Steven T. O'Ban
Steve believes that the calling of a lawyer is to provide vigorous advocacy and good judgment. Both are essential to fully serving the client’s interest. Clients need an advocate who zealously advances their cause without losing sight of the fact that he is their representative and should reflect their values. Steve’s passion is to represent his clients with tenacity and decency.
Steve is one of the firm’s senior trial lawyers. He has been rated by his peers as a Super Lawyer, argued successfully before the Washington State Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and litigated high-profile cases that gained national attention in the Wall Street Journal, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” USA Today, and other national media outlets.
Steve represents individuals and small businesses, non-profits and insurance companies, local small business owners and foreign corporations. He has helped those injured in avoidable tragedies, workers taken advantage of by their union, employers sued simply because they are a deep pocket, employees discriminated against by their employers, and charitable organizations whose good works are threatened by expensive and frivolous claims. In defending the widely disparate interests of these clients, his approach is the same: He earns his client’s trust and fights hard to get them the best possible result.
Areas of Practice
Education
Seattle University School of Law, J.D., 1987
University of Washington, B.A., with distinction, 1984
Reported Cases
Spencer v. World Vision, Inc, 570 F. Supp.2d 1279 (W.D.Wash. 2008)
Davenport v. Washington Educ. Ass'n, 147 Wash.App. 704, 197 P.3d 686 (2008)
Washington v. Washington Educ. Ass'n, 548 U.S. 942, 127 S.Ct. 356 (2007)
Stormans, Inc. v. Selecky, 524 F.Supp.2d 1245 (W.D.Wash. 2007)
MacDonald v. Grace Church Seattle, 457 F.3d 1079 (9th Cir. 2006)
Andersen v. King County, 158 Wash.2d 1, 138 P.3d 963 (2006)
Mackay v. Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Ass'n-Seattle Local 14, 85 Fed.Appx. 605 (9th Cir. 2004)
State ex rel. Evergreen Freedom Foundation v. National Educ. Ass'n, 119 Wash.App. 445, 81 P.3d 911 (2003)
State v. Martin, 137 Wn.2d 774, 975 P.2d 1020 (1999)
