Prior to opening The Filutowski Law Firm, PLLC, Ms. Filutowski worked for prominent Seattle litigation firms, representing seriously injured individuals against insurance companies. She has brought justice to her clients through hundreds of negotiations, arbitrations, mediations and trial.
A Seattle area native, Ms. Filutowski lectures on law at her alma mater, the University of Washington, and is an active member of the Puget Sound community. Ms. Filutowski volunteers with the King County Bar Association Bilingual Spanish Legal Clinic, helping Spanish speakers access legal aid. Ms. Filutowski is an active board member of the Washington State Association for Justice, King County Washington Women Lawyers Board and American Bar Association Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.
Following the 2002 Enron scandal, Ms. Filutowski helped pioneer the nation’s leading academic center on business ethics and corporate governance as a Founding Fellow of The Center on Corporations, Law & Society at Seattle University School of Law. She has worked on some of the more prominent cases in the field including the Corrie v. Caterpillar case that alleged the aiding and abetting of human rights violations under the Alien Tort Claims Act.
In 2005, Ms. Filutowski studied alternative dispute resolution among Harvard Business School faculty and European lawyers at the University of Rome in Rome, Italy, and assisted in the negotiation of international sales contracts at General Electric Oil & Gas in Florence, Italy.
For several years Ms. Filutowski volunteered with the YMCA of Greater Seattle, she also served on the World Affairs Council, Young Professionals International Network Board and was a Founding Member of the Washington Lawyers for Sustainability. Ms. Filutowski now consults, on a project-basis, for Maurgood, a sustainability consulting firm with offices in Denver and Atlanta.
Ms. Filutowski is an honor (Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa) graduate from University of Washington, Seattle – Business School (B.A., Business Administration), and holds a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law (where she excelled in Moot Court and was inducted into the National Order of the Barristers). She is admitted to practice in Washington State.
