Lauren Mariko Wegener
Read this listing narrowly. Her register says one thing and her website says another, on two separate fields. WSBA holds her at Bradley Johnson Lawyers with a single practice area — Criminal. Her own biography is published by Emerald City Law Group, which describes her as its owner and managing attorney, and lists DUI, assault, theft and fraud first, with personal injury under other practice areas.
The bar record
We read Lauren Mariko Wegener in the Washington State Bar Association’s legal directory. Rows shaded below the line are the ones WSBA labels as coming from the lawyer, not from the Bar.
Washington never says “none”, so neither do we. The Disciplinary History section carries no entries and no statement — only a warning that in some cases discipline search results will not reveal all disciplinary action relating to a Washington licensed legal professional, and may not display links to the official decision documents. So what we can report is narrow: no disciplinary entries are displayed, and WSBA warns its search may not display everything. That is not the sentence “this lawyer has no discipline”, and we will not write the second when the register only supports the first. Every other state we use answers out loud; this one does not.
And the shaded rows might be wrong. Above that block WSBA states that the information is provided voluntarily by the licensed legal professional and might be incomplete, inaccurate, and/or out of date. Texas calls its equivalent “self-reported”. Washington says it might be wrong. Note also the Judicial Service line: asked whether this lawyer has ever served as a judge, the register answers Unknown. A register that will print its own ignorance is rarer than it should be.
What the record shows
The WSBA record gives her firm as Bradley Johnson Lawyers, her email as Lauren@BJLfirm.com, her website as bjattorneys.com and her practice area as Criminal — one word, nothing else.Verified
The biography supplied to us is published by Emerald City Law Group, which calls her its owner and managing attorney. Its “Areas of Focus” list is DUI, assault and violent crime, theft, fraud, probation violations, drug crimes, felonies and misdemeanours. Personal injury appears below that, under Other Practice Areas.Verified
Both things can be true at once — the register block is self-reported, and WSBA says plainly that it might be out of date. What we will not do is print a rideshare listing as though the register supported it. It does not. The rideshare page belongs to the firm her own biography is on, and it names her as an attorney there.Verified
What the firm says
She says she earned a B.A. at the University of Washington with a double major in Philosophy and Law, Societies, and Justice, and a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law, and worked at the state Attorney General’s Office on assault crimes during law school.Reported
She says she worked as a public defender in the greater Seattle area before joining a private criminal defence firm in 2008.Reported
She says she is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, King County Bar Association, American Bar Association, Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the King and Snohomish County chapters of Washington Women Lawyers and the ACLU.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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