“The first time I gathered my courage to ask him a question, he looked at me and said, ‘You learn by doing,’ and then he walked away from me,” she said, as the crowd laughed.Įmrich said she reached out to Anderson’s friends and colleagues when preparing her remarks and asked what they would say about him. She was a Rule 9 intern and got dropped off at a courtroom by another attorney who told her, “If you have a question, Neil Anderson will know it.” She recalled when she first met Anderson. “We have Westlaw, of course, but why would I use it when I have Neil? You can ask him a question, and while Westlaw can give you the cite, Neil can give you the cite and then he’ll rummage around the paper on his desk and hand you the brief.” “He’s a dedicated attorney, and he’s one of the smartest people I know,” she said. Only once was his client found guilty as charged.Įmrich acknowledged the months - sometimes years - of preparation that go into a felony trial. One trial ended in a hung jury, and in another his client was acquitted of a high-level felony but found guilty of a misdemeanor. Neil had those six trials and he had five wins, essentially.” At three trials, juries found Anderson’s clients not guilty. “For those who don’t practice in criminal law, that’s a lot.

“Last year, he had six felony jury trials,” said Christie Emrich, owner of Vancouver Defenders, who introduced Anderson at the Barrister’s Ball. He was hired by Jeff Barrar, founder of Vancouver Defenders, in 2006. Kauffman was given the Rising Star award at Lewis & Clark Law School’s Distinguished Honors Dinner at the Waverley Country Club in Portland.īoth Kauffman and Anderson have felony caseloads of court-appointed cases at Vancouver Defenders and represent retained clients as well.Īnderson, a 1996 graduate of Seattle University School of Law, has been practicing in Clark County since 1999. Attorneys Neil Anderson and Katie Kauffman were each honored March 11 for their excellence in the courtroom.Īnderson was awarded Trial Attorney of the Year by the Clark County Bar Association at its annual Barrister’s Ball at the AC Marriott Vancouver Waterfront.

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