Washington Workers Compensation Lawyers

Workers Compensation Law

8204 Green Lake Drive N, Seattle, WA 98103

Workers Compensation Law

8204 Green Lake Dr N, Seattle, WA 98103, USA

Christine A. Foster has been devoted to representing injured workers since 1992. Prior to opening her own law practice, she worked for the Office of the Attorney General representing the Department of Labor and Industries. She is a member in good standing with the Washington State Bar Association, Washington Associate for Justice (WSAJ) and listed in Who’s Who in American Law. Christine has spoken before both peer and community groups on workers’ compensation, trial strategy and the overlap between employment law and workers’ compensation. She is a contributing author to the Workers’ Compensation Deskbook for Attorneys (2009) with her chapter on total disability (time loss and pension benefits). Ms. Foster graduated, cum laude, from the University of Puget Sound, School of law, now Seattle University, in 1988.

Workers Compensation Law

300 Lenora St #380, Seattle, WA 98121, USA

Area of Practice: Federal Workers' Compensation under the Longshore Act and the Defense Base Act Christy Johnson grew up in Alaska and worked on commercial fishing vessels in the Bering Sea, Pacific Ocean, and South Pacific. After ten years at sea, Ms. Johnson retired her fishing boots and obtained her Bachelors and Juris Doctorate from Gonzaga and Gonzaga Law School. Ms. Johnson then became licensed to practice law in Alaska where she practiced family law for a brief period. Not happy with the practice of family law and wanting to stay true to her roots, Ms. Johnson moved to New Orleans and obtained her Legal Masters in Maritime/Admiralty Law from Tulane Law School. Following the completion of her Legal Masters program, Ms. Johnson became licensed in Louisiana and spent ten years working as a defense attorney handling personal injury cases under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA), the Defense Base Act (DBA), and the Jones Act. In January 2019, Ms. Johnson left the defense bar and formed Mainstay Law LLC where she focusses her practice on representing injured workers’ under the LHWCA and the DBA. Because of her extensive offshore experiences and her maritime defense work, Ms. Johnson brings a unique perspective to her practice. She understands the hardships faced by those who work, and are injured, in austere environments. Furthermore, Ms. Johnson has personal knowledge as to how insurance carriers view workers’ compensation cases such as yours and how they develop their defense strategies against you. This gives Ms. Johnson an ability to help you navigate through your workers’ compensation case and best preserve your rights to medical and indemnity benefits under the LHWCA and the DBA. Ms. Johnson’s DBA practice takes her across the nation and around the world so wherever you reside, Ms. Johnson is ready to stand up for you.