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, she 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.
Sasha is a AAA commercial and consumer arbitration panel member and a AAA mediation panel member, 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, and UM/UIM 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 served as a member of the Washington State Bar Association's ADR Section executive committee from 2014 to 2022, chaired the acclaimed annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference from 2016 to 2019, and continues to serve on the conference planning committee. She was selected as a "Rising Star" in 2006, 2008, 2012-2015, and 2019 by Washington Law & Politics' SuperLawyers magazine, and as a "SuperLawyer" in 2020-2024.
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 was born in India, raised in Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1992. She currently lives just outside Seattle with her husband and her two owner-trained service dogs. When not serving her clients as a mediator or arbitrator, Sasha volunteers as a service dog trainer for Atlas Assistance Dogs, serves on the board of Atlas Assistance Dogs, enjoys cooking (and eating!), paddle boarding, hiking, and camping in her self-converted tiny camper van.
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, she 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.
Sasha is a AAA commercial and consumer arbitration panel member and a AAA mediation panel member, 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, and UM/UIM 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 served as a member of the Washington State Bar Association's ADR Section executive committee from 2014 to 2022, chaired the acclaimed annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference from 2016 to 2019, and continues to serve on the conference planning committee. She was selected as a "Rising Star" in 2006, 2008, 2012-2015, and 2019 by Washington Law & Politics' SuperLawyers magazine, and as a "SuperLawyer" in 2020-2024.
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 was born in India, raised in Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1992. She currently lives just outside Seattle with her husband and her two owner-trained service dogs. When not serving her clients as a mediator or arbitrator, Sasha volunteers as a service dog trainer for Atlas Assistance Dogs, serves on the board of Atlas Assistance Dogs, enjoys cooking (and eating!), paddle boarding, hiking, and camping in her self-converted tiny camper van.
