Tara L. Benson

Background

Tara L. Benson was born on November 30, 1971, in Queens, New York, United States. Her later professional career was based in Seattle, Washington, where she practiced law and worked with Perkins Coie.

Education

Benson received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1993. Founded in 1865, Cornell is New York's land-grant university and combines private university education with a public-service mission emphasizing instruction, research, and outreach.

She received a Juris Doctor degree from Duke University in 1996. Duke traces its institutional origins to nineteenth-century North Carolina and became Duke University in 1924; by the time of Benson's legal education, it had developed into a comprehensive university with a professional law school and a broad research mission.

Career

Benson began practicing law after being admitted to the Washington bar in 1996. She worked at Perkins Coie in Seattle, a major Pacific Northwest law firm with practices serving business, governmental, and individual clients and offices extending beyond the region.

Her practice included general civil trial and appellate work in federal and state courts and proceedings before federal and state administrative tribunals. Her documented areas of practice included general litigation and trademark law, as well as administrative, antitrust and trade regulation, aviation, banking, commercial law, bankruptcy, corporate finance and securities, creditors' rights, environmental law, intellectual property, labor and employment, land use, life sciences, mergers and acquisitions, municipal and public finance, natural resources, nonprofit and probate matters, product liability, public utilities, project finance, real estate, school law, taxation, toxic torts, water rights, and white-collar criminal representation.

Membership

Benson was a member of the Washington State Bar Association's Litigation Section. The section represents civil litigators practicing in Washington and supports professional education, mentorship, trial-skills training, and discussion of legislation and court rules affecting civil practice.

• Washington State Bar Association Litigation Section , United States

References

• CS Trademark Registration Record Documents Benson's role as attorney of record for a trademark registration concerning aviation leasing services.
  1999
• BAROQUE Trademark Application Record Documents Benson's role as attorney of record with Perkins Coie for a trademark application filed in 1997.
  1998