Jon Zulauf is a partner of Zulauf & Chambliss. He has been listed in the book Best Lawyers in America every year from 1995 through 2005. Seattle Magazine named him one of the top 5 criminal defense lawyers in Seattle. Washington Law Politics has called him a "Super Lawyer".

Mr. Zulauf is a member of the Washington Bar and several federal bars. He has practiced in the Courts of Washington, Hawaii, California, Nevada, Idaho, Alaska and Florida. He graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1973, then went on to law school at the University of Georgia, graduating in 1976. After a summer internship with the law firm of Cup, Dwyer, Guterson and Grader in 1975, Mr. Zulauf worked as a law clerk for a King County Superior Court Judge. In 1977 he started a five year period of public defender work representing clients on a variety of felony charges including five first-degree murder trials.

In addition to his commitment to practicing criminal defense, Mr. Zulauf has been the President of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the chairmen of the Federal Bar Committee, and a frequent lecturer at CLE seminars. Mr. Zulauf contributed his time to the Innocence Project and successfully reversed a conviction in which his client was falsely accused of committing hundreds of acts of child molestation in Wenatchee, Washington. He was an invited lecturer at the Washington State Judicial Conference on the topic of diminished capacity.

During the past twenty years Mr. Zulauf has built a successful white-collar criminal defense practice. He has represented a lawyer charged with racketeering, another lawyer charged with securities violations, a doctor accused of Medicare fraud, and corporations charged with Environmental Protection Agency violations, Food and Drug Administration violations and Internal Revenue Service violations. His clients include corporations in the pay day loan industry and the mortgage loan industry each accused of violations of law by the Department of Financial Institutions.  He appeared for a client at the NTSB investigation of the Alaskan Airlines crash, helped clients with Grand Jury testimony regarding the Olympic Pipeline rupture in Bellingham, and represented several doctors in the University of Washington Physicians Medicare investigation.

"Among his notable clients are Seattle Seahawk football players, Seattle Sonic basketball players, and celebrity, Courtney Love."

Jennifer Smith is "Of counsel" to the firm, sharing office space and assisting with investigation, research and court appearances.  She received her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 2000.  Following graduation she was a staff attorney for the San Francisco Public Defenders Office for three years.  In 2004 after moving to Seattle she joined The Defender Association working primarily on domestic violence cases.