Overview
Jacque’s practice focuses on providing litigation and transactional counseling in the land use development and real estate industries. This includes representing a broad range of clients, from small businesses to large international corporations; and from single-family tenants and landlords, to multi-building residential and commercial property owners and managers.
Jacque represents clients in a variety of commercial and residential real estate transactions, including the acquisition, development and sale of single family, multi-family, mixed use and commercial properties. She represents clients in all phases of real estate transactions, including the drafting and negotiation of purchase and sale agreements and leases, conducting real estate diligence, and litigating disputes that might arise related to all types of real estate transactions.
Jacque also regularly represents and advises clients on boundary, title issues and easement issues and she assists clients, from the initial application through the appeals process, with land use, permitting, zoning issues, and entitlement issues.
Jacque is the co-chair of the firm’s litigation and real estate departments, as well as the firm’s hiring committee.
Representative Matters
- Successfully represented short-term Seattle rental owners in an appeal of the City’s revocation of their short-term rental licenses, which allowed for their licenses to be reinstated.
- Serves as outside legal counsel for numerous multi-family housing owners and managers in Washington state.
- Serves as outside legal counsel for large mixed-use building owners in Washington state.
- Successfully represented a family who had fled gang violence in El Salvador in a pro bono asylum application process, allowing them to remain in the United States indefinitely.
Presentations & Publications (Select)
- Author, “Temporary Restrictions on Evictions and Foreclosures in Seattle,” KTC Client Alert (2020)
- Author, “Commercial Lease Obligations in the Time of COVID-19,” KTC Client Alert (2020)
Awards & Unique Recognition
- Designated a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers, for multiple consecutive years beginning in 2014-2023, consecutively.
Personal
Outside of the office, Jacque enjoys attending Seahawks games, skiing, traveling, camping and spending time with her twin sons and husband. Jacque especially enjoys helping with her boys’ baseball and soccer teams.
Languages
French (basic)