Business Litigation Attorney in Washington

Small businesses and small business owners run into the same disputes as large ones: partnership agreements a partner stops honoring, contract interpretation and enforcement, ownership and control fights, and co-owners who breach their fiduciary duties. Rivercrest Law represents small business owners individually and on behalf of the business itself.

The firm's small business litigation practice covers breach of fiduciary duty claims, enforcement of partnership and operating agreements, ownership and control disputes, and guidance on regulatory compliance. The firm currently represents small business owners in active Superior Court litigation enforcing exactly these kinds of rights.

Washington's Consumer Protection Act prohibits unfair and deceptive business practices, and it lets private plaintiffs, not just the Attorney General, enforce it.

Sebastian Miller learned this law from the enforcement side. As an Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division, he was on the team that filed lawsuits against two companies for deceiving small business owners: more than 230,000 deceptive, government-lookalike notices mailed to Washington small businesses. The litigation ended with a court ordering the companies to pay $24.8 million, including restitution paid back to the thousands of small business owners who had been deceived into paying. That result was achieved in service with the Washington Attorney General's Office and is the State's, not Rivercrest Law's.

Rivercrest Law represents individuals and businesses who have been subject to consumer protection violations: bad faith business practices, deceptive business practices, false advertising, misrepresentation, and breach of contract. Many of these cases pair traditional contract claims with the Consumer Protection Act, which can provide enhanced remedies when the conduct is unfair or deceptive.

Because the firm litigates both for businesses and against businesses that break the rules, clients get an attorney who knows both sides of the commercial fairness equation: how businesses get held accountable, and how they protect themselves.