Marisa N. Forthun

Marisa is an Associate at Ryan Swanson, working throughout the firm’s various practice groups.

While earning her J.D., Marisa participated in the Tribal Court Public Defense Clinic, where she appeared in court as a Lay Advocate after passing and being admitted to the Tulalip Tribal Bar. Marisa previously interned at the Unemployment Law Project, where she conducted intake interviews with claimants who had been denied Washington State unemployment benefits, represented clients at administrative hearings, and drafted Petitions for Review.

Additionally, she worked as a Hazelton Fellow revising an evidence treatise for Professor Maureen Howard and won Washington Law Review’s Student Essay Competition, later publishing her research on discretionary appointments of counsel for children in Washington State dependency proceedings. Marisa was also the recipient of multiple CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Civil Procedure II, Genetics And The Law, and Criminal Procedure: Adjudication.