Attorneys

PRINCIPAL

Marc A. Bateman

Marc emphasizes providing high quality legal services at a reasonable cost, and on giving understandable explanations to clients regarding legal processes and options so that clients are better equipped to make important decisions.  His practice’s primarily focus is wills and trusts, probate and estate administration, guardianship, and related real estate, business and tax matters. His clients include professionals, business owners, working couples and retired individuals; financial planners, trust officers, accountants and other attorneys; national banks, trust companies and bankruptcy trustees.

Marc Bateman’s local roots go deep. The son of Arthur T. Bateman (1917-1995), a prominent Seattle attorney during the post WWII years, Marc is a product of Highline High School (1972) and the University of Washington (BA in Economics with Distinction, Magna Cum Laude 1976, Phi Beta Kappa; JD, 1979).

Over the years, Marc has been an active in local churches, private school boards and committees, musical performance groups, and as a volunteer in his family’s sports, musical and school activities and organizations.  Marc is married to Kathryn, a registered nurse who works in nursing leadership and administration.  Their principal accomplishment in their over 30 years of marriage is their three adult children, each of whom has multiple degrees and accolades to their name.

Marc is available to assist community, church, and nonprofit groups in providing educational materials and presentations to assist them in educating and informing their members concerning legal topics within the scope of his practice.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Juris Doctor, 1979

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
B.A., Economics, 1976

Activities & Affiliations

• Washington State Bar Association

• Elder Law Section, Member

• Real Property, Probate & Trusts Section, Member

Bar Admissions

• Washington

Associate

Elizabeth G. Bateman

Elizabeth's practice focuses primarily on guardianship and incapacity planning, vulnerable adult protection, estate planning, and estate and trust administration. 

Elizabeth has a passion for working with low income seniors.  She credits much of her interest in elder law not only to working with her father over the last several years, but also to her involvement with the Elder Law Practice Group at the University of St. Thomas’s Legal Services Clinic, where she advocated for low income seniors facing exploitation, eviction, and termination of services. 

During law school in Minneapolis, and for a period thereafter, she worked for Minnesota attorney Kirk C. Thompson in the areas of Social Security, PERA, and long term disability law.  She has been recognized for her exceptional legal research and writing, having earned consecutive Dean’s Awards in the subject and having served as Senior Editor to her school’s flagship law review.  She has also written several successful appellate briefs both at the administrative level and to the federal courts. 

Education

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Certificate in Guardianship, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS
Juris Doctor, 2015

LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
B.M., Music Performance, 2009

Activities & Affiliations

• Washington State Bar Association

• Elder Law Section, Member 

• Real Property, Probate & Trusts Section, Member

• Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Law Section, Member 

• QLaw, Member

• Young Lawyers Section, Member  

• Minnesota State Bar Association 

• Elder Law Section, Member

• Social Security Disability Law Section, Member 

• Young Lawyers Section, Member 

Bar Admissions

• Washington, Minnesota