Alex French

Alex serves as one of the managing shareholders of GLP Attorneys, manages the firm’s complex litigation cases, and also manages the firm’s motions and appellate practice department. 

Alex has litigated hundreds of cases throughout Washington State, including cases involving wrongful death, maritime injury, nursing home abuse and neglect, construction site injury, insurance bad faith, logging accidents, work place injury, product liability, premises liability, medical malpractice, disclosure of medical information, shootings, explosions, airplane crash and injury, sexual abuse, motor vehicle collisions, semi-truck collisions, collisions involving pedestrians and bicyclists, dog bites, injuries caused by farm and domestic animals, traumatic brain injury, school injuries, injuries due to improper roadway design, and injuries caused by state, city, and municipal entities, including police. 

Alex started working in personal injury in 2004.  He joined GLP Attorneys as a legal intern in 2006, became an associate attorney in 2008, and a shareholder in 2016.  In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, Alex was awarded the Rising Star Super Lawyers Award, which is awarded to the top 2.5% of attorneys in the state. Alex is also an Eagle Member of the Washington State Association for Justice. He co-authored an article with GLP Shareholder James Gooding entitled Punitive Damages in Nursing Home (and other) Cases, WSAJ Trial News, March 2013.

Alex has helped to shape and change the law in a Washington Court of Appeals insurance bad faith decision Leahy v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., and in a Washington Supreme Court case, Kim, et. al. v. Lakeside Adult Family Home, et. al., creating civil liability for mandatory reporters who fail to report abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults.