1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3200
Seattle, WA 98101
Karin Swope is focused on client success.
As a partner of the firm’s nationally recognized Complex Litigation Group, Karin represents clients in intellectual property litigation and counseling, consumer protection law, ERISA law, antitrust and securities litigation, with a particular emphasis in federal court litigation. Ms. Swope has represented clients for over 20 years in proceedings in state and federal courts across the country, as well as before the USPTO. She has represented companies and sovereign nations in protecting their intellectual property rights. She has helped consumers fight against unfair and deceptive practices, and has helped to change consumer protection law in the process. She has been appointed as co-lead counsel and to steering committees in antitrust and consumer cases, including cases against Apple and Intelius. She has protected the retirement funds of employees whose employers had breached their fiduciary duties in violation of ERISA, in cases against Washington Mutual, State Street Bank and Regions Financial Corporation, among others. She has helped consumers fight against unfair and deceptive practices, and has helped to change consumer protection law in the process. She has also represented shareholders in complex securities litigation.
Following her graduation from Columbia Law School, Karin served as a law clerk to the Honorable John C. Coughenour in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Cowen of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Seattle University School of Law since 2008, and is currently President of the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association.
Adjunct Professor, Seattle University School of Law, Intellectual Property Law
President of the Washington State Bar Association Executive Committee, Intellectual Property Section, (2020-2021); Vice-President (2019-2020), Secretary (2018-2019), Member (2017-2018)
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
American Bar Association, Member, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice and Intellectual Property sections
King County Bar Association, Member, Intellectual Property section
Selected to Rising Stars and Super Lawyers lists in Super Lawyers - Washington, 2016, 2018-2020.
Co-Chair, WSBA CLE, 25th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, A Forum for Innovation in the Continually Evolving Field of Intellectual Property, 2020.
Co-Chair, WSBA CLE, IP and Licensing, 2018, 2019.
Speaker, Federal Court Practice Bootcamp, 2011, 2012.
Speaker, National Employment Lawyers Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA, ERISA Hot Topics, 2008.
Co-Chair and Speaker, WSBA CLE, IP For the Rest of Us, 2007-2009.
Speaker, WSBA CLE, 11th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, The Year in Trademark Law, 2006.
Speaker, King County Bar Association CLE, Electronic Discovery, 2006.
Speaker, WSBA CLE, Hot Trends in Intellectual Property Damages, 2005.
Karin B. Swope, 5K2.0 Departures for 5H Individual Characteristics: A Backdoor out of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, 24 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 135 (1993).
Executive Articles Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 1992-1993.
There is never any cost for an initial consultation with our experienced attorneys.