Timera C. Drake

Timera C. Drake handles cases in the areas of Administrative Law and Criminal Defense. Her passion and dedication to her craft makes her stand out when it comes to case outcomes for her clients.

Administrative Law is an expansive filed of law that encompasses all Washington state agencies and all federal agencies. Timera has limited her administrative practice to cases in the following areas: Workers' Compensation, Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (claimant's side), unemployment benefits appeals, and Fish & Wildlife infractions and crimes. She wants to ensure that clients get all the state and federal benefits they are entitled to receive. She has the focus and patience to see these cases through to their conclusion, which sometimes takes years.

Timera's passion is Criminal Defense. She saw the effects of an inequitable criminal justice system growing up, and she wanted to level the playing field for individuals accused of a crime. Timera's criminal defense clients--most of whom have significant barriers to justice including poverty, homelessness, and mental illness--overwhelmingly see excellent outcomes in their criminal cases. Timera has worked in nearly all municipal, district, and superior courts in Seattle and South King County, and has worked in Pierce County Superior Court and District Court. Her criminal defense experience spans five years and hundreds of cases from Marysville to Tacoma. She has excellent working relationships with prosecutors and Judges, and other criminal defense attorneys throughout King County and the greater Seattle area.

In her criminal practice, Timera has gained extensive knowledge about the intersection of criminal law and mental illness, the intersection of domestic violence and criminal law, and international criminal law (The International Criminal Court, The Hague). She has taken courses overseas in European family law, and international criminal law. She is well-versed in several of The Hague Convention Treaties as they apply to child custody matters and war crimes.