Seattle Personal Injury Lawyer

We are a personal injury law firm with a staffed Seattle office handling Washington claims under Washington law, which matters because Washington gives injured people a full year longer to file than California does and a firm working from the wrong deadline is a firm working from the wrong plan.



You need a lawyer who practices here, not one who treats Washington as an overflow market.

Our Seattle Office

5608 17th Avenue NW Seattle, WA 98107 (855) 752-9911

A working office in Ballard with our own attorneys and staff. Washington cases are handled here rather than referred to outside counsel, and you can come in and meet the people working on yours.

You Have Three Years in Washington, Not Two

Washington gives most injury victims three years from the date of injury to file a lawsuit, under RCW 4.16.080. California allows two. That difference is genuine and it is one of the few places where being represented by a firm that practices in both states is a practical advantage rather than a marketing line.

Three years also sounds like more time than it is. Evidence degrades on its own schedule regardless of the filing deadline. Surveillance footage is routinely overwritten within weeks, vehicles get repaired or scrapped, witnesses move and stop returning calls, and the memory of exactly where a vehicle was when you first saw it fades faster than anyone expects.

Claims against government entities are also structurally different, and in Seattle that covers a real share of cases: collisions involving King County Metro or Sound Transit vehicles, City of Seattle vehicles, and injuries caused by dangerous conditions on public property. Under RCW 4.96.020, a claim against a local government entity has to be presented to that entity's designated agent, and then sixty calendar days must pass before a lawsuit can be filed at all. The three-year clock is paused during those sixty days. Claims against the State of Washington, including state highways, follow a parallel process with its own sixty-day wait. Most local government claims also have to be delivered in person or by mail, because email and fax are not recognized methods of presentment.

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Serious injury cases cost money to run properly. Accident reconstruction, medical experts, economists, and litigation itself all require a firm that can fund the work while the case is pending, and that is the constraint that quietly determines what a lot of claims settle for.

The Law Offices of David P. Kashani, A.P.L.C. operates four offices across two states, in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland, staffed by one team. David Kashani handles each client's case personally, the way he would if a member of his own family had been injured. We also serve clients in English, Spanish, and Farsi. Our record of recoveries is listed on our results page, and our clients describe the experience in their own words on our testimonials page.

A Four-Office Firm With a Seattle Practice

Interstate 90 Decides Which Courthouse Hears Your Case

This is a real rule, not a figure of speech, and it surprises most people.

King County Superior Court operates two case assignment areas, and every civil case filed in the county has to designate one of them on a Case Assignment Designation Form at filing. Under King County Local Civil Rule 82(e), the Seattle Case Assignment Area is defined as all of King County north of Interstate 90, including the I-90 right-of-way itself, plus the cities of Seattle, Mercer Island, Bellevue, Issaquah, and North Bend, and Vashon and Maury Islands. Everything else in the county falls into the Kent Case Assignment Area.

Seattle Area cases are heard at the King County Courthouse at 516 Third Avenue in downtown Seattle. Kent Area cases go to the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, roughly twenty miles south.

The practical consequence is odd but worth knowing. A collision on I-90 itself is a Seattle Area case, because the right-of-way is included. A collision a mile south of I-90 in Tukwila or Renton is a Kent Area case, and you would be driving to Kent for hearings. Getting the designation wrong means the Clerk can reject your filing. It is a small thing that a firm unfamiliar with King County practice can get wrong on day one.

Our Washington Credentials, Not Just Our Washington Address

An office in a state is not the same thing as a practice in it. Here is the substance behind ours.

David Kashani is a member of the Washington State Bar, admitted to practice in Washington rather than appearing here by special permission on a case-by-case basis. He is also a member of the Washington State Association for Justice, Washington's plaintiff-side trial bar, which is the association Washington injury lawyers join and is not open to firms that merely refer cases into the state.

He is admitted in five states in total, California, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, and Arizona, and he is a member of the American Association for Justice nationally. In practice that means a claim with a Washington plaintiff and an out-of-state defendant, which is common in trucking and product cases, does not need to be split between two firms.

His full background, education, and the complete list of admissions and memberships are on our About page.

• Car, truck, motorcycle, and rideshare collisions.
• Pedestrian and bicycle collisions.
• Uninsured and underinsured motorist claims.
• Slip and fall and premises liability claims.
• Construction site injuries.
• Catastrophic injuries and wrongful death claims.

Commercial trucking cases are handled differently from ordinary collisions, and our Seattle truck accident lawyers cover those specifically. Our statewide guidance on truck accident claims and car accident claims explains how each is investigated, our catastrophic injury practice covers how permanent-injury claims are valued, and our full personal injury practice sets out everything we handle.

Questions We Hear From Injured Washingtonians