Shawn Briggs
Thirty-nine years at the bar, in a firm he formed with his father — Robert R. Briggs, who his site says had been a trial lawyer since 1952. That makes the practice's claimed lineage older than any other on this site, though only Shawn's own record is bar-checked here. His register carries no website.
The bar record
We read Shawn Briggs 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the information is provided voluntarily by the licensed legal professional and might be incomplete, inaccurate, and/or out of date.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
He says he joined his father Robert R. Briggs, a trial lawyer since 1952, and that together they formed Briggs & Briggs. Only his own admission — 29 October 1986 — is on the register. The firm’s “over sixty years” is a lineage claim, not a licence.Verified
His WSBA record carries no website, and gives three practice areas: Litigation, Malpractice and Personal Injury.Verified
His address of record is in Lakewood, Pierce County — about forty miles south, and within the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro.Verified
What the firm says
He says he graduated cum laude from the University of Puget Sound School of Law in 1986 and is a Fellow of the National College of Advocacy and a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.Reported
He says he was elected to chair the Small Office Practice Section of the American Association for Justice and was a founding member of its Low-Speed Impact Group.Reported
He says he has been named a Super Lawyer by Washington Law & Politics and a top trial lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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