Kristine (Tini) Grelish
Associate at Gordon ¨ Edmunds ¨ Elder PLLC
E-mail: kgrelish@gee-law.com Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Personal Injury Law; Products Liability; Commercial Litigation; Contracts; Employment Discrimination; Professional Malpractice; Medical Malpractice; Appellate Litigation.
Admitted: 2005, Washington State.
Law School: Seattle University, J.D., 2005, summa cum laude,
Dean's List 2003-2005
CALI Award Recipient: Family Law; Administrative Law; Trusts and Estates; Remedies
Academic Scholarship recipient 2004-2005.
Undergraduate: Tini attended the prominent University of British Columbia in Vancouver B.C. Canada. There Tini undertook a dual major honors program in Religion and Literature and Philosophy where she earned her B.A. in 2000, receiving first class status.
Clinical Experience during Law School: Summer internship at Unemployment Law Project, Seattle, WA (May – August 2004):
involving litigation of twenty-three (23) unemployment appeal claims before the office of administrative hearings. Summer Internship at Province of British Columbia Crown Counsel (prosecutor's office), Surrey, B.C. (May – July 2003): involving interviewing and preparation of State witnesses, charge approvals, and assistance of the State during trials.
Post- Law School Judicial Clerkship: Washington State Court of Appeals, Div. II, Tacoma, Washington. Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Christine Quinn-Brintnall, (2005-2006) involving extensive research and writing on substantive legal issues in all areas of criminal and civil law. Community and Professional Involvement: King County Superior Court Juvenile Courthouse, Seattle, WA
Court Accountability Board Member (CAB). August 2003 –January 2004
Conducted interviews with juvenile offenders and their family to determine the offenders' eligibility for diversion and set the requirements to be met to satisfy the diversion agreement. Access to Justice Institute, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA
Community Justice Project Volunteer, October 2003 –May 2005
Performed client intakes and initial interviews at the International and Community District Centers.
Immigration Court Project Researcher November – January 2004
Attended client interviews and researched country conditions in order to help the client substantiate a claim for political and social group based asylum. Real Change, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA
Editor, August 2004-May 2005
Assisted in editing the student legal column of the real change newspaper Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, Seattle, WA
Intern, January 2005-May 2005
Assisted staff attorneys in NWIRP's disability citizenship unit with client citizenship applications.
Professional Memberships: King County Bar Association; Washington State Bar Association; Washington State Trial Lawyers Association; WSTLA Eagle.
Biography: Tini Grelish is an associate in the Bellevue law firm of Gordon Edmunds Elder PLLC. Before joining Gordon Edmunds Elder PLLC, Tini served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Chief Judge Christine Quinn-Brintnall, Division II Washington State Court of Appeals. Tini has also worked at the Unemployment Law Project in Seattle where she litigated unemployment appeal claims before the office of administrative hearings.
Tini is committed to seeking justice both through the firm and by way of community involvement. In the past she has served as a student editor for the Real Change newspaper's legal column, Court Accountability Board Member for the King County Juvenile Court, volunteered her time at Seattle University's Access to Justice Institute, as well as the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project. Tini is an avid traveler, including living and teaching English in Taiwan for a year, and journeys to Morocco, Thailand, Cambodia, Cuba and China. From September 26 to October 5, Tini was part of a team of international election monitors who observed the Parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Tini was stationed in Lugansk, an industrial part of Ukraine and charged with the duty of observing and reporting on the fairness of the electoral process. She met with numerous politicians and voters as well as legal counsel to gain a better understanding of Ukrainian electoral process and the positive and negative aspects of open elections in Ukraine. During her work there, Tini spoke at national and international press conferences, giving interviews to both newspaper journalists and television correspondents.
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