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Catherine F. Ries is Of Counsel to the firm. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation and taxation matters. Prior to joining Schiffer Odom Hicks & Johnson, Catherine was an Assistant Attorney General with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office from 1999 to 2007. She spent several years as part of a complex litigation team handling the State of Washington’s defense of class action lawsuits involving the state’s retirement systems. She subsequently joined the AGO’s Revenue and Bankruptcy Division, where she spent six years representing the State of Washington’s taxing agencies (the Department of Revenue, the Department of Labor and Industries, and the Employment Security Department). Catherine advised the agencies on matters of state and federal law and represented the State of Washington in tax-related cases, primarily in federal bankruptcy and district court.

A Seattle-area native, Catherine is currently earning a LLM in taxation at the University of Washington School of Law.