Deborah Fleck Email & Phone Number

Hon. Deborah Fleck (Ret.) handled a wide range of complex civil cases during her 21 years on the bench, and is highly respected for her work ethic, fairness and intellect. She is also highly regarded among colleagues on the bench and in the bar for her hard work, tenacity and commitment to improving the justice system in Washington State. Her leadership on race and justice issues, adequate and stable funding for the trial courts, issues involving families and children including establishing mediation programs, and public education about access to the justice system are some of the highlights of her judicial career. Judge Fleck is well known as a mediator for her thorough preparation and for communicating her confidence in the parties' ability to reach resolution through hard work and creative problem-solving. She builds rapport with parties and their counsel, and is able to bring her judicial experience to bear in reaching reasonable and fair solutions for the parties in cases she mediates. She is recognized for her ability to identify risks and finesse through barriers to resolution, with counsel at times commenting that they had no expectation that a case would settle. She is known as an advocate for settlement, a mediator who doesn't give up until a case is resolved. During her judicial career, she served as Chief Judge of the Regional Justice Center and Chief Judge of the Unified Family Court which resulted in the implementation of Early Resolution Case Manager attorneys providing a Family Law Orientation to pro se parties, followed by on-site mediation for cases not settled prior to trial.Practice Areas: • Business/Commercial• Employment• Estate/Probate• Family Law• Insurance• Personal Injury/Tort • Real Property • Securities

Listed skills include Mediation, Arbitration, Family Law, and Civil Litigation.