Andrew Nathan Becker

ANDREW N. BECKER is a trial attorney who is partners with his longtime friend, trial attorney David Rovang, comprising the firm BECKER ROVANG, located in Port Orchard, Kitsap County, with an emphasis on car accident claims on behalf of plaintiffs. Mr. Becker also regularly appears on behalf of transit companies, defending bus companies and then* drivers against bodily injury claims. He graduated Cum Laude from the University of Puget Sound School of Law in 1984. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Becker was the President of the Kitsap County Bar Association in 1998. He is an Eagle member of WSTLA (now called WSAJ), the Washington Trial Lawyers' organization. He twice chaired the WSTLA Kitsap Roundtable. He served as a member of the Washington Bar Association's Disciplinary Board from 1992-1995. He has also served as a Special Disciplinary Counsel and as a member of the Washington Bar Association's Character and Fitness Committee.

Mr. Becker was twice chosen by Washington Law and Politics as a Super Lawyer. In 2009 and 2010 Mr. Becker was voted "Best Attorney" of South Kitsap by the readers of the Port Orchard Independent. He is frequently chosen to mediate personal injury claims and was an inaugural member of the Kitsap County Superior Court's Mediation Panel. He is also a Federal Court 39.1 mediator. He is frequently selected to arbitrate MAR and UIM matters. He has also served as a judge pro tempore in the local district and municipal courts for many years.

Although Mr. Becker's bread and butter cases involve representing plaintiffs injured in car collisions, he is also known for his work on behalf of the plaintiffs in Trash v. Kitsap County, that resulted in a 4.7 million dollar settlement against Kitsap County, and Kim K. and Gabrielle H. v. Harper and Church of South Colby, that resulted in the forfeiture of church property to plaintiffs in a case involving significant child sexual abuse.