Kirsten A. Schultz is an associate at Lee Smart. She concentrates her practice in civil litigation. Her areas of emphasis include professional malpractice, tort litigation, construction and product liability, and fire and property subrogation investigation and litigation. Ms. Schultz started her legal career in Seattle as a law clerk to the honorable R. Joseph Wesley in King County Superior Court in 1996. In the fall of 1997 she joined the Seattle office of Hagens Berman LLP, where a substantial amount of her time was devoted to attorney general tobacco actions. She was also involved in single-state, multi state and nationwide class actions involving consumer, antitrust and securities litigation. In January 2000 Ms. Schultz joined the Seattle office of Cozen O’Connor in the large loss property subrogation and recovery unit handling cases involving fires, explosions, structural collapses, machinery and equipment failures, and gas and water leaks. Ms. Schultz has successful recoveries on behalf of insurance company clients and recovered 100% of her client’s damages on several matters prior to filing a lawsuit. She earned her bachelor of arts degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo and her law degree at Western New England College in 1995, after spending her third year as a visiting student at the State University of New York at Buffalo law school. Ms. Schultz was a member of the National Environmental Moot Court Team at Western New England College and an editor of the Buffalo Environmental Law Journal. She is a member of the Washington State and American Bar Associations and was admitted to practice in Washington in 1996.