About Us - Hoskins Morriss Family Law Group, PLLC
In response to a market filled with "production line" family law firms, we opened the client-centered Hoskins Morriss Family Law Group in late 2008. Our clients are names not numbers. We offer our clients convenient office hours, quick response times and thoughtful answers specific to their needs. We understand the expense related to litigation and approach expense issues first with cost benefit analysis tempered with client goals. We offer skilled diplomatic skills and/or aggressive litigation tactics. Our focus is on protecting our client and our client's goals.
We believe in happy endings. Divorce is a difficult process only entered in hopes of obtaining a better family situation. Divorce is "Plan B". No one enters marriage thinking about divorce.

Laura Hoskins
After earning an "A" in her family law class at Seattle University School of Law, Laura went on to work for the family law professor - Super Lawyer Janet George. As a Rule 9 legal intern, Laura went on to work for Stella Pitts in downtown Seattle. Laura most enjoys working one on one with her clients.

Laura was born in Haleyville, Alabama. She put herself through both college and law school working full-time and attending school at night. Her partnership with Earl Morriss began in Atlanta, Georgia in 1983.

Laura enjoys litigation, has tried cases in King and Snohomish counties and has argued before the Washington State Court of Appeals. The appellate case issues have varied from a meretricous relationship, an eviction procedural issue and an adverse possession issue.

The most rewarding portion of Laura's career has been work with Gerry Spence and the Trial Lawyer's College. Through that work, Laura appreciates the sanctity of a client's story and her role to work toward achieving justice by embracing that story and retelling it in a court of law.


Earl Morriss
As the son of a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech (son of a civil engineer from the school in Georgia which is not the University of Georgia) it was not surprising that Earl entered an engineering type career. Working his way up from a Rodman on a land survey crew to the Survey Department Director for a large engineering firm.

Earl was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents put him through the first few years of college, but, in the end he had to put himself through evening classes to graduate from Georgia State University (the working class university in georgia which is neither Georgia Tech or the University of Georgia). And then, after being away from college for 15 years, he was accepted to attend the University of Miami School of Law at the young age of fourty. After his 1L year at Miami he returned to Seattle to accept an executive job with that large engineering firm. After attending evening classes at Seattle University School of Law for thirty straight months - while more than holding down a full time job - he graduated with his JD.

Earl continued to work full time in land surveying - working mainly in the area of residential development. Eventually he started to practice law part-time and then made the switch to a full-time practice. While his practice centers on real property litagation, he finds the same practice skills also apply to the practice of family law: Listening to clients, understanding the problem, recognizing the applicable rules and finding the best and shortest route to the settlement of the issue.

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Hoskins Morriss Family Law Group, PLLC
Seattle: 1411 Fourth Avenue, Suite 1027 (425) 374-3417
Everett: 2918 Colby Avenue, Suite 204 (425) 374-3417 Facsimile: (425) 328-1893