What are the opening hours?

Monday 7am - 5pm Tuesday 7am - 5pm Wednesday 7am - 5pm Thursday 7am - 5pm Friday 7am - 5pm

Cardinal North

Home
United States
Spokane, WA
Cardinal North

Call Directions Website Contact the business

Cardinal North is your trusted guide in your personal injury claim.

11/03/2026

In one case, my client went into a grocery store and it started raining. As she walked to her car, she stepped on a large piece of painted parking lot, slipped, and broke her leg. I researched if this was unreasonably dangerous. I learned from experts that the paint used wasn’t safe for outdoor use. I didn't know there were different kinds of paint with particulates to keep people from slipping.

Property owners are supposed to use this type of paint where there might be condensation or moisture. There is a whole industry for slip-resistant flooring around pools and gym locker rooms. This business should have used paint with particulates, but they didn’t. Because they didn’t, they were at fault for my client’s injuries.

10/29/2026

There are certain circumstances where a government entity might be one of the parties at fault for what happened. It is important to know if that is the case because there are certain notices, called tort claim notices, that have to be presented and served to the right people depending on who it is.

These must be served within a certain period of time. It is usually shorter than the normal statute of limitations; sometimes it can be shorter—six months or maybe a year. As the injured person, I have to let the government know there might be a claim, what the injuries are, and what the claim might be for. You have to put them on notice of your tort.

10/28/2026

Have you heard of a 30(b)(6) deposition?

It's a discovery tool that lets you depose the corporation itself. You send them a list of topics, and they have to present a witness who is knowledgeable and prepared to answer questions on all of those topics. When that witness shows up and testifies under oath, that testimony is binding — not the individual, but the corporation.

10/27/2026

One of the most rewarding parts of working with law students at Cardinal North is getting to see them take the next steps in their careers!

Maddie graduated from Gonzaga Law in spring 2026. She took and passed the Idaho bar exam and will be practicing as a deputy prosecutor at the Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

Congratulations, Maddie!

10/22/2026

A deposition is a discovery tool used to bind people to their testimony under oath.

During the discovery phase, attorneys get to question experts, witnesses, plaintiffs, and defendants on the record. Whatever they say in that room, they're bound to their testimony.

If someone decides to change their story at trial, that deposition gets used to impeach them. The jury gets to see exactly what they said earlier when they were under oath — and what they're saying now.

It works the same way with experts. We can use their deposition to bind them to specific statements and use that to prove parts of our case.

10/21/2026

Personal injury cases come down to four pieces.

Did someone have a responsibility?
Did they fail to meet it?
Did that cause harm?
And what did it actually cost the person?

Some of that is straightforward.

Some of it isn’t.

Because the real impact on someone’s life doesn’t always show up in a bill or a record—and that’s part of what we have to prove.

10/20/2026

Comparative fault comes up when someone says you're also to blame for what happened. And that comes down to what state you're in and whether you can still bring a claim.

In Washington, you could be 99% at fault and still bring a claim. Which is great because it allows for access to justice even if you've made mistakes and are part of it as well. Some states have a bar at 50%, some at 51%. In Washington there's no bar unless you're 100% at fault.

The way it works is when it comes down to the verdict, if the jury says your claim was worth $100,000 but you had 10% comparative fault, the judgment gets reduced by that 10%. You're awarded 90%.

10/15/2026

Is negligence ever shared between multiple defendants? The answer is yes, and we sometimes refer to that as joint and several liability. That is not applicable in every state, but in Washington we still have that.

Take a rear-end collision where one car gets hit and then gets hit a second time. Two impacts, two at-fault parties. Because the injuries happened that way, you can't apportion what part of the injuries or treatment came from the first impact versus the second.

And because of that, both at-fault parties can be held responsible for the client's injuries.

10/14/2026

Congratulations to our very own Caroline Marlow for passing the Washington bar exam.

Caroline has been working as a Law Clerk for Cardinal North while she awaited her September bar exam results. With her score, she will also seek admission in Idaho to expand Cardinal North’s mission to Make Lives Whole for our neighbors to the east. Well done, Caroline!

10/14/2026

A pedestrian client got hit by a car in a crosswalk. The driver claimed she jumped in front of the vehicle. A nearby business security camera would have captured everything, but their policy was to keep footage for a week and delete it unless they knew something had happened. They didn't know. The video was gone. Without it, the case dragged into full litigation — we deposed 14 different drivers who had been in the area, called people who had posted on Facebook about the news coverage, hired an accident reconstructionist, and deposed both parties. We eventually proved she was in the crosswalk, but the whole thing cost far more time and money than it should have.

One of the first things I tell people when they call me — even if they're not sure they want me to represent them yet — is go find out if there's video. Does a business have footage of it? Does someone have a Ring camera that might have caught something? Ask them to preserve it.

Address

400 S. Jefferson Street Suite 454
Spokane, WA
99204

Opening Hours

Monday	7am - 5pm
Tuesday	7am - 5pm
Wednesday	7am - 5pm
Thursday	7am - 5pm
Friday	7am - 5pm

Telephone

+15097766784

Website

https://cardinalnorthlaw.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Cardinal North posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.