Redmond, WA
Relevant Law helps Redmond business owners and families with practical business law and estate planning, including formations, contracts, wills, trusts, tax planning, buying and selling businesses, M&A transactions, and business succession.
Businesses, families, and executives
Explore business counsel, family planning, or executive matters with the Redmond practice. Choose the path that fits what you need now.
Families
From a first will or trust to complex estate, family wealth, and ownership transitions. Personalized planning shaped around your family, responsibilities, and goals, coordinating assets, business interests, and future needs. A lawyer can explain the options for wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives.
Explore estate planningBusinesses
For small and mid-sized businesses, owners, and general counsel: formation, contract drafting and review, governance, transactions, and succession. Work with a lawyer on a defined matter, through an ongoing relationship, or alongside an existing in-house legal team.
Explore business counselExecutives
For executives considering an employment agreement, compensation terms, equity arrangements, or a transition. Legal advice can connect contractual decisions with ownership and estate planning, in coordination with your other advisors.
Explore executive counselWhat happens next
Share the question you are working through. The Client Intake Team will help route the inquiry; legal advice begins only after an engagement with a lawyer is established.
Services offered
Serving Redmond, Overlake, Education Hill, Grass Lawn, Bear Creek with comprehensive legal solutions for business and individuals.
About Our Firm
Relevant Law serves Microsoft employees, technology executives, founders, professionals, and families across Redmond, Overlake, Education Hill, Grass Lawn, and Bear Creek from a nearby Bellevue office that is a short drive away. The practice focuses on proactive business law and estate planning — work centered on planning before problems disrupt the business or family.
Redmond clients work with lawyers who handle business formation under the Washington Business Corporation Act and the Washington Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, business and personal tax planning, equity compensation strategy (RSUs, ISOs, ESPP), wills and trusts under RCW Title 11, community property agreements, real estate transactions, and ongoing advisory counsel. Engagements use clear scope and fee discussions so you can budget for legal work as a line item rather than a surprise.
Redmond clients can discuss business and family legal needs with the Client Intake Team at (425) 655-7875. Lawyer advice follows an engagement with the Washington office.
About the Practice
A practical working relationship
Initial contact is with the Client Intake Team. If a local practice and lawyer are the right fit, the engagement and its scope are confirmed before legal advice begins.
Washington Legal Landscape
Washington is one of only a few states that imposes its own estate tax, with exemptions and rates set under RCW 83.100. Estates exceeding the state exemption threshold face graduated rates up to 20%. Our Redmond lawyers help clients structure plans using bypass trusts, qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) trusts, and strategic gifting to minimize Washington estate tax exposure while ensuring comprehensive asset protection.
Washington's Secretary of State oversees business entity filings. The state's robust tech economy and absence of a personal income tax make it attractive for business formation. Our Redmond lawyers guide founders through LLC formation under the Washington Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (RCW 25.15), corporation formation, and compliance with Washington's Business & Occupation (B&O) tax requirements.
Washington has no personal income tax but imposes a Business & Occupation (B&O) tax and a capital gains tax on certain high-value transactions (RCW 82.87). Our Redmond lawyers help clients navigate these obligations while leveraging Washington's favorable tax environment for wealth preservation through trusts, charitable planning, and multi-generational transfer strategies.
This information is provided for general educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. State laws and regulations are subject to change. Consult a lawyer for guidance specific to your situation.
Areas Served
The Redmond team provides M&A, business succession, business law, estate and tax planning, and real estate document counsel to clients throughout Washington. Whether you need a lawyer near Overlake or Education Hill, the team is ready to help.
Redmond is served by Relevant Law's Bellevue regional hub. The lawyer responsible for the matter exercises independent professional judgment.
Bellevue Regional Hub
800 Bellevue Way NE, Unit 500
Bellevue, WA 98004
Monday-Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Featured Insight
Explore planning considerations for businesses and individuals, including legal developments relevant to Washington residents.
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Succession
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Wealth Planning
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Common Questions
Straightforward answers to the questions we hear most from business owners and families exploring their legal options.
Start a conversationThe Client Intake Team can help identify the appropriate local practice for your question. Legal advice begins only after a lawyer engagement is established.
Washington Disclosure
The Supreme Court of Washington does not recognize specialties in the practice of law, and no representation is made that the quality of legal services to be performed is greater than the quality of legal services performed by other lawyers.
Relevant Law offices are independently owned and operated by licensed attorneys.