ANNE MELANI BREMNER Attorney/Legal Analyst
Anne Bremner’s 24 year career has established her as an exceptionally accomplished trial lawyer. She maintains an active law practice as a Litigation Shareholder at the Seattle law firm Stafford Frey Cooper. She is a former Judicial Law Clerk who spent five years earning a reputation as a highly successful, tough, and focused King County Prosecutor. Her private practice has an emphasis on high-profile trial work. She represents the Seattle Police and other Washington State police departments and officers as well as Judges and Priests in civil and criminal trials. She recently represented Washington State Attorney General (now Governor) Chris Gregoire and the Attorney General's office in a highly publicized civil action. Ms. Bremner was defense counsel and obtained defense verdicts in Vili Fualaau v. Highline School District and the Des Moines Police Department (the "Mary Kay Letourneau case"). She has successfully defended class actions in WTO based litigation and for the SPD Police Dogs (the K-9 Unit) in a national test case brought by the ACLU.  Ms. Bremner's career is marked by the distinction of being included in the top 1% of Trial Lawyers in the United States and Canada who meet the rigid requirements for Fellowship in the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, for which she was selected as the National Representative for all of the Fellows to give their formal presentation at her class' Induction in March, 2003. Ms. Bremner is a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has been a frequent lecturer for seminars throughout the United States, St. Kitts and in Costa Rica. She is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. She is "AV" rated ("preeminent"). She was a semifinalist to be the U.S. Attorney in Washington. Ms. Bremner has been named a "Superlawyer" (top 5% of lawyers in Washington State) by her peers in 1999 through 2008 and was voted by her peers as one of Seattle's 92 best attorneys in 2001 and one of Seattle's top 115 attorneys in 2003 in Seattle Magazine. She was named (again by her peers) as one of the "Top Ten Women Lawyers" in Washington State and one of the "25 Smartest People" in Washington State in Law & Politics Magazine. In March, 2008 Ms. Bremner was inducted as a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an honor extended to only an elite group of trial lawyers when “both their peers and the judiciary believe the candidate possesses, in an exceptional degree, the following qualifications: superior skill and recognized ability in trial and appellate practice, services rendered in promoting the best interests of the legal profession and the highest standards and techniques of advocacy and excellent character and absolute integrity."

Media Appearances...

Ms. Bremner appears regularly as a legal analyst for the following networks:

• Court TV

• MSNBC

• Fox News Channel

• CNN

• CNN Headline News

• ABC Good Morning America

• CBS Early Show

• Northwest Cable News

• A & E

• E! News Channel

• BBC World

• GMTV Europe

Ms. Bremner has been profiled in the BarBulletin; DeNovo Magazine and in the Law and Politics piece entitled "Headliners and Legends," and the 2004 Seattle Weekly "Best of Seattle" issue (Best Defender of the Police). She was featured in Seattle Magazine's November 2004 issue as one of "The Power List: The 25 Most Influential People in Seattle" (the only selected in "Law").  Learn more about Anne Bremner and Stafford Frey Cooper at: www.staffordfrey.com.