Practice

• Medical Professional Liability Defense
  
• Licensing and Disciplinary Actions
  
• Personal Injury Defense

Education

• Seattle University School of Law, J.D., 2016
  
• Seattle University, B.A., Psychology, 2012

Admitted to Practice

• State of Washington
• United States District Court – Western District of Washington

Professional Experience

• Fain Anderson VanDerhoef Rosendahl O’Halloran Spillane, PLLC, Principal, 2023 – Present
• Fain Anderson VanDerhoef Rosendahl O’Halloran Spillane, PLLC, Associate, 2016 – 2023
• Washington State Supreme Court Justice, Full-time
  Judicial Extern to Justice Charles Wiggins, January 2016 – May 2016
  
• Hughes Robbins, P.S., Rule 9 Law Clerk, February 2015 – January 2016
  
• Thorsrud, Cane & Paulich, Summer Law Clerk, May 2014 – August 2014
  

Professional Memberships

• Washington Defense Trial Lawyers
• American Bar Association
• Washington State Bar Association
  
• King County Bar Association

Representative Cases

• Eron Z. Cannon and Caitlyn Spencer completed a three-week long medical malpractice trial, representing a General Surgeon, who performed a primary anastomosis to the mid-transverse colon to fix a perforation. Plaintiff suffered from sepsis, respiratory failure, multiple surgeries over 3 years, PTSD and was near death. Plaintiffs’ counsel asked the jury to award $6 million. The jury rendered a unanimous defense verdict.
• Unanimous defense verdict in medical malpractice case where plaintiff alleged client orthopedic surgeon was negligent in performing total hip replacement surgery and related post-operative care
• Defense verdict on behalf of a neuroradiologist, in a medical malpractice case tried in King County. Plaintiff claimed that the physician was negligent for failing to diagnose a vestibular schwannoma on a non-contrast head CT. The defense demonstrated that the physician conducted a complete and thorough review of the non-contrast head CT and fully complied with the standard of care. The jury agreed with the defense and returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the physician.
• Defense verdict on behalf of a plastic surgeon, in a medical malpractice case tried in King County.  The plaintiff alleged that the surgeon negligently left a piece of sterile gauze in her breast following a breast augmentation surgery and that the gauze caused capsular contracture and resulting injuries.  The defense admitted a standard of care violation but disputed causation and damages.  Following a two week trial, the jury rendered a defense verdict and found that the gauze did not cause any injuries and was an incidental finding.

Publications & Presentations

• Author, Power e-Mergency: Combining Renewable Energy with Current Battery Technology for Emergency Medical Professionals, 6 Seattle Journal for Environmental Law 178 (2016).