SEATTLE (May 21, 2015) – Katie O’Sullivan, partner and co-chair of Perkins Coie’s Appellate practice, has been elected to the Council of The American Law Institute (ALI).

The ALI is governed by its Council, a volunteer board of directors that oversees the management of ALI’s business and affairs. The Council consists of lawyers, judges, and academics, and reflects a broad range of specialties and experiences. Council members are elected from the ALI membership for terms of five years.

Katie represents clients in a wide range of complex litigation in trial and appellate courts across the country. Her practice involves diverse industries, including aviation, banking, biotechnology, food, manufacturing, retail, software and telecommunications. Katie has also dedicated significant amounts of time to pro bono matters, working to ensure access to justice for low-income litigants. She has served on the Washington State Bar Association Board of Governors and is a former Chair of the Washington Commission on Judicial Conduct. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from Yale University.

Katie’s election to the Council of ALI follows on the heels of three Perkins Coie partners—T. Markus Funk, Michelle Umberger and Steve Koh—becoming ALI members in April. Other Perkins Coie members who are members of ALI include: Dave Burman, Tim Burns, Kevin Hamilton, Stewart Landefeld, Marty Lybecker, Lorie Masters, Katie O’Sullivan, and James Williams.

The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. The Institute (comprised of more than 4,400 attorneys, judges and law professors of the highest qualifications) drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles of law that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education. By participating in the Institute's work, its distinguished members have the opportunity to influence the development of the law in both existing and emerging areas and to work with other eminent lawyers, judges, and academics.

Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high-value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,200 lawyers in offices across the United States and Asia, we provide a full array of corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property, and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, including many of the world’s most innovative companies and industry leaders as well as public and not-for-profit organizations.

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