Davis Wright Lawyer Helps Guy Fieri Create Worker Relief Fund

Davis Wright Tremaine partner Riley Lagesen said the long-term economic impacts of the coronavirus first struck him March 6, when he went to the main restaurant inside the Marriott Renaissance in downtown Seattle for dinner, and found he was the only customer.

Lagesen, chair of Davis Wright Tremaine’s national restaurant industry practice group, a week later texted his longtime client Guy Fieri—the celebrity chef and restaurateur perhaps best known for his Food Network program “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” He told Fieri, “This is crushing lots of great restaurateurs.” He added, “It’s gonna take a team effort get through a ...