Matthew T. Russell
His own biography says his practice is “100% personal injury”; his register says Criminal, Disability and Personal Injury. Both are his own words, filed in two places. He sits on a local school board and coaches youth basketball.
The bar record
We read Matthew T. Russell 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. One listing in this city does display an entry — which is how we know the dash means what we say it means.
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the information is provided voluntarily by the licensed legal professional and might be incomplete, inaccurate, and/or out of date.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
His biography states under Areas of Practice: 100% personal injury. His WSBA record lists Criminal, Disability, Personal Injury. Both were filled in by him. Neither is checked by anyone, which is the point.Verified
He was admitted in Washington on 21 June 2001 and says he was admitted in Oregon in 2014 and in both Washington federal districts. WSBA has no other-state field.Verified
His address of record is in Everett, about twenty-eight miles north — inside the metro, and closer than Lakewood or Bonney Lake on this page.Verified
What the firm says
He says he was raised in rural Minnesota, took his undergraduate degree at Clemson magna cum laude and his J.D. at Hamline University School of Law in 2000, and founded the firm with Jim Hill in 2005.Reported
He says he serves on a local school board, coaches youth basketball, mentors mock trial students, and is a board member of MercyWatch, a Snohomish County homelessness charity.Reported
He says he is a member of the Washington and Oregon bar associations and both states’ trial lawyer associations.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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