What We Do

We represent employees, consumers, and business owners in a variety of legal matters.

• We offer employees high-quality, aggressive pursuit of justice in cases of wrongful termination, unpaid wages, discrimination, harassment, and disability rights.
• We represent consumers in class action lawsuits to remedy and deter dishonest business practices.
• We provide business owners innovative advice and representation that solve business, commercial, and employment related problems quickly and economically.

Annette M. Messitt

• Phone: (206) 652-8660
• Fax: (206) 652-8290
• Email:

Practice Areas

• Civil litigation
• Appeals

Practice Description

Annette Messitt represents individuals and businesses in a variety of complex civil litigation. Before joining Breskin Johnson & Townsend, she spent over three years prosecuting felony criminal cases for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. As a deputy prosecutor in the Drug, Domestic Violence, and Violent Crime units, she conducted over twenty-five felony jury trials, and investigated and negotiated hundreds of felony criminal cases. She also handled a number of criminal appeals and argued cases at the Washington State Court of Appeals.

Before joining the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in 2005, Annette served as an associate attorney at Buck & Gordon, LLP, where she counseled private clients on various land use and construction law issues. As an associate, she co-chaired Bauman v. Turpin, 139 Wn. App. 78 (2007), which was named one the cases of the year in Washington Law and Politics magazine.

Honors and Affiliations

• Named Rising Star by Washington Law & Politics Magazine, 2007, 2009
• Law clerk to the Honorable Susan R. Agid at the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division One, 2002–2004
• Editor-in-Chief, DePaul Law Review, 2001–2002

Education

• J.D., DePaul University College of Law, 2002
• Master of Architecture, University of Illinois, 1996
• B.S. in Architectural Studies, University of Illinois, 1994