Rodney L. Umberger

Rod Umberger is the Managing Partner of Williams Kastner, a Pacific Northwest law firm with offices in Washington State (Seattle and Spokane) and Oregon (Portland). Rod is a past Chair of USLAW NETWORK and serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He is first and foremost a trial lawyer with experience handling product liability, transportation, premises liability, toxic tort, class actions and a variety of commercial litigation matters. He also has experience representing insurers as coverage and monitoring counsel on large loss claims. In the transportation arena, Rod has represented trucking companies and private fleets for Fortune 100 corporations in catastrophic highway accident litigation, emergency responses, regulatory matters, cargo claims and broker/shipper/carrier liability disputes in both state and federal courts. Rod also has advised transportation companies and transportation-related product manufacturers involved in NTSB investigations and coordinated responses to NTSB investigations. He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, named in Best Lawyers in America, and was one of only 16 attorneys in Washington State recognized as a top civil litigation defense attorney by Corporate Counsel Edition of Super Lawyers.