SERVING SEATTLE FROM BELLEVUE · SINCE 1965
Seattle Business, Real Estate & Litigation Attorneys
A short drive across Lake Washington puts our attorneys in downtown Seattle, where the firm has handled matters for six decades.
Seattle and the Eastside share a courthouse system, a business economy, and about ten miles of Interstate 90. Oseran Hahn has practiced on both sides of Lake Washington since 1965. Our clients in Seattle tend to be the same kinds of people we serve everywhere: founders and owner-operators (including engineers who left Amazon to start companies), commercial property owners, families with real assets, and companies that have outgrown handshake agreements but do not want the bill that comes with a downtown tower firm. Seattle's economy runs on technology, maritime trade, healthcare, and a commercial real estate market that never quite cools. Each of those generates the transactional and dispute work the firm was built to handle. We meet Seattle clients at their offices, at ours in Bellevue, or by video. And we file in the courthouse that is, for most Seattle matters, the one we already use.
Local context
In Seattle, the gap between a boutique firm's costs and a large firm's is easy to see. The city's business and real estate matters are handled, more often than not, by large downtown firms carrying large downtown overhead. Oseran Hahn offers the same substantive work (mergers and acquisitions, commercial leasing and acquisition, financings, commercial litigation, and estate planning for people with real wealth) with a partner on the file the whole way through, at a cost structure that reflects a Bellevue office rather than a top-floor Seattle one. The firm's litigation group tries commercial contract disputes, real estate cases, partnership breakups, and trust contests in King County Superior Court. Part of that work is telling a client when a fight is not worth having and a settlement beats a slow win. Our transactional attorneys close real estate and business deals across the city, from South Lake Union to the industrial south end. Seattle's international business community also connects to the firm's four-decade foreign-inbound-investment practice, which helps families and companies from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore invest in U.S. businesses and real estate. For Seattle families, the firm's family law practice handles divorce with the same attorney from start to finish, and its personal injury attorneys take accident cases on contingency. The firm also counsels churches, synagogues, and ministries across the region.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to go downtown to work with Oseran Hahn on a Seattle matter?
No. Our office is in Bellevue, about fifteen to twenty minutes east via Interstate 90. We meet Seattle clients at their location, at our office, or by video, and we appear in the King County Courthouse downtown when a matter requires it.
Which court hears a Seattle commercial dispute?
King County Superior Court at the King County Courthouse, 516 Third Avenue in downtown Seattle. Seattle falls in the court's Seattle Case Assignment Area under local rule LCR 82, the same area that covers the Eastside.
Why hire a Bellevue firm instead of a downtown Seattle firm?
You get the same substantive business, real estate, and litigation work with a partner handling the file directly, at the cost structure of a boutique rather than a large downtown practice. For most Seattle matters the courthouse is the same one either firm would use.
What Seattle matters does the firm handle?
Business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and development, and commercial litigation, plus foreign inbound investment, estate planning, family law, personal injury, and church and nonprofit law.
When should you hire a real estate attorney in Seattle?
The best time is before you sign the letter of intent, because it locks in the price and structure the purchase agreement will follow. We also step in when a title commitment shows a problem, a tenant stops paying, or a permit stalls. On a 1031 exchange, bring us in before the sale closes, because the deadlines start that day.
What kind of lawyer does a Seattle startup or small business need?
A business and corporate attorney. Early on, that means forming the company, setting up the cap table and founder agreements, and papering the first hires and commercial contracts. When the company grows, many owners keep that same firm on as outside general counsel, on a monthly retainer, instead of hiring a lawyer in-house.
What does it cost to work with Oseran Hahn on a Seattle matter?
We quote at the first conversation, and that conversation costs nothing. When we understand the matter, we tell you how we would bill it before any work starts. Injury cases run on contingency, with no fee unless we recover. Ongoing business clients can keep us on a fixed monthly retainer.
Let's sit down and talk it through.
Wherever you are across the Puget Sound, the first conversation costs nothing. Tell us what you are dealing with.