Megan L. Wernli
A bioengineering degree from the University of Washington before law, which her firm says shapes how she reads hospital records. Her firm's rideshare page publishes a King County ride-hailing permit count with no source attached — exactly the kind of metro-level number this site was rebuilt to stop printing. We have not republished it.
The bar record
We read Megan L. Wernli 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the information is provided voluntarily by the licensed legal professional and might be incomplete, inaccurate, and/or out of date.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 firm’s rideshare page opens with a specific King County ride-hailing permit count for 2021 and attributes it to nobody. We are not reprinting the figure. This site once carried eighteen fabricated statistics of exactly that shape, and the rule that came out of it is the first one we follow: no number without a source.Verified
That is a comment on the page, not on the lawyer. Firm marketing copy routinely carries numbers it cannot source; noticing it is the job.Verified
Her register practice areas are Personal Injury and Torts — among the narrowest, and the most consistent with the listing, in this batch.Verified
What the firm says
She says she took a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering at the University of Washington and graduated cum laude from Seattle University School of Law in 2012, having been a Rule 9 intern at Dore Deutscher Law Group and a clerk at the Washington State Office of the Attorney General.Reported
She says she has represented clients in King, Snohomish, Pierce, Clallam, Chelan, Yakima and Thurston counties, and joined Bernard Law Group in 2015.Reported
Her firm describes itself as Seattle’s best personal injury law firm and states a nine-figure recovery total. Both are the firm’s claims; we print no recovery figures and no unsourced superlatives.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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