Jamie Polito Johnston is a principal at Lasher. Her practice focuses on complex marital dissolutions and legal separations, committed intimate relationships, cohabitation/prenuptial agreements, as well as spousal maintenance, child support, and parenting issues.
Resolution-oriented and providing responsive and personal service to her clients at demanding and stressful times, Johnston represents high net worth individuals with respect to complex and unique financial issues, including the valuation and division of closely-held companies, stock options and awards, family trusts and partnerships, and separate property tracing. Her clients include busy professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, athletes, executives, and their partners who wish to resolve matters efficiently and with minimal impact on their children and family relationships.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Family Lawyers | 2027 | Marital Dissolution, Legal Separation, Child Custody |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Family Lawyers | 2026 | Marital Dissolution, Legal Separation, Child Custody |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Family Lawyers | 2025 | Marital Dissolution, Legal Separation, Child Custody |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Family Lawyers | 2024 | |
| Lawdragon 500 Leading Family Lawyers | 2020 |
In her 20 years of practice, Johnston has developed a reputation as a compassionate and skilled advocate and advisor for her clients. Whether utilizing traditional dispute resolution methods through litigation, or alternatives such as mediation, or the Collaborative Law process, Johnston helps her clients by developing sound and creative solutions tied to their individual goals and needs, which are often achieved by teaming with other professional experts and advisors, such as CPAs, forensic accountants, parenting experts/coaches and corporate/estate planning attorneys.
- Collaborative Law Training
- Professional Mediation Skills Training Program, University of Washington School of Law
- A highly skilled litigator and negotiator, Johnston has successfully represented numerous clients in a wide range of family law disputes including marital dissolution cases involving high net-worth estates, business and professional practice valuations, pensions, retirement assets, separate property and tracing analyses, as well as high-conflict child custody and child support matters. She has extensive experience litigating matters both in court and through the mediation/arbitration process.
- In addition to representing clients in traditional litigation cases, Johnston also focuses her practice in Collaborative Law, a voluntary, guided and team-oriented process by which parties agree to resolve disputes in a cooperative setting outside of the courtroom.