Attorneys

Song Mondress lawyers provide skills as a team to cover diverse multi-disciplinary issues affecting employee benefits. Changing laws and evolving benefit concepts present continuing challenges in plan management, but also offer opportunities through creative legal analysis and plan designs. Whatever issues arise, we likely have resolved similar situations and can pinpoint a resolution appropriate to the circumstances. In addition, since our lawyers all concentrate on employee benefits law, our clients do not pay for inefficient learning curves. The depth of our practice is reflected by the fact we are regularly retained by plans with existing legal counsel to serve as special counsel on particularly serious plan compliance issues.

     WILLIAM H. SONG

Hamilton College, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1974 Watson Fellowship, 1974-1975 University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1978 Read the Biography

     M. ELLEN MONDRESS

University of Washington, B.A., 1983 University of Puget Sound School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1986 Associate Editor, University of Puget Sound Law Review Judicial law clerk for Honorable Vernon R. Pearson, Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, 1986-1987 Read the Biography

     MICHAEL P. MONACO

Stanford University, B.A., 1989 University of California at Hastings College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1994 Associate Managing Editor, Hastings Law Journal Judicial Extern for Honorable Wayne Brazil, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Read the Biography

     GAVIN M. PARR

University of Puget Sound, B.A., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1997 University of Washington Law School, J.D., with high honors, Order of the Coif, 2000 Notes and Comments Editor, Washington Law Review Judicial law clerk for Honorable Gerry L. Alexander, Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, 2000-2001 Read the Biography

     JANIS T. HADLEY

Brown University, B.A.,cum laude 1968 University of Washington Law School, J.D., Order of the Coif, 1975 Read the Biography

     RHIANNON E. LOCKWOOD

Dartmouth College, B.A., cum laude, with Departmental High Honors, 2002 University of Washington Law School, J.D., 2006 Read the Biography

     DIANE L. CUSHING

University of Washington, B.A., 1989 Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College, J.D., 1992 University of Washington School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 2007 Associate Editor, Environmental Law Read the Biography