Our Team

Marlena advises clients on a wide variety of issues including personal injury claims, workers’ compensation, and healthcare transactions, litigation, and regulatory issues. Prior to attending law school, Marlena worked as a workers’ compensation paralegal for ten years. Daily she watched her clients struggle with the impact of their injuries and the battle with the Department of Labor and Industries, which is really just a state-run insurance agency. She worked hard to procure time loss, vocational training, and pensions for her clients.

Now that she’s an attorney, she has expanded her fight against insurance companies to include auto and health insurance by representing those injured in car crashes or those whose medical insurance companies have denied their treatment.

She advocates for medical providers also. Recognizing that insurance companies treat doctors as poorly as they do patients, Marlena defends providers in payor audits.  She negotiates payor contracts for providers and has negotiated a multi-million-dollar initial contract between a major hospital and major insurer. Working for providers and employers, Marlena reviews employment agreements, addressing issues such as non-competes, Stark compliance, anti-competition, and anti-solicitation. She uses her advocacy skills to benefit her clients in disputes that include network adequacy, and regulatory compliance.

When she’s not tussling with an insurance company, you can find her roaming the greater Seattle area to find new and unique restaurants and shops or shamelessly baby talking to some stranger’s cute dog.