Scott Michael Missall

            SCOTT M. MISSALL is a partner at Short Cressman & Burgess PLLC in Seattle, Washington.  Mr. Missall chairs the firm's Land Use Practice Group and Local Government Practice Group.  He has focused his practice on land use, administrative, environmental and municipal law since 1984.  He handles counseling, transactional and litigation related to land use and development, environmentally sensitive areas, residential and commercial development, government permitting and enforcement actions, environmental compliance and hazardous waste cleanups, and public law procedural issues.  Mr. Missall regularly represents clients in the private sector.  In the public sector, he served as the city attorney for the City of Mill Creek for 23 years, served as special land use counsel to the Town of Woodway for 6 years, served as special conflict counsel to the King County Ombudsman for 8 years, and served as the Acting City Attorney for City of Bothell in 2008 and as outside litigation counsel thereafter..

            Mr. Missall received a dual B.A. from Western Washington University in 1974 (Philosophy and Political Science) and his J.D. from the Northwest School of Law of Lewis and Clark College in 1984.  He is the author of Overview of Local Administrative Law in the Wash. Admin. Law Prac. Manual (current ed.) and CR 24 – Intervention in the Wash. Civil Proc. Deskbook (current ed.).  He is a frequent speaker at professional seminars and universities.  Mr. Missall is a member of the American, Washington State, King County, and Kitsap County Bar Associations.  He is active in the Washington State Association of Municipal Attorneys and in WSBA Section matters, serving as a Chair of the Administrative Law Section in 1994-95.  He has been on the Board of Directors for Seattle Goodwill Industries since 1997, serving as Secretary (2002-04), Vice-Chair (2004) and Board Chair (2005).