Dennis S. Harlowe
(253) 284-4411
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Practice: General Counsel for closely held and family-owned enterprises, including Concrete Technology Corporation, Dean Lee, Inc. d/b/a Honda of Fife, Gensco, Inc., Jesse Engineering Company, Murray Pacific Corporation, Rainier Mountaineering, Inc., Tacoma Land Company, Inc., West Fork Timber Company, and Wilcox Farms, Inc.

Experience: Dennis was a Law Clerk for the Hon. George H. Boldt, U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Washington (1966 - 1968) and began private practice with Blair, Thomas, O'Hern & Daheim. The Blair firm merged in 1970  to become Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim LLP. Dennis was a founder of Harlowe & Falk LLP in 2003. Dennis successfully argued  before the United States Supreme Court. U.S. ex rel. Industrial Lumber Co. v. F.D. Rich, 417 U.S. 116, 40 L.Ed. 703 (1974). He is admitted to practice in Washington and Montana.

Education: Dennis graduated from Custer County High School in Miles City, Montana, and from the University of Montana (1963) and the University of Montana Law School (1966) in Missoula.

Affiliations, Publications and Honors: Dennis has been peer selected for listing among "The Best Lawyers in America" continuously since 1999. He is listed as a Washington "Super Lawyer". Dennis authored "Antitrust Exemptions: Labor, Agriculture, International Commerce," Washington State Bar Association (1978); co-authored "Legal Compliance Checkups; Business Clients" Callaghan, (1985); and authored "The Endangered Species Act, A Short. Short Course", Washington State Conservation Commission, eLibrary (January, 2000). Dennis was the principal attorney for the first "All Species" Habitat Conservation Plan under the Endangered Species Act in the United States (1995) and earlier for the first Habitat Conservation Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl in the Northwest (1993). Dennis was a bar examiner and a director of the Board of Bar Examiners for Washington State Bar Association from 1979-1984 and Co-Chairman of the Continuing Legal Education Committee, 1979-1981, as well as a past member of the CLE Executive Committee, 1980-1982; a member of the Policy Committee, 1985-1987; and a member of the CLE Board of Directors, 1987-1990.