Isaac Ruiz

Profile

Together with his team at Plaintiff Litigation Group PLLC, Isaac Ruiz represents insurance policyholders, workers, and seriously injured people.

Professional

Selected to the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 Washington Super Lawyers lists.

Rated a "Superb" lawyer by Avvo.

Co-Chair, Seattle Community Police Commission.

Member, Washington State Bar Association, King County Bar Association, American Association for Justice, Washington State Association for Justice (Eagle member), Virginia State Bar (non-active), and QLaw Association.

President, QLaw Foundation board.

Author, The IFCA Book 2019, the definitive guide to Washington's groundbreaking insurance law.

Compiled Legislative History of Washington's Insurance Fair Conduct Act, which makes available (for the first time ever) written transcripts of the House and Senate committee hearings that led to IFCA's passage (2014).

Education

Graduated magna cum laude from Notre Dame Law School in 2000. Graded onto the Notre Dame Law Review. Dean’s List five out of six semesters. Research assistant on an antitrust treatise authored by Prof. Joseph Bauer. Received Arthur Abel award for best student law review article in 1999. Also served on the Journal of College & University Law. Dean’s Award in Business Associations.

Graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. Double-majored in Government and Economics. Interned at Public Citizen. Completed degree in two and a half years.

Graduated from La Feria High School in La Feria, Texas, in 1994. District champion in cross-examination debate three out of four years. Received DAR Good Citizen Award. Attended Boys State. Voted Student of the Year by faculty in junior and senior years.

Personal

Son of Mexican immigrants. Speaks Spanish. Born and raised in La Feria, Texas. Grew up next door to a convent. Volunteered at a soup kitchen for years.

Worked in farm fields alongside family after school and on weekends. Crops included cilantro, green onion, mustard greens, corn, tomatoes, cantaloupes, and watermelons. Summer job was selling watermelons on the side of the highway and in flea markets.

First college graduate in extended family.