Jerry H. Stein, a Washington licensed lawyer, is an Order of the Coif honoree from the UCLA School of Law and has more than 30 years of experience in litigating and resolving construction and other real estate related disputes.

Jerry has tried more than 30 cases and is one of the few condominium defect attorneys in the Seattle area to have actually tried construction defect cases on behalf of condominium associations. With Jerry Stein as lead trial counsel, the jury awarded the Lake Meridian Association approximately $3 million dollars in damages against the developer. The $3 million dollar verdict represented a recovery of 100% of the damages sought by the Association. In another case that Jerry tried to a jury in the King County Superior Court, the developers and their insurance carriers settled the case favorably to the Association shortly after the case was submitted to the jury for decision.

Jerry Stein was one of the first attorneys to obtain a pre-trial writ of attachment on behalf of a condominium association that enabled a court to obtain jurisdiction over a developer’ss assets while suit was pending. This prevented the developer from disposing of those assets while the association’s claims were still in the dispute resolution process.

In addition to his work as trial counsel, Jerry also has extensive appellate experience. In a precedent setting published opinion involving the Marina Cove Condominium Association, Jerry was able to convince the appellate court that an association’s right to a jury trial on its damage claims prevailed over the standard provisions in a developer’s sales agreement purporting to compel the association to arbitrate any claims that it might have against the developer.