Che Dawson

Che Dawson practiced in the area of Immigration Law prior to joining the Highline faculty. He teaches Civil Litigation, Ethics, Legal Research, Immigration Law, Sports Law and Constitutional Law.

Che is also the Highline College Men’s Basketball Coach .

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Bruce Lamb

Bruce Lamb is the program coordinator.  He is also a lawyer and teacher, who likes to assist nonprofit organizations. He teaches legal research and writing, nonprofit law, civil procedure, medical law and ethics, civil rights law and other courses. For more than twenty years he was a partner in a civil litigation firm and tried cases in state and federal court. As a volunteer attorney for Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, he represents immigrants and refugees in immigration court. He has served as staff and on the boards of directors of International Leadership Academy of Ethiopia and other nonprofit organizations, and has served as a nonprofit consultant on a wide variety of projects. He has a J.D. from the University of Oregon and an MPA from the University of Washington. He is licensed to practice in Oregon and Washington.

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Kevin Rainge

Experienced Senior Legal Counsel with a demonstrated history of working in the IT, insurance and health care industries. Skilled in Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Employment Law, Legal Compliance, Contracts, Governmental Affairs, and Commercial Litigation. Kevin has over ten years experience at Highline College teaching Introduction to Law, Business, Law, Employment Law, and other legal studies courses.

Sylvia Hall

Sylvia Hall has over 15 years of civil litigation experience. She has represented insurance companies and individuals in a wide array of trial and appellate court matters, including the defense of claims involving personal injury, premises liability, product liability and construction defects. Sylvia has experience in both state and federal trial courts in Washington State. She has successfully tried cases to defense verdicts and has successfully defended cases in the Courts of Appeal.

Robert Nylander

Bob’s law practice emphasized commercial litigation, in such areas as business disputes, real estate, intellectual property and computer law His practice included appellate matters, handling cases on referral from other attorneys. Representative cases have ranged from the determination of ranchers’ water rights to the admissibility of DNA evidence in criminal cases to the constitutionality of the state’s prison labor program, as well as numerous non-compete, theft of trade secrets, infringement, computer tort and other business cases.

Ellen Reed

Ellen Reed has spent most of her career providing legal aid to low-income people in King County as a paralegal and program coordinator with the Neighborhood Legal Clinics, the Housing Justice Project, and the Washington State Bar Association. She was appointed to the original Limited License Legal Technician Board and later was the Limited License Legal Technician Program Lead at the Washington State Bar Association. As Ellen worked on innovative regulatory solutions to the access to justice crisis, she began studying the ways technology could help connect people to legal services. Ellen and a lawyer/programmer named Jacob Wicks created an organization called inForm Legal Tech that focuses on promoting innovation in access to justice through technology. She is currently working on creating new court and public safety technology with Tyler Technologies and completing a master’s in the Human-Centered Design and Engineering program at the University of Washington’s School of Engineering. Ellen is a member of the Access to Justice Board’s Technology Committee, volunteers with the Court Recovery Task Force, and is the chair of the Access to Justice Conference Technology Committee. She is also working with community organizations and a partner at the University of Washington to create interactive visualization tools for people navigating the domestic violence protection order process.