Focus of Practice

25 years of civil litigation with focus on business disputes, consumer disputes, real estate, product liability and maritime.

Legal Experience

Matt Turetsky Mediation/Arbitration PLLC (Feb. 2019 to present), Member/Mediator/Arbitrator. Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt (1994 to February 2019), Shareholder; civil litigation with trials in State and Federal Court.

Court Admissions

Washington State, U.S.D.C. Western District of Washington, U.S.D.C. Eastern District of Washington, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Western District of Washington.

Education

B.A. University of Washington (1987); J.D. U.C. Hastings College of the Law (1994)

Professional Associations

American Bar Association, Washington State Bar Association, King County Bar Association, Washington SuperLawyer (2014-2018).

ADR Training

6 full day training course at Pepperdine University School of Law's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution training; Mediating the Litigated Case; (8/3/15-8/8/15). Attended or listened to audio CLEs on: Alternatives to the Conventional Joint Session, First Offers and Counteroffers; Structured Negotiation; Negotiation in Mediation; Effective Evaluation and Mediation of Employment Discrimination Cases; How the Mediation Process Has Changed; Successful Negotiations/Key Techniques for All Lawyers; Selected Ethics Issues in Mediation; Strategic Use of Mediation to Resolve Employment Disputes; When Mediation Participants Are a Handful; Settlement Strategies for Trust and Estate Disputes; Neuroscience in Mediation and Negotiation; and How E-discovery Mediation Can Save Your Clients Time and Money. I received WSBA CLE credits for the following presentations about mediation: LIT Education Series - Playing a Key Role in Mediation; Getting Back to the Courtroom: Litigation Strategies for the Effective Resolution of Cases Before and During Trial. I also presided over more than 650 mediations and forty arbitrations. In the last 36 months, I have attended CLEs on The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Art of Negotiation (60 minutes), The Ethics and Art of Settlement at Mediation (60 minutes), Evaluating and Negotiating Insurance Bad Faith Cases (90 minutes), Successful Negotiations in Presidential History (90 minutes), Legal Ethics in the Mediation Process (60 minutes), The Mediator’s Toolkit: 15 Strategies Toward a Successful Mediation (75 minutes), and Cultural Awareness: Tips and Tools for Today’s Legal Practitioner (130 minutes). Also in the last 36 months, I have presided over more than 400 mediations.

ADR Experience

650+ mediations as mediator; 50+ mediations and arbitrations as lead counsel; 5+ as Arbitrator in King County Mandatory Arbitration Program, 40+ as American Arbitration Association (AAA) Arbitrator.

ADR Practice Areas

Admiralty/Maritime, Business Litigation, Construction, Employment, Real Property