Proudly served as President of the Washington State Bar Association, the body that regulates and supports the 41,000+ attorneys eligible to practice law in Washington.

Raised in rural Eastern Idaho, Rajeev (of Irish, Italian and Bengali descent… since we knew you would ask!) completed his undergraduate studies at Albertson College of Idaho in the sciences. He came to Washington in 1999 to do graduate work at the University of Washington, earning Masters in both Public Administration and International Studies. While completing his graduate research, he traveled extensively in Burma and India, worked as a consultant in matters of international security, and was recruited to work for the National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington D.C. Working for the Federal Government during the events of 9/11, he had a first-hand view of the Pentagon hours after it was hit, and visited the New York site several weeks later. He worked to establish protocols of cooperation between the United States and several other nations to ensure the containment of WMD technology, which inspired him to go to law school. 

Rajeev attended law school at Seattle University, during which time he worked for the prestigious plaintiff’s litigation firm Carney Badley Spellman and served as a prosecutor for the Tulalip Indian Nation, having passed the Tulalip Nation’s bar exam. Hailing from a rural setting, and having tasted the fruits of Seattle and Washington D.C., Rajeev had long set his sights on Whatcom County as the perfect setting for the best of both worlds. After serving as a consultant on a statistical analysis and enforcement project for the State’s Division of Child Support in Seattle, and taking the time to find the perfect fit, he joined the firm as a litigator in 2008

Since 2008, Rajeev has successfully represented the people and businesses of Whatcom County in every court in the region, including every municipal court in Whatcom County, the Lummi and Nooksack Tribal Courts, the Whatcom and Skagit District and Superior Courts, Washington's Court of Appeals, and the Federal District Court of the Western District of Washington.

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