Leemon and Royer honored for legal work

Mark Leemon, an attorney with Leemon & Royer PLLC in Seattle, was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Washington State Association for Justice on Aug. 1. The Trial Lawyer of the Year award is given annually by WSAJ to an attorney who advances the art and skill of advocacy, either in trial or by training others.

Leemon’s legal career started with an extensive 10-year criminal defense practice as a staff attorney and supervisor at the Seattle-King County Defender Association. Leemon has since had a widely varied personal injury practice with a special focus on representing the victims of violent crimes, abuse and neglect. Leemon graduated from Harvard Law School.

Sidney S. Royer, an attorney with Leemon & Royer PLLC, has been elected to the Washington State Association for Justice’s (WSAJ) Board of Governors, representing the 8th Congressional District. She received her law degree from the Seattle University School of Law in 1983.

Gingrich taps Islander

Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, announced the appointment of Islander businessman and former King County Assessor, Harley Hoppe, to the Advisory Board of his Jobs and Prosperity Task Force of the new initiative “American Solutions for Winning the Future.”

The task force is comprised of the most successful and accomplished business leaders and entrepreneurs in America. The task force will focus on job creation.

As an advisory board member, Hoppe will be invited to Washington, D.C., for strategy sessions and to discuss ways of turning American economic problems around. American Solutions of Winning the Future, founded by Gingrich, is to provide nonpartisan significant solutions to important issues facing the United States.