Taryn joined Serpe Andrews in 2025. Taryn’s practice includes a wide range of high-stakes, complex cases with a large focus on products liability and mass tort litigation. In the past two years, Taryn has assumed a specialized focus on gray market products such as kratom and CBD. Taryn takes pride in her ability to identify, candidly communicate, and resolve difficult issues for her clients.
Taryn has represented an extensive range of clients, including premises owners, landlords, contractors, distributors, suppliers and manufacturers. In that capacity, Taryn has secured numerous dismissals both by stipulation and motions practice.
Notable representative matters include a defense verdict on a 7-figure employment claim; summary judgment in favor of exercise equipment manufacturer facing a 7-figure damages award; summary judgment of asbestos-related claims in favor of supplier defendant; numerous voluntary dismissals of claims following discovery and informal negotiations. Taryn’s trial experience includes second-chairing an employment dispute in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. In her second year of practice, Taryn single-handedly tried a quiet title case to an Oregon judge and secured a judgment in favor of her clients.
Taryn has been consistently selected for leadership roles within the various committees and programs in which she has participated. Most recently, Taryn was one of twenty attorneys nationwide selected for participation in the American Bar Association‘s leadership academy. As a result of her completing the program, Taryn was automatically placed in leadership within the American Bar Association. Taryn chairs the Lawyers in Public Service Committee of the ABA TIPS Section and is the former Vice Chair or Litigation Trial Practice Committee’s Newsletter. Taryn also serves on the Board of Directors for Westside Community Focus, a non-profit organization committed to assisting adults with developmental disabilities. In addition to her committee service, Taryn offers her legal expertise pro bono in civil rights matters, including asylum seekers and Section 1983 claimants.
Taryn graduated from the University of Idaho College of Law in 2016. There, she served as the Director of Social Relations for the Idaho Law Review, was a Legal Research and Writing Teaching Assistant, worked as a Research Assistant for a Constitutional Law professor and a Uniform Commercial Code professor. For several years following her first bar admission, Taryn tutored BARBRI bar students.
Prior to joining Serpe Andrews, Taryn was an attorney at a top-ranked Seattle-based litigation boutique and at an AmLaw 100 law firm, where she litigated high value cases. Before beginning her practice, Taryn clerked for the Honorable John Melanson of the Idaho Court of Appeals. In her free time, Taryn loves live music and anything that gets her outside, though surfing and snowboarding are her favorites!
