Ken M. Roessler

Mr. Roessler is an associate attorney with Forsberg & Umlauf, P.S. His practice areas include products liability, insurance defense litigation, construction site injury defense, admiralty and maritime matters, premises liability, and municipal liability.

E-Mail: kroessler@forsberg-umlauf.com

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• Experience:
  Mr. Roessler has a diverse and interesting background in other career fields, including foreign-language intelligence collection while in the U.S. Air Force, international trade, and shipping. He has also previously worked as a legal secretary and paralegal with other law firms, and has worked on personal injury litigation, workers’ compensation, probate & estate planning, contract disputes, construction defect cases, admiralty, products liability, premises liability defense, and environmental litigation.

• Education:
  Defense Language Institute, Russian Basic Course, Diploma w/Honors, 1988
  Southern Oregon State College, B.A., Cum Laude, 1994
  Seattle University School of Law, J.D., Cum Laude, 2001

• Admitted To Bar:
  Washington
  United States District Court, Western District of Washington
  United States District Court, Eastern District of Washington
  United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

• Memberships:
  Washington State Bar Association
  King County Bar Association
  Seattle University Law Review, Research and Technical Editor, 1999-2001
  Washington Defense Trial Lawyers
  Defense Research Institute

• Recent Lectures, Seminars and Publications:

  • Casenote "Seller Beware: Tort Reform is Missing in Action; Soproni, Falk, and the Entrenchment of Strict Products Liability in Washington" 24 Seattle U.L. Rev. 989 (2001).

  • "Exporting to the Russian Far East", in The Journal of Commerce, national trade newspaper, Nov. 17, 1997