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Bob Anderton

John McHale

Dave Catechi

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About Bob

Bob Anderton is rated AV®Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5 by Martindale-Hubbell. He has the highest possible ratings for Legal Knowledge, Analytical Capabilities, Judgment, Communication Ability, and Legal Experience. AVVO rates Bob as a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10 for experience, industry recognition and professional conduct.

Bob is a daily bike commuter with almost two decades of experience in successfully representing injured bicyclists. The idea of "bike law" was unknown as bicyclists started becoming the majority of Bob's clients. Bob is also experienced in representing pedestrians, as well as people injured in motor vehicle collisions, on construction sites, and in other unsafe places. He has also represented persons whose insurance companies acted in bad faith.

In addition to representing bicyclists and other injured persons, Bob serves as an Arbitrator for King County Superior Court and as a court-appointed Settlement Guardian ad Litem. Bob was an instructor in the required trainings for King County Settlement Guardian ad Litems in 2004 and 2011. This quasi-judicial and public interest law work gives him a broader perspective to help advocate for his individual clients.

Bob enjoys writing and has a degree in journalism. His scholarly work was published in the Iowa Law Review in 1992. Later in the 1990s, Bob served as a reporter and editor for publications of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association and the Washington State Bar Association. From 2001 to 2005, Bob was editor of The Bar Bulletin, the King County Bar Association's official publication.

About John

John McHale has been practicing law for over twenty years and has worked as a civil litigator, public defender, and a King County prosecuting attorney in both the criminal and civil divisions. John has extensive trial experience. He practices in both Federal and State courts and has successfully argued civil and criminal cases in the Washington State Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

John has been a daily bike commuter for over 25 years and currently races on the road and on cyclocross courses for Team 2020/Fuel. John is a Member of the Washington State Bicycle Association, the Cascade Bicycle Club and the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. John serves on the Board of the Plymouth Housing Group and is a Volunteer Attorney with the King County Bar Association's Legal Assistance for the Homeless Program.  In 2006,  John was the program's Volunteer of the Year.

John is experienced in products liability law as well as standard tort claims and has represented numerous persons who were injured by defectively designed or manufactured products.

About Dave

Dave Catechi brings big firm experience to Anderton Law Office. Before joining this office in 2010, Dave was a lawyer at a large San Francisco law firm.

Dave is an Eagle Member of the Washington State Association for Justice. His prior experience includes time with Northern District of California Judge Charles R. Breyer, the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, and the City of Seattle's Neighborhood Planning Office.

Dave enjoys helping people in need. He has volunteered at the nonprofit writing and tutoring center 826 and the East Bay Community Law Center Clean Slate Clinic.

Dave is married to a clinical psychologist and is the proud father of two young boys.

Dave is an excellent listener. He understands people and especially enjoys going the extra mile for his individual clients.

Seattle Personal Injury Lawyers

Bob Anderton

John McHale

Dave Catechi

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South Park Gets Library

Bob chaired the South Park Library Steering Committee that obtained $2.5 million in funding in 2000 to open a library in an under-served neighborhood.

The West Seattle Herald on September 5, 2006 quoted him (Anderton) as follows: "Access to books and computers could make a huge difference for the many South Park residents who are low-income or English language learners … This is the kind of development that is not about gentrification - it's making it better for everyone," said Anderton. "This is not a Starbucks." Anderton couldn't help but recognize the new library came too late for "people who have come and gone from South Park and who could have developed literacy and didn't." "But it's a wonderful development for now and the future," said Anderton. "Who could be against a library?"

Cyclists sue Seattle over trolley tracks - KOMO News June 2, 2010

[...] Bob Anderton, a lawyer who rides his bike to work every day, is representing six cyclists injured by the tracks [...] He claims the city ignored warnings about South Lake Union's trolley tracks from planners it hired to assess the design. "Many different people said that this was fatally flawed and that bicycle crashes were highly foreseeable and they did it anyway," Anderton said. Anderton says the cyclists' tires got stuck in the trolley track grooves. "We've had fractured elbows, broken wrists, broken teeth, broken jaws," he said.[...]

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