Susan M. Johnson
Practice Emphasis
BAR ADMISSIONS
Washington, 1995
______________________________________________________________________Susan manages Graham & Dunn’s Alcoholic Beverage Practice. She counsels beer, wine, and spirits producers, retail store, restaurant, and hotel chains, sports and entertainment facilities, cruise ship lines and contract food service management companies on liquor licensing, sales, distribution, advertising, administrative violation defense, and regulatory matters related to changes in corporate ownership and governance. With broad experience in business counseling, litigation, and alcoholic beverage regulation, Susan works directly with industry associations, in-house counsel and other law firms on complex transactions, litigation consultation, and legislative initiatives involving alcoholic beverage issues.
Susan also coordinates full spectrum legal services for her hospitality and beverage industry clients including real estate, franchise, publicly traded company compliance, litigation, trademark registration and protection, employment counseling, financing, and transactional representation for expansions, acquisitions and divestitures.
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Washington State Bar Association
Member, King County Bar Association
Associate Member, National Conference of State Liquor Administrators
Associate Member, National Association of Alcohol Beverage Administrators
Associate Member, Washington Restaurant Association
Associate Member, Washington Brewers Guild
Allied Member, Washington State Hotel and Lodging Association
Allied Member, Brewers Association
Director, Washington Wine Industry Foundation
Presenter, Bonding Processes and Strategies, Winery and Wine Distribution Law Conference (Quincy, WA, August 2007)
Member, Washington State Liquor Control Board Tied House Review Team (2007-2008)
Author, From Bacchus to Our House: taxation of the Oregon Wine Industry Under Current Twenty-first Amendment and Commerce Clause Jurisprudence, 73 Or. L. Rev. 711 (1994)
recognition
Washington State Hotel & Lodging Association, "Member of the Year" award - 2007
EDUCATION
J.D., University of Oregon School of Law, 1995
B.A., Evergreen State College, 1985
