 She served as a law clerk to Judge Harold H. Greene of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1996 to 1997 and to Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1998 to 1999.She is a partner in the Seattle, Washington law firm of Perkins Coie, where she specializes in appellate and commercial litigation.She joined the law firm as an associate in 1997 and was elevated to partner in 2004.