Portia Moore focuses on complex litigation, emphasizing defense against wrongful termination and race and sex discrimination claims. She regularly tries cases to successful conclusion for her clients and has served as lead counsel in numerous employment discrimination cases including charges of sexual harassment and retaliation.
Portia’s experience also includes the successful defense of major product liability claims. With an undergraduate degree in nursing, Portia has a special and unique knowledge of the health care arena.
As a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, Portia presented criminal indictments to federal grand juries, conducted jury and bench trials and presented oral arguments before the 9th Circuit. She successfully litigated jury trial cases involving charges of money laundering, mail fraud, tax violations, continuing criminal enterprise (CCE), racketeering (RICO) and national security issues.
Throughout her career, Portia has held progressively senior positions in private practice and government service. She was a Shareholder at Lane Powell PC in Seattle from 2007 to 2010, a Partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco from 1990 to 2007, and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in Seattle from 1986 to 1990.
Portia is actively involved in her professional and local community. She serves on the Board of Directors of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Puget Sound, is a faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy Western Regional Program, and is a member of the DirectWomen Board Institute, the King County Bar Foundation, the American Bar Association Committee on Diversity, and the Loren Miller Bar Association. She has also served as an Instructor at The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle’s Children’s Summer University and as an Investigative Hearing Officer for the Office of Citizen Complaints in San Francisco. Portia received the Women Pioneer Award from the Loren Miller Bar Association in 2011 and holds an AV rating from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.