Kurt E. Kruckeberg

• Represented a regional healthcare facility restructure its portfolio of off-campus emergency-departments, including negotiating and drafting a complex suite of ground lease, leaseback, purchase-and-sale, and financing documents.
• Represent a community land trust with development, ground leasing, condominium and homeowner association documents, and regulatory compliance matters, including aspects of the HOME Investment Partnerships Program.
• Represent a real estate investment firm with sale, development, leasing, and operational matters relating to its national portfolio of industrial and commercial properties.
• Represent a regional healthcare network in connection with purchases, sales, and medical-office leasing matters, including the purchase of another regional healthcare network and its real estate assets for more than $400,000,000.
• Represent a church client with air-space condominiumization of its real estate asset and sale of an air-space unit for development of a condominium tower.
• Represent charter and private school clients with siting and assemblage, financing, purchase, development, and operational matters.
• Represent a real estate joint venture in connection with acquisitions of commercial office and mixed-use properties in Seattle, Portland, Denver, and Salt Lake City.
• Represent developers in the preparation of condominium and community governance documents for residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects.
• Represent a regional resort community on a variety of development-related matters.
• Represented the seller of more than 50,000 acres of land to the State of Washington to establish Washington’s first community forest.
• Represented landowner in an eastern-Washington conservation project, including assistance with water-rights adjudication and the division and transfer of water rights.
• Pro bono representation through the Washington Lawyers for the Arts of children’s book authors in a dispute with their publisher.
• Part of the firm’s pro bono team representing a same-sex couple in a nationally prominent discrimination lawsuit against a Washington business, Arlene’s Flowers, that refused to provide flowers for the couple’s wedding.

• Moderator, "Meeting the Demand for Behavioral Healthcare in the PNW," Bisnow Pacific Northwest Health Conference, February 2025
• Co-author, “Running Covenants” Chapter 8 Update, Real Property Deskbook, Washington State Bar Association, 2025
• Moderator, "Sustainable and Future-proofed Healthcare Facilities," Bisnow Pacific Northwest Healthcare Conference, October 2024
• Interview, Enhancing the Patient Experience: Advancements and Innovations in Healthcare Facilities, Bisnow, November 2023
• Moderator, “Enhancing the Patient Experience: Advancements and Innovations in Healthcare Facilities,” Bisnow Pacific Northwest Healthcare Conference, October 2023
• Moderator, “Modern Healthcare Facilities: The Role of ASCs, Urgent Care, Ambulatory Care, Pop-Up Facilities, Modular, and the Future of the Industry,” Bisnow Pacific Northwest Healthcare Conference, October 2022
• Kurt is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Washington School of Law, where he teaches Civil Procedure, 2016 - present, and the University of Washington College of Built Environments, where he teaches Real Estate Law, 2023 - present
• Moderator, "Design, Flexibility and Outpatient Facilities," The State of Seattle Healthcare, Bisnow event, October 2021
• Quoted, With Local Law Firms’ Help, Healthcare Organizations Can Focus On Patients, Not Real Estate, Bisnow, May 2021
• Panelist, Understanding Your Legal Rights During COVID-19: Real Estate, Washington Lawyers for the Arts Online Workshop, July 2020
• Author, Ask a Legal Professional, Puget Sound Business Journal (Form 17 Disclosure Statements), September 2018
• Author, Ask a Legal Professional, Puget Sound Business Journal (Property Easements and Licenses), October 2017
• Author, Ask a Legal Professional, Puget Sound Business Journal (Notarizing Amended Lease), August 2016
• Author, Ask a Legal Professional, Puget Sound Business Journal (Warranty of Seisin), March 2015
• "Ethical Considerations in Data Security," 2014 Cyber-Risk Management Program for General Business Lawyers, Seattle University Continuing Legal Education
• "Turn-of-the-Century Disciplinary Notices," NWLawyer, December 2014 - January 2015
• "Moving Forward: An Interview with Seattle University School of Law Dean Annette Clark," NWLawyer, March 2014
• Author, Ask a Legal Professional, Puget Sound Business Journal (Easements), March 2014
• Author, Ask a Legal Professional, Puget Sound Business Journal (Abandoning Commercial Leases), May 2013
• "If You Build It, They Will Sue: Legal Challenges Facing Stadium and Arena Development Projects," 2013 ABA Annual Meeting
• "Mission-Driven Business, the Social Purpose Corporation, and You," De Novo, August 2012 (with Ben Golden)
• "JOBS Act Changes Business as Usual," HCMP Legislative Alert, April 2012
• "Washington Welcomes a New Kind of Business Entity: the Social Purpose Corporation," HCMP Legislative Alert, April 2012
• "Copyright 'Band-Aids' and the Future of Reform," 34 Seattle University Law Review 1545 (2011)

• Washington State Bar Association
• King County Bar Association
• QLaw - The GLBT Bar Association of Washington
• Washington Lawyers for the Arts
• Greater Seattle Business Association

• Recipient, Faculty Excellence in Graduate Education Award, University of Washington School of Law Student Bar Association, 2019 and 2022, and 2024.
• Repeatedly recognized as a "Super Lawyer" by Washington Super Lawyers, most recently for 2024.
• Repeatedly recognized by The Best Lawyers in America^®: Ones to Watch in the field of Real Estate Law, most recently for 2025.
• Winner, Connect Media's 2020 Lawyers in Real Estate Award.
• King County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Mentorship Award Finalist, 2016.
• King County Bar Association President’s Award, 2015.

• J.D., Seattle University School of Law, summa cum laude, 2011
  Editor in Chief, Seattle University Law Review, 2010 - 2011
  Class of 2011 Recipient of the Dean's Medal
  Co-President, Outlaws, 2009 - 2011
  Teaching Assistant for First-Year Property Course
• M.M., University of Colorado-Boulder, Voice Performance and Vocal Pedagogy, 2006
• B.A., Luther College, magna cum laude, Music and Sociology, 2003
  Pi Kappa Lambda
  Regents Scholar
  Weston Noble Scholar

I'm originally from Iowa but now call Seattle home. In my spare time, I enjoy listening to and singing classical music; the occasional hike; and curling up to read a book--I'm currently alternating between biographies of the Chief Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and trashy detective novels.