The most effective advocates for the rights of the wrongfully injured are often attorneys who have sat on the other side of the aisle at some point during their careers. Attorney Derek Moore is one such professional. His distinguished career included an eight-year stint as an adjuster at several big-name insurers, including State Farm and Safeco.
Derek’s insurance industry experience exposed him to the inner workings of a business that, while essential to society’s smooth functioning, often places profit above people and harms many honest folks in the process.
Derek Moore graduated from the University of Florida in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a minor in Business Administration. He was attracted to the world of finance early and subsequently enrolled in the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL.
Ready to make a name for himself in the workforce after a distinguished academic career, Derek left Crummer in 1998 with an MBA. For several years after he had graduated, Derek was a force to be reckoned with in the insurance industry. As an insurance claims adjuster, he worked on cases involving product and premises liability, wrongful injury and death, and serious automobile accidents. This work sparked what would become a career-making interest in tort law.
As a student at Seattle University School of Law, Derek Moore worked as an intern for the Seattle City Attorney’s torts office and gained a reputation as someone with a deep understanding of tort law. In fact, he earned a very rare A+ in his tort law course on the way to graduating magna cum laude in 2006. His outstanding academic career allowed him to hit the ground running at Bishop Legal and quickly become an integral part of the firm’s legal team. Derek is a hard-working, zealous advocate for his seriously injured clients.
Derek utilizes his tremendous breadth of knowledge in four primary areas of practice: construction site injuries, automobile accidents, and product and premises liability matters. His MBA and professional background in finance make him an expert at totaling damages in complex cases, especially when the claimant is a small business owner with assets that are difficult to appraise. Derek has worked on a wide range of cases included catastrophic injuries caused at railroad crossings.
Unlike many personal injury lawyers, Derek is just as comfortable dealing with self-insured corporations and government bodies as he is with general retail insurers.
Derek is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and may litigate before the Western Washington District of the U.S. District Court of Appeals, a privilege that enables him to handle federal-level tort cases.
Derek’s also a member of the Washington State Association for Justice and is an active participant in the WSAJ’s Speaker’s Bureau, holding forth on the merits of the Insurance Fair Conduct Act at conventions statewide. Super Lawyers Magazine also named Derek a 2012 “Rising Star”.
If you are a seriously injured accident victim in Washington State who wants a dedicated, experienced, personal injury lawyer on your side, call Derek.
Attorney Derek Moore
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Firm Verdicts
& Settlements
$40,000,000
Jury Verdict against
the Port of Seattle
$25,000,000
Record Settlement on behalf of a Latino Immigrant Concrete Worker
$7,000,000
Catastrophic Trucking Collision
Awards & Recognitions
Communities We Serve
Located in Normandy Park, between Seattle and Tacoma, the personal injury lawyers at Bishop Law Offices represent clients throughout Washington, the Puget Sound, and Vashon Island, including the cities of Burien, Seattle, Redmond, Kirkland, Bellevue, Tacoma, Federal Way, Auburn, Kent, Everett, SeaTac, Normandy Park, Des Moines, Renton, Tukwila, Newcastle, Covington, Puyallup, Lakewood, and Gig Harbor, as well as the communities in and around King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties.
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