Introduction and Biography
Harish Bharti believes that justice delayed is justice denied and that speedy action is essential. Mr. Bharti is a trial lawyer who has tried many high-profile cases.
He has also taught trial techniques to lawyers at Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyer's College. Mr. Bharti is representing several Afro-American engineers in their discrimination class-action lawsuit against the Boeing Company. He also prosecuted a discrimination class-action lawsuit against the Boeing Company on behalf of several thousand Asian American professional engineers earlier, which is under appeal.
Mr. Bharti successfully prosecuted and settled for $12 million a class action lawsuit against McDonald's on behalf of vegetarians and Hindus. McDonald's also issued a public apology for false advertising, as well as a disclosure of their ingredients list.
Mr. Bharti has also successfully settled class action cases involving Jenny Craig, Diamond Parking, Drico Recovery Services, and Ticket Track, Inc.
Practice
He began his private practice representing battered women, conducting self-defense murder trials, and pursuing sexual harassment cases. On behalf of injured seamen, he prosecuted Jones-Act litigation. He was the defense attorney in the landmark case State v. Hendrickson, which developed the case law on Battered Woman Syndrome in support of self-defense. (His criminal defense work is now limited.) He is the former President of the Northwest Battered Women Legal Defense Coalition.