Caroline Fichter

I know my husband talks in his sleep. Still didn’t help when we staying in a straw roof cabin in Nicaragua (12 deadly snake species!) and he woke me up by shaking me and telling me “be still-there’s a snake on the bed.”

Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. buff.ly/9bDfEKZ #ShareGoodNewsToo

Those poor kids are missing out on a hell of a story. My franchise law group did a franchise trivia game and there was a whole category devoted just to that man’s adventures.

Washington has been 100% vote by mail since 2011. I haven't voted in person since 2000. All of our ballots have individual tracking numbers and we get to watch them go through the whole process. It is the best voting system in the US.

Wholesome summer fun

I work in franchising and every other fast food brand is getting haaammmerrred. But Taco Bells are still highly desirable and very valuable.

This is true for law journals too! Ask for my article, I’ll send it to and clear time to answer any questions. I love to talk about franchising.

The is a great start for a second chance romance…..

I resemble this comment…..

Lawyer: I gotta put him on the stand. He's got a tight five and can do crowd work, he'll kill. I mean hopefully not again, but we'll just have to take that risk

The Portland airport is truly the cleanest, most beautiful airport I’ve ever seen.

BRB-just adding these types of conversations with LLMs to some discovery requests.

One of the most stunning drives on the West Coast exists because Sam Hill thought it should. Then he built a lovely museum and filled it with the things he loved-the Romanian Crown Jewels, Rodan, and French fashion dolls. If you must be rich at least be like Sam Hill..

My friend was a summer associate at a big firm. Her first week she went to a boat party. I was at the prosecutor’s office-I got to handle my own pre-trial calendar and went on a jail tour.

Judge Orders Everyone to Know This Piece of Shit from Covington, Not Seattle: tinyurl.com/ysfbw6vh

This is my gym. Guess I picked a good day to skip.

Johnny and Loretta would NEVER

This means my 9th grader has been closer to a shooting than anyone at that dinner. Twice. Before he was 15.

I have two teen boys. I KNOW they talk to their Aunties (blood and otherwise) about all sorts of stuff they can’t talk about to me! One boy is even doing a job shadow with one of them this summer. Bless the aunties and uncles!

I fell into this trap with first class flights. So many instagram videos of people flying to Europe tier class!

Mine is presenting on an ABA panel with two other lady litigators. We all handle multi-million dollar “bet the company” cases. #ladylawyerdiaries

Can’t wait to read this book!

After 16 years at my own firm, today is my first day of work at West Coast Franchise Law!!!

Great mediation in followed by a great evening in!

I’d leave private practice to serve on a task force like that in a heartbeat. A huge part of why I left prosecution was I was tired (spiritually) of putting poor people in jail but white collar defendants would be living the dream.

I was this idiot. A quick course of rabies shots taught me!

After a long morning of document review, I took my paralegal (pawalegal?) out to lunch.

I love my work. I’m helping with a conference and both my panels are all kickass lady lawyers! It’s great to be surrounded by so many female leaders.

So we agree that if "Sinners" doesn't win all the Oscars, we burn this mother to the ground, right?

First time (and only time) I had a weed brownie I tried to befriend a raccoon and cried because the moon was so beautiful. Alaska weed is not messing around.

This should be the first 70 degree sunny day in Seattle—-by law!

Franchise law is a TINY world. I planned a conference with my franchisor equivalent. We’re OC on at least a case any given time. He’s a delight. It’s a shame he’s wrong on literally every point of law but he’d say the same about me. This is the way it should be.

I once accidentally joined a Christian cult but quit when my discipler told me that quoting Shakespeare was leading guys in my bible study to sin.

I’d be upset about an affair but I’d be FURIOUS if my husband was responsible for me having another thing to track in the calendar…

More like this, please.

I call my dad in tears from the law library. I had to take notes, re-read cases and sometimes I STILL didn’t understand. Clearly I had a brain tumor. He gently told me what I was doing was called “studying” and I just had never done it before.

Very proud of my Senator. @cantwell.senate.gov what will you do?

I’ve got two text threads going right now. One is organizing donations/volunteers for a HS band fundraiser. The other is organizing carpools for Ice out for Good. Same group of moms.

Best part of the liminal time between Christmas and New Year is I have an excuse to put out the “snack ham” in the morning and a cheese plate in the afternoon.

Rick Steves continues to be the best of us.

I’ve got Mother’s Day sorted! Mimosa and this movie.

How do I know there was no woman in room when this phase was coined? Strong floor sounds like encouragement to do kegels.

My Sagittarius son just told me, “I’ll burn that bridge when I get to it.” I almost corrected him but realized that phrase is exactly right for him.

Love my congresswoman!

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

My long nails mean I frequently type “Bet” instead of “Best” in my emails. I usually catch it but if I don’t it really changes the tone of my emails to opposing counsel.

I tell my dog we are going to visit “Auntie Prash” when we go to my friend’s coffee shop. I do not literally believe Prash is Pickle’s mom’s sister. There is no family resemblance.

Yes! I sent my boys through the O.W.L. Program at our UU church when they were 5 and 6. My 6 year old was baffled and asked me to confirm if the things he was learning were true so we had the Sex Talk on the back of a city bus . I still talk about with them regularly now that they are teens.

I paid $3000 a month in childcare when my boys were in Kindergarten and pre-k. My husband I both have solid jobs but daycare used up most of my paycheck. Harrell’s text ENRAGED me.

Whenever I’ve got the evening to myself, I check Saeed’s timeline to figure out what to watch. I think I’m going to skip this one.