Representative Experience
Kristen Bates is a real estate and land development attorney with diverse experience handling complex matters such as large retail-landlord lease negotiations, detailed purchase and sale agreements, and easements involving numerous parties. She drafts, reviews and negotiates leases; reciprocal easement agreements (REAs); covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs); subordination, nondisturbance and attornment agreements (SNDAs); and estoppel certificates. Kristen also serves as a leasing specialist for a telecommunications client, where she manages many aspects of the client's network growth and development.
Prior Experience
Associate Counsel, Barclays North, Inc., Everett, WA
Attorney, Sole Proprietor, Kristen M. Bates, Vancouver, WA
Publications and Presentations
Co-Editor, “Art Law Nutshell,” by Leonard DuBoff, West Publishing, 2006
Memberships and Activities
Government Relations Chair, International Commission Shopping Center (ICSC), Seattle, WA, 2007-present
Real Property, Probate and Trust Section, Washington State Bar Association
U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
Young Lawyers Division, King County Bar Association
Washington Women Lawyers, King County Chapter
Education
J.D., Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI, 2005
- Thomas M. Cooley Law Journal
B.A. in Political Science, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 1999
Languages
Fluent in Spanish
