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ANNE MELANI BREMNER
Attorney and Legal Analyst
Anne Bremner’s 26 year career has established her as an exceptionally accomplished trial lawyer. She maintains an active law practice as a Litigation Shareholder at the Seattle law firm
Stafford Frey Cooper. She is a former Judicial Law Clerk who spent five years earning a reputation as a highly successful, tough, and focused King County Prosecutor. Her private practice has an emphasis on high-profile
trial work. She represents the Seattle Police and other Washington State police departments and officers as well as Judges and
public officials in civil and criminal trials. She has represented Washington State Attorney General (now Governor) Chris Gregoire and the Attorney General's office
in a highly publicized civil action. Ms. Bremner was defense counsel and obtained defense verdicts in Vili Fualaau v. Highline School District and the Des Moines Police Department (the "Mary Kay Letourneau case"). She has successfully defended class actions in WTO based litigation and for the
SPD Police Dogs
(the K-9 Unit) in a national test case brought by the ACLU. Anne Bremner's career is marked by the distinction of being included in the top 1% of Trial Lawyers in the United States and Canada who meet the rigid requirements for Fellowship in the prestigious
American College of Trial Lawyers, for which she was selected as the National Representative for all of the
Fellows to give their formal presentation at her class' Induction in March, 2003.
Ms. Bremner is a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy
and has been a frequent lecturer for seminars throughout the United States, St.
Kitts and in Costa Rica. She is a member of the American Board of Trial
Advocates. She is "AV" rated ("preeminent"). She was a semifinalist to be the
U.S. Attorney in Washington. Ms. Bremner has been named a "Superlawyer"
(top 5% of lawyers in Washington State) by her peers in 1999 through 2009
and also one of Washington's top 50 female lawyers in 2009. She was voted by her peers as one of Seattle's 92 best attorneys in 2001
and one of Seattle's top 115 attorneys in 2003 in Seattle Magazine. She was named (again by her peers) as one of the
"Top Ten Women Lawyers" in Washington State and one of the "25 Smartest People"
in Washington State in Law & Politics Magazine. In March, 2008 Anne Bremner
was inducted as a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an honor
extended to only an elite group of trial lawyers when “both their peers and the
judiciary believe the candidate possesses, in an exceptional degree, the
following qualifications: superior skill and recognized ability in trial and
appellate practice, services rendered in promoting the best interests of the
legal profession and the highest standards and techniques of advocacy and
excellent character and absolute integrity."
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Media Appearances...
Anne Bremner appears regularly as a legal analyst for the
following networks:
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