Seattle1 lawyer
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John-Paul Gustad
✓ Bar verified · Jul 2026
Gustad Law Group, PLLC · Seattle, WA · covers Washington
Disability, VA & injury
No rideshare content found
Credentials
Licensed in Washington
25 yrs
Admitted 21 Jun 2001
Discipline statement
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None given — see below
Background
The firm leads with Social Security Disability and VA claims — personal injury is third on its own list, and rideshare appears nowhere on it. Offices in Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane, though his WSBA address of record is a PO box, so the register alone will not confirm a street office. The firm states it works in Spanish.
WSBA never prints “none” — and warns its search may miss things
Its separate Discipline Notice Directory has not been searched
Whether he has ever run a rideshare case — his site does not mention them
Verification
Washington: Active, eligible to practise, #31255 — WSBA, checked 16 Jul 2026
Professional liability insurance: Yes — WSBA, updated Jan 2026
No disciplinary entries displayed — WSBA
The one register that never says “none”
Every other state we use answers the discipline question out loud. Illinois, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia print “None”. Texas prints “No Public Disciplinary History”. Florida prints “None” for its decade. New York prints “No record of discipline”.
Washington prints nothing. The Disciplinary History section on Gustad’s profile contains no entries and no statement — only a note that in some cases, discipline search results will not reveal all disciplinary action relating to a Washington licensed legal professional.
So what we can report is narrow: no disciplinary entries are displayed, and WSBA warns its search may not display everything. That is not the sentence “this lawyer has no discipline”, and we will not write the second one when the register only supports the first. WSBA keeps a separate Discipline Notice Directory; we have not searched it. His listing is the only one on this site that reads amber rather than green for that reason.
Washington is also the bluntest state on self-reported fields. Above the practice information it states, in capitals, that the information is provided voluntarily and might be incomplete, inaccurate, and/or out of date. Texas says “self-reported”. Washington says it might be wrong.
What we haven’t checked
Not established. The WSBA Discipline Notice Directory, a separate search we have not run — the largest single gap on any listing we publish. Whether he is licensed elsewhere. Whether the practice has a street office; his address of record is a PO box. A bar check is a floor, not a ranking.
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