claim matters, and in injury cases. Kim is an active member of the Washington State Association for Justice (formerly Washington State Trial Lawyers Association), and has served on several WSTLA committees and on the WSTLA Board of Directors.

Staff

Fees

We represent clients in class actions on a contingent fee basis, meaning that we charge a percentage of any recovery that we obtain behalf of the class, whether through settlement, arbitration or trial. Our fees in class cases are carefully scrutinized by the Courts to make sure they are fair to the class. Clients who are willing to serve as class representatives are not responsible for advancing any costs because Washington Rules for Professional Responsibility permit attorneys to advance such costs in order to prosecute class actions.

We also represent injury clients on a contingent fee basis which is normally between 30% and 40% depending upon the type of case, although our standard contingency fee is 33 1/3%.

Costs are incurred in the course of representing our injury clients. These costs include obtaining copies of medical records, taking depositions, filing fees, photocopies, telephone charges, expenses for expert witnesses, travel, and other items. If you are unable to pay costs as your case progresses, we will advance the costs, which will be reimbursed from your share of any settlement, award or judgment.

Our bookkeeper can let you know at any time the amount of expenses that have been advanced on your behalf. We can provide you with the total advanced and the specific expenses that are involved.

In all cases we are required to obtain a written fee agreement from you. It will state specific terms of the contingent fee, including the advancing of expenses, and address other pertinent issues.