Karin B. Swope - Seattle, WA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 1993
    J.D.
    Honors: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
    Honors: Paul Bernstein Scholarship
    Law Review: Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Executive Articles Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • Amherst College, 1987
    B.A.
    Honors: magna cum laude

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Past Positions

• Judge John C. Coughenour, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Law Clerk, 1993 - 1995
• Judge Robert E. Cowen, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Law Clerk, 1995 - 1996

Classes and Seminars

• Federal Court Practice Bootcamp, 2011
  
• National Employment Lawyers Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA, ERISA Hot Topics, 2008.
  
• WSBA CLE, IP For the Rest of Us, 2007-2009., Co-Chair and Speaker
  
• The Year in Trademark Law, 2006., WSBA CLE, 11th Annual Intellectual Property Institute
  
• King County Bar Association CLE, Electronic Discovery, 2006.
  
• WSBA CLE, Hot Trends in Intellectual Property Damages, 2005.

Representative Cases

• In re Google RTB Privacy Litigation and In re Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Privacy Litigation
• In re Slack Securities Litigation and John Trotter (Ret.), Trustee of the PG&E Fire Victim Trust v. Williams et al

Published Works

Articles

• Karin B. Swope, 5K2.0 Departures: A Backdoor out of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, L. Rev. 135, (1993).
  

Bar Admissions

• Washington, 1994
• U.S. District Court Western District of Washington, 1997
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1997
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 2006
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 2006
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 2007
• U.S. District Court Western District of Tennessee, 2009
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 2010
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2010
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2010
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, 2010
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 2022
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 2015

Other Affiliations

• Seattle University School of Law, Adjunct Professor, Intellectual Property Law
• National Employment Lawyers Association, ERISA Amicus Committee Member and Amicus Brief Writer
• ABA Tort, Trial and Insurance Law Journal, Associate Editor
• Washington State Bar Association (Member)
• King County Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice and Intellectual Property Sections (Member)
• King County Bar Association (Member, Intellectual Property section)

Fraternities and Sororities

• Phi Beta Kappa