About Colleen
Colleen Mriglot earned her law degree from Seattle University School of Law, receiving her J.D. in 2017. She earlier completed a B.A. in Criminal Justice at Chapman University in 2008. Those credentials bookend more than two decades of labor in and around legal practice, starting lengthy earlier than she took the bar exam.
Her entry into the legal field started in the early Nineteen Nineties as a paralegal. She labored at Kargianis Watkins Marler in 1993 and later at Heller Wiegenstein in 1997. In the years that observed she served as a paralegal at a number of small companies, including the Law Office of Thomas S. Olmstead in 2005, the Law Office of David P. Horton in 2008, and Sherrard McGonagle Tizzano, P.S. in 2009. In 2001 she took a detour from the legal world and ran Moxie Boutique, Inc., an experience that further enterprise and control point of view to her résumé. She returned to the company environment and transitioned to practice as an attorney in 2018 when she joined Sherrard McGonagle Tizzano & Lind.
Her profession trail displays continuous immersion in litigation help roles observed by the responsibilities senior advisor. The development from paralegal positions to an attorney role on the same company underscores familiarity with case preparation and courtroom procedures. Her admission to practice in Washington and before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington lets in her to function at each state and federal levels.
Mriglot maintains memberships in a variety of expert and network organizations. She belongs to the Kitsap County Bar Association and Washington Women Lawyers. She has been a member of the Washington State Association for Justice and the American Bar Association since 2018. In 2021 she joined the American Association for Justice. She is likewise lively in her local network thru the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island, where she has been concerned since 2020.
Colleagues describe her as someone who understands the realistic mechanics of litigation from the floor up. Her years as a paralegal inform how she prepares documents, communicates with clients, and coordinates with experts. She brings that institutional knowledge to the instances she handles at her firm.
She practices at Sherrard McGonagle Tizzano & Lind, representing clients in things filed in Washington state courts and in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
