Richland Personal Injury Attorney

George was born in Bellevue, Washington to Bud and Kathy Telquist. My parents were hard working, my dad a truck driver and my mom worked in a convenience store. I spent most of my youth in Woodinville, Washington where I was an active member on school activities and sports. A strong family value in my home growing up was work ethic. I had my first job at 14, working the full-service gas pumps at the convenience store where my mom worked. This was the beginning of my core value of a strong work ethic and also convinced me that I enjoyed working with people. 

After graduating from Woodinville High School, I attended Washington State University, graduating in 1993. Although raised in the shadows of the University of Washington, I often say that I was in Pullman for 10 minutes and was a life-long Coug. I also fell in love with the Eastern Washington lifestyle and values. 

While at WSU, I considered multiple professions, all of which included helping people in times of need. I ultimately decided to attend law school, attending Gonzaga University School of Law, serving on Law Review as an Associate Editor, and had the honor of serving as the chairperson of the William O. Douglass Committee. 

Upon graduating from Gonzaga, I had opportunities to move to larger cities to practice. However, my love for Eastern Washington kept me in the area and I accepted a job in Kennewick, Washington. As a young associate lawyer, I quickly found my passion – trial work. I further found that I enjoyed helping those injured by others. I decided I wanted to be a personal injury trial lawyer. 

Within a couple years I experienced success as a personal injury lawyer. As an associate level attorney, I collected millions of dollars for injured people. My first “big” case was helping a young woman recover $750,000 for a broken femur in an accident. To this day I discuss how fulfilling it was to assist a young woman who felt that she had nobody to trust or to turn to. 

After becoming a partner in 2001, I continued to help people in personal injury cases, expanding my practice beyond car accident cases to medical malpractice cases. With the birth of my kids in 2004 and 2006, I began exploring how I could continue to pursue significant results for my clients while raising children. I decided to create what is now Telaré Law in 2007. 

Telaré Law has been a significant and preeminent leader in personal injury cases in Eastern Washington since 2007. Telaré has the fortune of jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of its clients more than $50 million dollars. In addition to practicing in Superior Court, I have practiced in the Washington State Court of Appeals, State Supreme Court, Eastern District of Washington, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and have petitioned for certiorari to the US Supreme Court. 

While collecting tens of millions of dollars has been a source of pride for me, and my most significant moment was when I changed the law for kids of the State of Washington in medical malpractice claims by taking a case to the Supreme Court. Through my efforts, the Supreme Court agreed that the law that limited the time that kids could bring claims was unconstitutional. As a result of my efforts, kids of Washington State who are harmed by doctors have equal rights of adults. 

The case helping kids was not a large monetary case. But it was for the good of the people of Washington. I have a strong sense of community service as evidenced by my award of the Gene Schuster Pro Bono Award in 2014, awarded to the local attorney who provides exceptional free legal services to the needy. 

I take exceptional pride in my legal successes. I also focus on the people that immediately impact my life. I raised two thriving children who are active and responsible members of the community. In 2005 I met his current partner Andrea, a local lawyer. In 2014 Andrea joined Telaré Law. Together we have obtained significant judgments and settlements for Telaré Law clients. We have adopted a team approach to better serve clients and to get the best results. 

Since becoming business partners, Andrea and I have created the greatest partnership and decided to marry. We enjoy being trial lawyers together but also raising our collective 5 kids in an environment of hard work, fun, and exploration.