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Rob Sargeant, the founder of Sargeant Legal P.S., is an experienced attorney who focuses his law practice on his clients' real estate transaction closings and resolving conflicts through litigation and alternative dispute resolution techniques. Buyers, sellers, lenders, landlords and tenants, lawyers and other industry professionals engage Rob's services. He has represented national and local title insurers and their insureds. As the commercial and residential markets evolved, Rob's legal practice has emphasized legal services needed by business and personal interests. Rob also serves as an expert consultant and witness advising and testifying in complex litigation. Rob is regularly retained for confidential mediation sessions, having completed the Strauss Institute certification at Pepperdine University Law School. He has also been appointed as an arbitrator in court-sanctioned and privately contracted proceedings.

For many years Rob Sargeant was an outside counsel retained by brokerage and title companies in claims litigation, where he learned the real estate, brokerage and title insurance and escrow businesses. Rob then worked in the land title industry, as a manager, underwriter, counsel and business development officer. He understands the pressures his real estate clients face because he has been an executive decision maker for a national title underwriter. Rob is well versed in the closing industry and is often retained on commercial transactions to advise real estate professionals and their lawyers in working with title and escrow officers to close substantial transactions. He has been a speaker on industry and lawyer panels on real estate, land title, escrow, brokerage and title insurance topics. For years Rob was counsel to the Washington Land Title Association as amicus curiae, representing the industry in such hotly disputed cases as Ellingsen v. Franklin County, a decision defining what constitutes record notice. Rob has testified as an independent expert in federal and state court, helping judges, lawyers, juries and parties to understand real estate industry functions and accepted practices.

Sargeant Legal P.S. is a law firm that provides legal services to clients in the real estate and land title industries. The firm's clients include buyers, sellers, lenders, landlords, tenants, brokers, lawyers, title companies and others in the real estate and land title industries. The firm's practice areas include real estate transactions, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution.

Rob Sargeant has been practicing law for over 38 years. He has been admitted to practice law in Alaska, Oregon and Washington State. He has also been admitted to practice before United States District Courts in the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington, the United States District Courts for Oregon and Alaska, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and United States Supreme Court.