Mike Maxwell has delivered justice to his clients for nearly adecade and a half, having taken more than one hundred cases to at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, he completedan internship for the Federal Defender in Alaska where he defendedindividuals accused of crime at trial. He assisted in a prisoners'federal class action litigation in Raleigh, North Carolina that forcedthe State of North Carolina to improve prison conditions. He alsoassisted with death penalty defense and investigation in Atlanta,Georgia.

Following law school, Mr. Maxwellattended the Georgetown University School of Law, where he was awardedan academic fellowship to complete a rare masters degree in law in thearea of trial advocacy. While at Georgetown, he supervised third yearlaw students as they defended the criminally accused at trial.

Mr.Maxwell worked as a criminal defense attorney for seven years in KingCounty. There, he defended over a hundred criminal defendants at trialon charges ranging from DUI to murder in the first degree. One of hismost notable wins was State v. Vigil, where his clientwas charged with two counts of assault in the first degree for shootingtwo unarmed people at close range. Mr. Maxwell's client was acquittedby invoking the defense of self defense and the jury awarded allattorney fees and costs to Mr. Maxwell.

Beforejoining the Bernard Law Group, Mr. Maxwell worked as a civil plaintiffand defense attorney at several offices, including Rohan Goldfarb Rafeland Shapiro in Seattle, Lucas & Lucas, PS in Bellevue, and the lawoffice of Kenneth R.Scearce in Seattle, bringing several matters totrial. His appellate experience includes Thompson v. E. Pacific Enterprises, a product liability case where the plaintiff's allergies caused her to enter into anaphylactic shock and a coma and suffered subsequent brain damage. 115 Wn.App. 1042 (2003). He also argued Sjoegren v. Pacific Northwest Properties, a premises liability case. 118 Wn.App. 144 (2003).