Brett Murphy-Washington's Injury Lawyers

Chairman, Moot Court Council, 1973-1974. Lecturer in Law, Substitute, Litigation Conduct, Gonzaga University School of Law, 1978. Adjunct Professor: Columbia College, 1976; Fort Wright College, 1977; Skagit Valley College, 1988. Deputy Public Defender, Spokane County, 1975-1976. Chief Criminal Deputy, Prosecutor's Office, Skagit County, 1982-1984. Judge Pro Tempore, Spokane County District Court...

I am a lifelong resident of the Greater Seattle region. My family moved here in the 1880's, even before Washington was a state. My great-great grandfather brought his family west in a covered wagon from Illinois on the Oregon Trail. He became the U.S. Marshall in Salem, Oregon, and was later the first Chief of Police in Spokane. My other great grandparents emigrated here and homesteaded in east...

I was born in an army hospital in Fort Knox, Kentucky. My father was in the army, and before I was a year old and my older brother two years old, my father had died in Vietnam. A widow at 24 years of age with two babies in diapers, my mother felt that the best education she could give my brother and me was real world experience. So for a year, when I was a junior in high school, we backpacked...

Dean Brett knew early on that he wanted to be an attorney, and after putting himself through Stanford Law School he created the firm of Brett & Daugert with a fellow classmate who had the same vision. While this firm grew steadily and became one of the premier law firms in Whatcom County, Dean realized that he really enjoyed working with personal injury and wrongful death clients. These cases let...