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Phil McCune is a firm founder. His practice includes: commercial litigation; antitrust; intellectual property; contract and construction cases; environmental, toxic tort and business tort litigation; class action; and, land use counseling and litigation.
Experience: Phil has represented customers in all dispute resolution forums, from informal mediations, to lengthy trials, to arguments before federal appeals courts. Phil's experience in tort actions ranges from guiding individual lawsuits to defending class actions brought against large corporations.
Phil's commercial litigation work includes business disputes, antitrust disputes and construction disputes involving large, complex structures.
Phil litigates trade secret and patent disputes. His practice in this area focuses upon, but is not limited to, software and related technologies.
Phil also guides commercial development projects to fully permitted status.
Some cases for which Phil has been trial counsel have included:
The first successful private antitrust action brought against Microsoft, challenging Microsoft's anticompetitive practices in the PC operating system market.
A $19 million jury award for the inventors of the pointing and scrolling mouse, based upon the misappropriation of their technology.
Successful defense of claims brought against the owner of the world's largest radio telescope, seeking reimbursement of more than $60 million in cost overruns.
Dismissal of class action flight attendant claims for secondhand smoke exposure. Obtained the first published ruling in Washington holding that medical monitoring is not a cause of action under Washington law.
Successful permitting efforts and successful litigation defending those permits for a large, controversial landfill in Spokane, Washington.
Recovery of damages for several families with children abused by a day care provider at a prominent local school.
Education: Dartmouth College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1987), College Presidential Scholar; University of Michigan Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1991), Senior Editor, Journal of Law Reform, winner of the National Energy Law and Policy Institute's National Writing Competition, Dean's Public Service Commendation; Law Clerk for the Honorable John C. Coughenour, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Memberships: American, Washington State and Seattle-King County Bar Associations; recognized in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law; named a Washington lawyer "Rising Star" and "Super Lawyer" in the Washington Law & Politics magazine lawyers' polls; Board of Trustees: Seattle Repertory Theatre; Friends of Independent Schools and Better Education; American Friends of St. Michaels University School; past Trustee, Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted. | 