Shannon E. Richards

Contact

Direct: 206-462-6747
Email: SER@pattersonbuchanan.com

Attorney

Admitted to practice in Washington

Ms. Richards' practice focuses on civil defense matters for both private and public entities.

Before joining Patterson Buchanan, Ms. Richards represented police and fire unions in contract negotiations, discipline procedures, and other litigation. She also practiced criminal defense as a public defender in Snohomish County for three years. She has argued dozens of appeals and has successfully litigated numerous jury trials in Washington state courts. During law school, Ms. Richards externed with the Montgomery County Public Defender's Office, the Department of the Interior's Office of Civil Rights, the Medical-Legal Community Partnership, and with the Honorable Judge Sierra Thomas Street in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

EDUCATION

• Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 2019
• Fordham University, Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, 2016

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Washington State Bar Association