Sarah B. Bowman

Sarah Bowman is a partner and co-practice group coordinator for the firm's global Tax practice and leader of the firm’s Family Office industry group. As a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), Sarah focuses her estate planning and trust administration practice on complex estates with multifaceted legal complexity. She assists clients with estate planning, probate estate and trust administration, family office structuring and management, charitable planning, and resolving estate and trust disputes.

Sarah counsels and represents clients in all aspects of their estate planning needs, including tax planning, wealth transfer strategies, business succession planning, asset protection, charitable giving, and document preparation related to these personal planning matters. Sarah assists principals with the creation and operation of family offices that often involve complex family, trust, philanthropic, and investment structures. She often works with owners of growing businesses to assist with estate, tax and wealth transfer plans, providing for a long-term strategy to effectively meet personal and business planning goals. 

Sarah also represents clients in trust and estate administration matters upon the death of a loved one, including probate and non-probate proceedings as well as estate and trust litigation matters. Sarah counsels beneficiaries of estates and trusts as well as both individual and professional fiduciaries, such as personal representatives and trustees, in estate and trust matters.

Sarah was listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® for Trusts and Estates for 2024. In addition, Chambers USA ranked Sarah in 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023 for Private Wealth Law. She was selected to the Washington Super Lawyers list from 2017-2021, and to the Washington Rising Stars list from 2010-2016. Sarah graduated first in her law school class from Seattle University in 2006.

Sarah is serving on the Washington State Bar Association Real Property Probate and Trust Executive Committee as an elected Probate and Trust Council Member. As a Council Member of the Executive Committee, Sarah represents approximately 2,600 members of the Real Property Probate and Trust section, which is the largest section of the Washington State Bar Association.

Sarah is active in the non-profit community, with a particular passion for supporting research to find better treatments and a cure for rare genetic diseases impacting children. Sarah is Co-Founder and President of the Butterfly Guild of Seattle Children's Hospital, a non-profit that aims to fund research of pediatric bone marrow failure disease like Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome. She is also a member of the Community Board for Seattle Children's Hospital CRMO Program, helping to guide the growth and development of the Program at Seattle Children's dedicated to finding better treatments for children with Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis. She also serves on the Seattle Children's Philanthropic Advisory Council.

Sarah is active in the firm. In addition to her leadership roles with the Tax and Family Office groups, Sarah is Co-Chair of the Seattle office Associate Development Committee, Co-Chair of the Seattle office Professional Development Committee, and a member of the Women in Profession Committee.