GTH is pleased to welcome a new partner, Joanne Thomas Blackburn, and her exceptional legal team to its Seattle office. Blackburn, attorney Jennifer Loynd, paralegal Christopher Borgman and secretary Carol Kinnaird left the law firm of Jackson & Wallace earlier this month where Blackburn was a Senior Partner managing their Seattle and Portland offices. Blackburn is a former President of the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers Association, a Regional Board Member for the Northwest Region of the Defense Law Institute, and was voted a Super Lawyer by Washington Law and Politics  from 2004-2008.  Her team's practice is focused in Civil Litigation, Insurance, Products Liability, and Construction Law.  GTH has not offered a full partner level position to a newly hired attorney since 1996, demonstrating how excited they are to have Blackburn’s group join the firm.