Business and Corporate Law

• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  Griff has been with the firm (formerly Seligmann, Dreiling and Beckermann) since 1987. He started as an intern while still in law school, eventually becoming a partner. His
• Business Transactions

Employment Law

• Employment Litigation
  Griff focuses on representing small businesses with their legal needs, including dispute resolution and litigation; contract drafting; employment issues and trademark applications. He also represents clients with real estate issues: litigating disputes; negotiating leases, resolving legal issues arising from the sale of residential and commercial property, and drafting related documents; and resolving disputes over landlord tenant matters, liens and easements. He has extensive experience in construction litigation, having represented design professionals as well as dozens of homeowners, contractors and subcontractors.

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions
  Practice is divided evenly between litigation and transactional work. He represents individuals and small businesses in drafting documents as well as avoiding and resolving disputes over commercial transactions, construction projects, real estate transactions, easements and business dissolutions. He has substantial experience litigating disputes through trial, as well as resolving disputes through alternative dispute resolution processes, such as mediation and arbitration. He served for ten years as an arbitrator for the King County Superior Court Mandatory Arbitration system.
• Easement
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Practice Lovie Bernardi focuses her practice on estate planning and probate. In 2009, Lovie became office manager of the firm after taking a break from the practice of law to raise her son. In 2011, Gene Seligmann, one of the firm’s partners, began winding down his practice and asked Lovie assist him in his estate planning and probate practice. Lovie took over Gene’s practice as of January 1, 2016.
• Wills
• Trusts
  Lovie focuses her practice on estate planning and probate and trust administration. She assists clients with their estate plans, including drafting wills, trusts, durable powers of attorney for finances and health care and health care directives. She helps families through the probate process when a loved one dies, from the filing of the will to the closing of the estate.
• Power of Attorney
• Probate