Holly D. Brauchli

Practice Experience

Holly Brauchli is a civil litigator who defends clients in products liability, medical device, malpractice, and general liability cases. She is comfortable litigating in a variety of jurisdictional and procedural contexts including but not limited to civil and criminal arenas; federal, state, and tribal courts; and arbitration, trial, and class action forums. She is licensed and has practical experience in California, Washington, and Oregon.

After law school, Holly gained valuable first chair trial experience as a District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco. Since successfully trying cases there, she has continued to advocate for her clients and gain their trust as a civil litigator. She enjoys learning about the case from the vantage of her clients and, through that process, developing creative solutions to cases. Some of her recent achievements include:

• Successful briefing achieving partial summary judgment relating to the duty to indemnify and defend third party pollution claims in Dolsen Companies v. Bedivere Ins. Co., 264 F. Supp. 3d 1083 (E.D. Wash. 2017);
• Pro Bono Amicus briefing which became central to the Washington Supreme Court's ruling in Rodriguez v. Zavala, 188 Wn.2d 586 (2017);
• Successful briefing achieving denial of class certification in an internet privacy case with exposure of $92 million;
• Second-chaired trial involving allegations of medical negligence which resulted in directed verdict for the defense;
• Second-chaired stipulated liability trial with exposure of $5 million and obtained a verdict of less than $90,000;
• Successful summary judgment briefing securing a dismissal due to a lack of proximate causation in a case involving alleged design defects of a pallet truck, (Beard v. Mighty Lift, Inc., 224 F. Supp. 3d 1131, 1132 (W.D. Wash. 2016));
• Successful licensure defense of a veterinary clinic who faced serious accusations launched by a disgruntled former practitioner; and
• Successful summary judgment briefing which secured the dismissal of several constitutional claims asserted against a municipality for damages relating to a wildfire.