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Practice Areas
- Agricultural Law
- Health Care Law
- Securities Law
- Real Estate Law
- Patents
- Maritime Law
- International Law
- Intellectual Property
- Immigration Law
- Estate Planning
- Antitrust Law
- Environmental Law
- Entertainment & Sports Law
- Energy, Oil & Gas Law
- Employment Law
- Education Law
- Construction Law
- Communications & Internet Law
- Appeals & Appellate
- Tax Law
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
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- Washington
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Professional Experience
- Partner
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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Education
- Yale Law School
- J.D
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- Yale University Graduate School
- M.A. in American History
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- Carleton College
- B.A. in History, magna cum laude, with distinction, Northfield, Minnesota
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Professional Associations
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- Activities: Member, American Judicature Society, Washington Chapter (2001-present)
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- Activities: Vanguard Award, presented by Washington Women Lawyers (2000)
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- Activities: As trial judge: In King County Bar Association’s 2004 poll, became the only judge ever to have received the highest percentage of “excellent” rankings in every one of the five categories rated
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- Activities: Other Professional Committees and Activities
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- Activities: Elected member, American Law Institute (1999-present)
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- Activities: Master and Founding Member, Inns of Court, Seattle Chapter, (2002-present), President (2003-04)
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- Activities: Board of Directors, King County Bar Foundation (2001-04)
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- Activities: Member, Superior Court Judges’ Association (1990-2005)
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- Activities: Supreme Court, State of Washington, Duplicate Rules Committee (1997-2000)
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- Activities: United States Supreme Court
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- Activities: Member, United States Supreme Court Historical Society (1986-present)
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- Activities: Member, Ninth Circuit Historical Society (1987-present)
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- Activities: Board member, Washington State Courts Historical Society (2001-present)
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- Activities: Community Activities and Other Work Experience
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- Activities: Member, Honorary Advisory Committee, Peace Corps Master’s Degree Program at Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington (2000-present)
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- Activities: Member, Friends of Sierra Leone: aid to alleviate the effects of a long civil war (1995-present)
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- Activities: Diversity Committee, The Lakeside School, Seattle, Washington (1992-95)
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- Activities: Judge of the Year, presented by the Washington State Trial Lawyers’ Association (2001)
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- Activities: Professional Bar Memberships
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- Activities: Western and Eastern Districts of Washington
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- Activities: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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- Activities: Washington State Bar Association
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- Activities: District of Columbia Bar
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- Activities: King County Bar Association
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- Activities: Federal Bar Association
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- Activities: American Bar Association
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- Activities: Honors/Rankings
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- Activities: Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Appellate Law and in Alternative Dispute Resolution by Woodward/White
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- Activities: Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics (2006-2008)
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- Activities: Selected to 'Top 100 Washington Super Lawyers,' Washington Law & Politics, 2008
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- Activities: Outstanding Judge, presented by the King County Bar Association (2002)
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- Activities: Distinguished Achievement Award, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. (2002)
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- Activities: Judge of the Year, presented by the Washington Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (2000)
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- Washington State Bar
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