Sasha S. Philip is a licensed attorney who practiced civil litigation for well over a decade before becoming a certified professional mediator and arbitrator, based on the conviction that conflict is most effectively resolved without the emotional and financial cost of litigation.
Sasha draws on her extensive experience representing parties in mediations and arbitrations of litigated cases in state and federal courts for her mediation and arbitration practice.
Sasha is trained and experienced in mediations of litigated cases as well as in the facilitative mediation model. As such, Ms. Philip offers customized mediations both of cases that are in litigation and of disputes in which no formal lawsuit has been filed, and utilizes both evaluative and interest-based techniques to tailor mediations to her clients' unique needs.
Sasha is certified as a Rule 39.1 Neutral by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. She is contracted to provide dispute resolution services to Central Washington University and Western Washington University, and mediates Special Education Disputes as a member of Sound Options Group's mediator cadre and for the Nevada Department of Education. She is also active as a mediation trainer, coach, and volunteer mediator for the EEOC's Seattle Field Office and the Seattle Office for Civil Rights, the Seattle Federal Executive Board's ADR Consortium, the King County Dispute Resolution Center, and the City of Bellevue Neighborhood Mediation Program.
Sasha is a AAA commercial and consumer arbitration panel member and a AAA mediation panel member, a panelist on the FINRA arbitrator roster, a member of the Balance Billing Arbitration rosters for the states of Washington, Virginia, and Texas, and an arbitrator for King County and Snohomish County Superior Courts civil arbitration matters. She is also available to act as an agreed-upon arbitrator in private, AAA, MAR, UM/UIM, and FINRA arbitrations.
In addition, Sasha has been a lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law and an adjunct faculty member at Seattle University School of Law.
Sasha received a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science from Vassar College and a J.D. from Tulane University Law School. She obtained her Professional Mediation Skills Training Certificate from the University of Washington School of Law in 2007, completed a rigorous WMA-approved mediation practicum and certification under the joint auspices of the Bellevue Neighborhood Mediation Program and the Seattle Federal Executive Board's ADR Consortium, and has acquired extensive additional training in conciliation, negotiation and mediation techniques from various accredited sources.
Sasha served as a member of the Washington State Bar Association's ADR Section executive committee from 2014 to 2022, and chaired the acclaimed annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference from 2016 to 2019. She was selected as a "SuperLawyer" by Washington Law & Politics' SuperLawyers magazine in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and as a "Rising Star" in 2006, 2008, 2012-2015, and 2019. In 2014 and 2015, Ms. Philip was named as the sole “Rising Star” in the practice area of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
When not serving her clients as a mediator or arbitrator, Sasha enjoys singing with the Seattle Symphony Chorale, cooking (and eating!), paddle boarding, hiking and camping with her dogs in her self-converted camper van. She is married with two stepsons, and is a native German speaker.
Sasha draws on her extensive experience representing parties in mediations and arbitrations of litigated cases in state and federal courts for her mediation and arbitration practice.
Sasha is trained and experienced in mediations of litigated cases as well as in the facilitative mediation model. As such, Ms. Philip offers customized mediations both of cases that are in litigation and of disputes in which no formal lawsuit has been filed, and utilizes both evaluative and interest-based techniques to tailor mediations to her clients' unique needs.
Sasha is certified as a Rule 39.1 Neutral by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. She is contracted to provide dispute resolution services to Central Washington University and Western Washington University, and mediates Special Education Disputes as a member of Sound Options Group's mediator cadre and for the Nevada Department of Education. She is also active as a mediation trainer, coach, and volunteer mediator for the EEOC's Seattle Field Office and the Seattle Office for Civil Rights, the Seattle Federal Executive Board's ADR Consortium, the King County Dispute Resolution Center, and the City of Bellevue Neighborhood Mediation Program.
Sasha is a AAA commercial and consumer arbitration panel member and a AAA mediation panel member, a panelist on the FINRA arbitrator roster, a member of the Balance Billing Arbitration rosters for the states of Washington, Virginia, and Texas, and an arbitrator for King County and Snohomish County Superior Courts civil arbitration matters. She is also available to act as an agreed-upon arbitrator in private, AAA, MAR, UM/UIM, and FINRA arbitrations.
In addition, Sasha has been a lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law and an adjunct faculty member at Seattle University School of Law.
Sasha received a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science from Vassar College and a J.D. from Tulane University Law School. She obtained her Professional Mediation Skills Training Certificate from the University of Washington School of Law in 2007, completed a rigorous WMA-approved mediation practicum and certification under the joint auspices of the Bellevue Neighborhood Mediation Program and the Seattle Federal Executive Board's ADR Consortium, and has acquired extensive additional training in conciliation, negotiation and mediation techniques from various accredited sources.
Sasha served as a member of the Washington State Bar Association's ADR Section executive committee from 2014 to 2022, and chaired the acclaimed annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference from 2016 to 2019. She was selected as a "SuperLawyer" by Washington Law & Politics' SuperLawyers magazine in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and as a "Rising Star" in 2006, 2008, 2012-2015, and 2019. In 2014 and 2015, Ms. Philip was named as the sole “Rising Star” in the practice area of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
When not serving her clients as a mediator or arbitrator, Sasha enjoys singing with the Seattle Symphony Chorale, cooking (and eating!), paddle boarding, hiking and camping with her dogs in her self-converted camper van. She is married with two stepsons, and is a native German speaker.
