YAKIMA, WA, May 04, 2023 — Ryan D. Griffee has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Mr. Griffee is a prominent attorney and managing partner at Larson, Griffee & Pickett PLLC, whose practice focuses on business, real estate, estate planning, agriculture, and transactional law. Having initially joined the Yakima, Washington-based firm in 2015 as an associate attorney, he was promoted to partner in 2018 and managing partner in 2022. Mr. Griffee’s success has garnered him a reputation for providing exceptional legal representation and building longstanding relationships with clients across a multitude of industries.
A full-service law firm, Larson, Griffee & Pickett PLLC specializes in personal injury, estate planning and probate, agricultural law, real estate law, business law, and lawsuits and litigation. Looking toward future goals, Mr. Griffee envisions expanding his firm’s clientele and assisting his newly hired associates as they develop their skills and expertise in the field.
Mr. Griffee interned as a summer associate at Diamond McCarthy LLP, a national trial and dispute resolution law firm in New York City, and completed a legal externship at New Regency Productions Inc. in Los Angeles.
Mr. Griffee’s professional publications have been included in the Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law as well as continuing legal education materials. He also presented one of his papers before an annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association in Princeton, New Jersey, on of the application of game theory to adversarial boilerplate language in contracts.
Giving back to his local community, Mr. Griffee has served as a board member for the Yakima County Volunteer Attorney Services. He is also a former president of the Yakima Estate Planning Council and a former committee chairperson for the Fresh Hop Ale Festival, Fresh Hop Group, in Yakima. Among other roles, Mr. Griffee has volunteered with the United Way of Central Washington and the Washington State Bar Association.
To prepare for his career in law, Mr. Griffee obtained a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Washington in 2007 where he was selected as an Agnes C. Nelson Scholar and became a member of the International Economics Honor Society and Omicron Delta Epsilon. His undergraduate training was followed by a Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Pepperdine University in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Mr. Griffee has been admitted to practice by the Washington and Oregon Bar Associations and before the U.S. Eastern and Western Districts of Washington.
Mr. Griffee remains abreast in his field as a member of several prominent professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, Oregon State Bar, and the Washington State Bar Association. He is also the president of the Yakima County Bar Association for the 2022-2023 term.
Mr. Griffee has been selected to the 2021, 2022, and 2023 Washington Rising Stars list. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. He was also recognized as a Platinum Client Champion by Martindale-Hubbell in 2023. Mr. Griffee attributes his success to his tenacity as someone who will never shy away from a challenge.
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