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Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP Adds Prominent Civil Litigator Karin Swope to Launch Seattle Office
February 3, 2021 GMT
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BURLINGAME, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 3, 2021
Karin Swope, a nationally recognized civil litigator, is joining Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP. Swope was a Partner for several years at Keller Rohrback in Seattle and will join as a new partner and launch CPM’s new Seattle office.
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Swope is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School, and later served as a law clerk to the Honorable John C. Coughenour in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Following that, she served as a clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Cowen of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. At Keller Rohrback, Swope was a leader on many of the largest, most complex class action ca
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