Erin Howshar

Erin Howshar's clients benefit from her unique ability to handle both transactional and litigation matters.

Ms. Howshar's transactional practice focuses on serving diverse businesses through formation, growth, operation, sale and winding up. She negotiates and drafts a broad range of business contracts, including asset purchase agreements, assignments, commercial licenses and management agreements. A large part of her transactional experience has been in the real estate area, where she has negotiated and prepared purchase and sale agreements, deeds, promissory notes, commercial leases, easements and construction contracts.

As a litigator, Ms. Howshar has counseled and represented clients ranging from racetracks and casinos to attorneys and real estate developers, in matters as diverse as contract disputes, employment-related issues and dissolution problems. Ms. Howshar has extensive trial experience, having conducted both jury and bench trials. She has successfully argued cases for both plaintiffs and defendants at both the trial and appellate court levels.

Ms. Howshar received her Juris Doctorate from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in 1998, where she received the Scholars in Law Award. During law school, she was a summer clerk for Lawrence O. Davis, Federal U.S. Magistrate Judge, Eighth Circuit.

After law school, Ms. Howshar opened a successful general civil practice in the State of Wyoming, where she also represented indigent criminal clients on a contract basis for the State of Wyoming Public Defender's office. She was President of the Platte County Bar Association, and the youngest attorney in the state of Wyoming.

Ms. Howshar moved to Seattle in 2000, and has focused her practice on real estate, business, employment, commercial law, class actions and professional malpractice defense. She has been selected as a "Rising Star" by Washington Law and Politics for the last three years. Ms. Howshar joined McNaul Ebel in 2007, where she continues to litigate as well as expand the scope of her business transactional practice.

Ms. Howshar is also highly involved in the community, judging mock trial competitions for middle school and high school students, and judging the University of Washington's Falknor Appellate Moot Court competition. She is on the Board of Directors for Waterfront Landings, and involved with fundraising efforts for several local charitable organizations. She is also a member of the King County and American Bar Associations.

In her spare time, Ms. Howshar enjoys travel, reading, wine, boating, snowshoeing and running.