 Shelley
M. Hall - Legal Advisor
Shelley is a shareholder with a commercial litigation
practice emphasizing class actions and other complex
cases at the trial court and appellate levels. Shelley
also practices in the First Amendment and media law
field, with experience in access to government records,
meetings and courts; defense of defamation and privacy
claims; and intellectual property litigation.
Representative Cases:
Media Cases
• Represented newspaper in successfully unsealing
court records in several cases.
• Represented newspaper in successfully quashing
motion that would have prevented reporting of criminal
trial.
• Represented newspaper in successfully obtaining
access to thousands of withheld government records regarding
an investigation of the Tacoma Police Department.
• Submitted amicus brief to Washington Supreme
Court in Spokane Research & Defense Fund v. City
of Spokane, 155 Wn.2d 89 (2005), on behalf of Washington
Coalition for Open Government and Allied Newspapers
in successful effort to obtain disclosure of public
records.
Complex Litigation
• Represented software company in trademark infringement
lawsuit against Microsoft, and argued federal preliminary
injunction motion in case. Achieved positive settlement
for client.
• Represented financial advisors and firms in
various non competition/non solicitation and trade secrets
disputes, including in federal and state courts and
in arbitration.
• Defended telecommunications companies in several
consumer class action lawsuits in state and federal
courts.
Other Experience:
Shelley was associated with the firm Davis Wright Tremaine
prior to joining Stokes Lawrence. Shelley also served
as a law clerk to the Honorable William L. Dwyer at
the United States District Court for the Western District
of Washington. During law school, Shelley received a
Goldmark Fellowship to spend a summer at the Northwest
Justice Project providing federally funded legal services
to low-income clients.
In her life prior to law, Shelley spent four years working
as a daily news producer at KING-TV in Seattle.
Activities:
Shelley is a member of the Northwest Communications
Law Group and is on the amicus pro bono panel of the
Washington Coalition for Open Government. She serves
on the Newsgathering Committee of the Media Law Resource
Center. Shelley regularly presents seminars to attorneys,
government workers, and the public on access to government
records and meetings.
Outside the legal field, Shelley has served on the Board
of Trustees of the Pacific Northwest Ballet. She also
was a founding member and president of Backstage Pass,
an audience development group for the Pacific Northwest
Ballet. Shelley has served in the past as a funding
associate for Artsfund and as docent for the Bellevue
Art Museum.
Education:
Shelley obtained her law degree from the University
of Washington School of Law, Order of the Coif, in 1998,
where she was a contributing editor of the Washington
Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Honor Board.
Shelley received her B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern
University's Medill School of Journalism in 1991.
Admissions:
Shelley is admitted to the Washington State Bar, the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts
of Washington, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit. Shelley is a member of the American Bar
Association’s Communications Forum and the ABA’s
Women in Communications group.
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