Lynne C. Wilson

Lynne Wilson is a civil litigator who has practiced in Seattle for more than thirty years.  She focuses on civil rights, personal injury and appellate law in state and federal courts. She also performs litigation services for solo practitioners and law firms in a wide variety of other practice areas such as family, criminal, real estate, commercial, workers compensation, unlawful detainer, and employment.  She graduated cum laude from Seattle University Law School after previously working as a journalist for The Seattle Weekly. 

Lynne has published numerous articles about police accountability and misconduct litigation in the Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report, a bi-monthly Thomson Reuters publication.  Some of these are available below and illuminate the legal aspects of policing issues such as body cameras, collective bargaining, de-escalation policies, disciplinary records and less-lethal weapons.

Long involved in community affairs, Ms. Wilson served on the ACLU-WA Legal Committee for ten years and has served on the board of Mothers for Police Accountability (a grassroots organization advocating for police reform in the Puget Sound region) for many years.  In 1999, she was a founding member of the National Lawyers Guild's Police Accountability Project.  In 2013, she helped launch the Northwest Police Misconduct Attorneys group and currently serves as its Co-Chair.  Since 2004, she has served as a neutral arbitrator for King County and Snohomish County Superior Courts.