Loren A. Cochran - Tacoma, WA

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Boston College Law School, Newton, Massachusetts, May, 2002
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 1993
    B.A., Bachelor of Arts
    Honors: cum laude
    Major: Broadcast Journalism & Political Science

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Representative Cases

• $60,000,000 wrongful death settlement with the State of Washington and timber company for deaths in the Oso landslide of 2014
• $7,500,000 consumer protection class action settlement for thousands of motor vehicle accident victims who suffered deceptive collection practices regarding their medical bills
• $3,100,000 Sexual Abuse Settlement against the State of Washington DSHS for a state-dependent child placed with a convicted child rapist
• Confidential class action settlement that included full reimbursement and additional payment for 169 clients whose Apple devices were made inoperable by Error 53 bug
• $1,250,000 class action settlement for employees of a drywall company who were not paid for rest or lunch breaks, and were not paid fully for overtime.
• $1,000,000 sex abuse settlement against a school district for failure to protect a special needs student from a child predator with a history of assaultive behavior.
• $1,000,000 settlement for the parents of a young drowning victim
• $750,000 sexual abuse settlement with the Olympia School District for a girl sexually abused by her bus driver, Gary Shafer
• $500,000 Settlement for a teenage girl who was called derogatory names at her place of work.
• $425,000 sexual abuse settlement against Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) for negligent supervision resulting in child sexual abuse

Published Works

Articles

• Changes in State Public Information Laws in the United States Since the War on Terrorism., Editor, State Open Government Law and Practice in a Post-9/11 World, Inc., Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, 2007
  

Bar Admissions

• Washington, 2002
• U.S. District Court Western District of Washington
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

Other Affiliations

• Washington State Association for Justice (EAGLE)
• American Bar Association
• Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association
• Washington State Bar Association
• King County Bar Association

Fraternities and Sororities

• Phi Beta Kappa