Date/Time
5/22/2025
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Pacific
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Pacific
Event Registration
Event Description
Please register for this joint CLE and lunch seminar:
The Path to Partnership: A Panel Discussion
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When: Thursday, May 22, 2025, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Where: Fisher & Phillips LLP
1700 7th Avenue, Suite 1000
Seattle, WA 98101
In-person only. The CLE will begin at noon, with opportunities for networking both before and after. Please bring your own lunch.
RSVP: through MemberLeap (preferred if you are a MAMA member) or by email to
CLE@mamaseattle.org
Please join us for an in-person CLE/lunch seminar to hear from our panel of three mother attorneys who have successfully navigated the path to partnership in their careers. Panelists Rachel Black, Emily Bushaw, Theresa DeMonte, and Sarah Duran will share their experiences on making partner and offer advice for other mother attorneys considering a similar path.
CLE credit pending.
Rachel Black
Rachel Black is a partner at Susman Godfrey, litigation firm that has been named Vault’s #1 litigation boutique in America every year since rankings began. She specializes in high-stakes commercial litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants at trial and appellate levels nationwide. She joined Susman Godfrey in 2001 after completing federal district court and Ninth Circuit clerkships, and made equity partner in 2005—when her first child was only 10 months old. She co-founded MAMAs the next year. Since then, she has helped secure well over a billion dollars in verdicts and settlements for her clients. She is the mother of 20-year old Zachary and 17-year old Leah, Bernedoodle Baxter, Goldendoodle Rosie, and Ragdoll kitty Abigail.
Emily Bushaw
Emily Bushaw is a partner at Perkins Coie. She represents employers in discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage-and-hour class actions, as well as whistleblower, trade secret, and noncompetition disputes. She provides guidance and training on human resources issues, discipline and discharge, employee handbooks and policies, wage-and-hour law, employee classification issues, and arbitration and separation agreements. She is the mother to six year old, Ivy.
Theresa DeMonte
Theresa DeMonte is a partner at McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren PLLC, where she practices in the litigation and trial group. She represents clients on a range of claims including property and contract disputes, employment issues, alleged breaches of duty, and defamation. She devotes a significant portion of her time to appellate practice. Theresa is also a mother to eight children, ages two through 23, and enjoys sleeping in her spare time.
Sarah Duran
Sarah Duran is a Partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP where she focuses on technology transactions primarily for large international technology companies. Sarah graduated from law school in 2005, clerked for U.S. District Judge Chasanow (Greenbelt, Md) for one year before joining DWT as a first-year associate with a 2-month-old. She started in litigation, handling media and general litigation matters, before switching to transactional work. She worked inhouse at F5 Networks for five years and returned to DWT in 2018. She became a Partner in 2023. Sarah is a proud mother of two boys, ages 18 and 16, is a soccer mom and has two corgis.
MAMA Seattle would also like to thank our
Platinum sponsors:
Foster Garvey PC
Gordon Tilden Thomas & Cordell LLP
Gold sponsors:
BLCP
Buchalter
K&L Gates LLP
Keller Rohrback LLP
McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren PLLC
Ogden Murphy Wallace PLLC
Summit Law Group PLLC
Questions? Contact us at lunchseminars@mamaseattle.org.
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Fisher & Phillips LLP
1700 7th Avenue, Suite 1000
Seattle, WA 98101
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