WAMS Mediator Certification: 2006

• Serious Injury & Wrongful Death
• Insurance Contract Disputes & Subrogation
• Auto Accidents
• UM/UIM/MAR Arbitration
• Medical Negligence
• Wrongful Termination

Accomplishments:

Cynthia Morgan has spent her career practicing law in Washington State. She was selected as a Rising Star and Local Super Lawyer by Washington Law & Politics Magazine in 2002 and 2004. From 1996 until 2003, she practiced with the Messina Bulzomi firm in Tacoma. Her emphasis was on complex personal injury and wrongful death claims. Specific types of cases she has handled include auto collisions, medical malpractice, worksite injury, product liability, and employment issues.

From 2003 until 2009, Cynthia was in private practice in Seattle and Issaquah and focused on mediation, arbitration, insurance subrogation and personal injury litigation. She briefly practiced insurance defense with Scheer & Zehnder in Seattle in 2009. She has been certified as a Rule 39.1 mediator in U.S. Federal District Court and has been appointed to the WSBA Mediation Panel, and is on the MAR Panel in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties. She currently works as an Administrative Law Judge for the Seattle Office of Administrative Hearings and as an Exparte Commissioner Pro Tem for the King County Superior Court.

Cynthia has authored numerous publications and spoken at CLE seminars in the areas of automobile accident litigation and insurance, medical malpractice issues, mediation and settlement strategies, including Chapter 9: Evaluation and Settlement of the Washington Motor Vehicle Accident Litigation Deskbook.

Education:

• B.A. Political Science, University of Washington, 1992
• J.D., Seattle University, 1996

Affiliations:

• Member, Washington State Bar Association, Mediation Panel, Adjunct Investigative Panel Legislative Committee
• Lobbyist, Washington D.C. and Olympia
• Inactive Member, Oregon State Bar Association
• Eastside King County Bar Association
• Washington Mediation Association