James K. Gazori

For the last 7 months James defended our 17 yr old son whom was facing VERY serious charges-allegations were made that our child threatened to shoot up a local H.S., & to kill a fellow student because he was gay as well as threats to this gay students family, Sheriffs pounding at our door at 2am to a...rrest our son on probable cause (i.e. someone said our son said this) & he was charged w/ THREE FELONIES, later they added a misdemeanor for when our son did scratch this student w/ a pencil after he kept taking pictures of our son and posting them on social media this student also at one point rubbed his buttocks on our sons genitals, long story short our son had enough and reacted. Our lives were turned upside down, our home was searched and we had to remove all of our firearms, our son was detained for 5 days in juvenile hall and bail was RAISED higher by the judge than what prosecution asked for (Too much media on school shootings and everything else out on TV today) Things were becoming OVER-DRAMATIZED but what do you expect when the words GUN-SHOOTING-SCHOOL-GAY are being used. THE REAL story--our son had been sexually harassed/assaulted by this other student whom fell in love with him, our son tried to make it stop on his own and instead of taking this issue to us or to the school he did make some verbal comments in which he regrets terribly. Our son was actually friends w/ this student for a period of time until this students platonic friendship became an obsession. James helped us get a SAPO order a Sexual Assault Protection Order against this student for WHAT HE DID DO to our son. I still get emotional thinking about how my child was a victim first, Unfortunately the SAPO did not erase the comments our son made. James stayed the course through all the drama and uncomfortable subject matter (there WAS LOTS of graphic pictures, social media, texts you name it) James did not waiver. He was kind & took the time to explain to our son in great detail the law and how it works, he treated our teenager like an adult & we appreciated that. During the SAPO hearing & cross examination James treated the other student with the utmost respect HOWEVER did not let him off the hook regardless of how uncomfortable the subject matter was, James held the other student accountable for the things this student did say and do to our son. James painted the CORRECT picture to the judge whom reiterated this student did under the RCW/law sexually assault/harass our son. Our son had NEVER been in trouble before, great grades and gentle in nature and now he was expelled from school for an entire year and was looking at having multiple felonies all because he didn't know how to handle same-sex sexual harassment. We opted to put our son into counseling and paid a pretty penny for a psychological evaluation and risk assessment to satisfy all involved. James THANK GOD worked with us on a rate for his services, in our situation this case was not inexpensive, but James cost was the most affordable. I would gladly pay this again for the outcome we received. 4 gross misdemeanors, 12 months probation, 24 hours community service, No contact with the specific HS. Thank you James for everything you did for us, for being kind & understanding regardless of the subject matter, for listening to me over & over repeat the same things, James handled me a mom that was emotionally distressed & at times at wits end! Our case was unbelievably embarrassing/emotionally charged & James kept calm, light hearted & used humor which helped immensely. I highly recommend James especially if your case has anything to do with things that are uncomfortable to discuss or that would be media worthy. There was a point we were concerned that our case may have received media attention but we were able to keep things quiet & James kept our case confidential & respected our privacy. We would not have the outcome we have if it weren't for James knowledge/expertise of the law.

I first time I was represented by James Gazori was over 20 years ago when he pursuaded the court to dismiss misdemeanor charges against me. A few years later, he got another misdemeanor case dismissed. And a few years ago he got felony charges against me dismissed with prejudice. His outstanding rep...resentation has saved my job, my reputation, and my good standing in the community on three different occasions. He's unlike many defense attorneys because he doesn't let the prosecutor run the whole show and I've even seen him stand toe to toe with the jude - and win. I've recommended him to many friends and relatives over the years and he's consistently delivered positive results. And I strongly recommend him now.

James Gazori is one of those lawyers' you hear the horror stories about. He hides behind messaging services, computers and phones. He will not acknowledge your responses, calls and queries. He emphatically denies ever receiving emails/texts you sent, even when you show him the message that has a date.../time stamp on it, then he has the audacity to try to blame his failures on his client. The one thing James is very successful at in the courtroom is frustrating the judge to the point the judge makes rash and quick decisions to, in my opinion, rid the courtroom of James' bumbling incompetence. And believe me, that decision will not be favorable to you, the client. Decisions not based on facts that James should have but fails to present to the court. Rather decisions based on assumptions the judge has to make for himself. Due greatly to Mr. Gazori's extremely weak pre-trial preparation coupled with his even worse performance in presenting the case to the court. (I've reviewed the Court Recorders recordings of the hearing many times, believe me when I say "poor performance in the court room".) James is an extremely poor litigator. His strategy is to agree as much as possibly with the opposing counsel to make his job as easy on himself as possibly regardless of the outcome it has on his client. Rather than sitting down and formulating and expressing exactly what he wanted for me, his client, he simply copied and pasted the opposing counsel's declaration to the court on his own declaration header leaving in the opposing counsel's spelling, grammatical, and figure errors for the courts to decipher on their own. That did not go well for me either. He will spend a great deal of his time explaining to his clients how the opposing counsel has convinced him that he will lose the case rather than spending the time developing a winning strategy of his own that will benefit his client. He did not even show up in the courtroom the day of my final hearing after he had me, in blind trust, sign the court documents thinking he had my best interest in mind. He then charged me for the time he spent telling me excuse after lame excuse and he has a lot of them, why he didn't bother showing up. It did not turn out well for me and to this day I am still feeling the repercussions from his haphazard, lackadaisical, incompetent approach to his duties and responsibilities representing his clients in the courtroom. Don't make the same mistake I made, continue your search for someone that will competently represent your best interest in the courtroom. James Gazori is NOT that lawyer