Updated at 7:12 p.m., Monday, July 16, 2007
Ninth Circuit's top 2007 lawyer is from Seattle
Advertiser Staff
Trial attorney Fredric C. Tausend of Seattle was recognized as the most outstanding lawyer practicing in the federal courts of the western United States at the 2007 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference that opened today in Hawai'i.Attorneys Albert F. Pagni and J. Richard Creatura of the Ninth Circuit Advisory Board presented Tausend with the John P. Frank Award at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel.
Tausend's legal career spans nearly 50 years and since 1990, he has been a senior counsel at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP, in Seattle. In nominating him for the award, his colleagues noted that Tausend recognized the need for diversity long before the rest of the legal profession and advocated quietly on behalf of women and minority races.
More than 800 judges, judiciary employees, representatives of government agencies and private attorneys are here for the four-day conference. The Ninth Circuit includes the districts of northern, central, eastern and southern California, and also Hawai'i, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and eastern and western Washington plus the U.S. Territory of Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
