Professional Experience
Rob Crichton is a litigation attorney with extensive experience in a broad range of complex commercial matters, including banking litigation and business tort actions involving unfair competition and misappropriation of intellectual property and other trade secrets. His practice also focuses on real estate litigation, including issues of nondisclosure and misrepresentation, enforcement of restrictive covenants, and boundary disputes. In addition, he represents securities firms and their investors in securities disputes. Rob has successfully conducted trials in a variety of federal and state courts. Before joining Keller Rohrback in 1991, Rob practiced law in New York City.

Education

Brown University - B.A., magna cum laude, 1977

New York University School of Law - J.D., 1982

Bar/Court Admissions

1983, New York

1986, U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

1986, U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

1988, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

1991, Washington

1991, U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

1992, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

1998, U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Professional & Civic Involvement

King County Bar Association, Member

Washington State Bar Association, Member

American Bar Association, Member; Litigation, Business Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Tort and Insurance Practice Sections

Pro bono attorney for Youth and Outreach Services, a Washington not-for-profit corporation offering transitional housing for homeless teenage girls in its facility known as The Dove House

Pro bono litigation attorney for Bainbridge Island Land Trust

Gavel & Hammer Society, Steering Committee (building houses in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity)

Published Opinions

Trost v. Aesthetic Litetouch, Inc., 2009 WL 1917072 (Wash. App. Div. 1), rvw denied, 168 Wn.2d 1004 (2010)

S. Kitsap Family Worship Center v. Weir, 135 Wn. App. 900 (2006)

Robert K. Zabka, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, 131 Wn. App. 167 (2005)

Silverdale Water District No. 16 v. Bucklin Hill, Inc., 105 Wn. App. 1031 (2001)

Curtis v. Chinn, 100 Wn. App. 1070 (2000)

Pretzer and Hapner v. Seattle-First National Bank, 1996 WL 279839 (Wash. App. Div. 1)

Halvorson v. Skagit County, 42 F.3d 1257 (9th Cir. 1994)

Planet Insurance Company, v. Kwok-Ho Wong, et al., 74 Wn. App. 905 (1994)

Federal Insurance Company v. Arthur Anderson & Co., 553 N.Y.S.2d 291 (Ct. App.1990)

Schmidt v. Park Ave. Bank, N.A., 558 N.Y.S.2d 779, (N.Y.Sup. 1990)

Lloyd I. Isler, P.C. v. Sutter, 544 N.Y.S.2d 253 (1st Dept. 1990)

Lazar v. Nico Industries, Inc., 559 N.Y.S.2d 326 (1st Dept. 1990)

Sivel v. Readers Digest, Inc., 677 F.Supp. 183 (S.D.N.Y. 1988)

E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc. v. First Florida Securities, Inc., 654 F. Supp. 1132 (S.D.N.Y. 1987)

People v. James, 497 N.Y.S.2d 730 (2d Dept. 1986)