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Mark Randall Arend
Partner at McKinley Irvin
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Biography
Over the course of his career, Mark Arend has filled the shoes of a businessman, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, and an attorney. Using his diverse vocational background, he helps clients facing high-tension, complex, and adversarial family law matters. Some of his practice areas include child custody, domestic violence, child support, relocation, high net worth divorce, and military family law.
Mark’s approach to family law is based on common sense, strong ethical standards, and the highest level of professionalism. His goal is simple: to “do better” for his clients than any other legal representative would do. Mark is a high skilled and experienced lawyer, with a strong background in difficult matrimonial law cases.
Education
- National Institute of Trial Advocacy
- Graduate (2009) | Trial Advocacy
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- Seattle University School of Law
- J.D. | Law
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- Honors: The Order of Barristers - for excellence in trial advocacy.
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- Leadership Institute
- Graduate | Leadership and Sustainable Communities
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- United States Air Force
- Combat Pilot | Fighter Aircraft Operations
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- Honors: Graduate: Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training
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- University of Washington School of Law
- B.A. | Psychology
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- Honors: Francis "Doc" Powers Scholarship AFROTC Distinguished Graduate Selected for Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training
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Professional Experience
- Partner
- McKinley Irvin
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- Commissioner Pro Tempore
- Pierce County Superior Court
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- Senior Attorney
- McKinley Irvin
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- Attorney at Law
- McKinley Irvin, PLLC
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- Attorney at Law
- Nelson & Carver, P.S.
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- Client-centered, professional, highly-effective representation. Counselling, negotiations, litigations, trials, appeals.
- Law Clerk
- Van Siclen, Stocks & Firkins
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- Civil litigation.
- Law Clerk
- Smith Alling Lane
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- Civil litigation.
- President
- The Arend Group
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- National consultants in sales, sales operations, sales training, sales start-up, marketing, communications technologies, speech recognition technologies, call center technologies - serving customers of all sizes, including the Fortune 100.
- Director - Enterprise Sales
- Onvia
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- Recruited and managed a new sales team selling online business intelligence about potential government contract spending to Fortune 1000 businesses.
- Corporate Sales Manager
- Verizon Call Center Services
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- Global provider of communications solutions and system integration for Enterprise-Level Call Centers.
- Regional Sales Manager
- STAPLES Communications
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- National provider of voice, data, and video communications solutions for customers of all sizes.
- General Manager - Northwest
- Convergent Communications
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- National provider of voice, video, and data communications solutions for customers of all sizes.
- Sales Manager
- Terra Communications
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- Regional provider of voice communications solutions.
- Sales Executive
- McCaw Cellular Communications
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- National wireless communications provider.
- Manager
- StairMaster
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- Worldwide provider of exercise equipment.
- Fighter Pilot and Officer
- United States Air Force
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- Combat operations of fighter aircraft.
Speaking Engagements
- The Economics of Business Disputes, Pierce County Network Meeting
- Estate Planning Essentials, Edward Jones - Puyallup: Client Roundtable
- Estate Planning Basics, South Hill Professionals
- Estate Planning Essentials and Recent Changes in the Law, Business Luncheon
Certifications
- Mediator
- King County Dispute Resolution Center
Awards
- Avvo.com 10.0 “Superb” rating
- Avvo.com
- Washington Super Lawyer
- Super Lawyers
- Peer Review Rated AV Preeminent
- martindale hubbell
Professional Associations
- Tacoma-Pierce County Superior Court
- Commissioner Pro Tempore
- Current
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- American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML)
- Fellow
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- Washington State Bar Association
- Member
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- Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association
- Member
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- The Honorable Robert J. Bryan American Inn of Court, Chapter XXV
- Member, Executive Board Member
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Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- Washington
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- Federal Circuit
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Practice Areas
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Estate Planning
- Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Family Law
- Child Custody, Child Support, Father's Rights, Same Sex Family Law
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