About Priscilla
With over 25 years of litigation experience, Priscilla loves helping parties resolve cases.
Priscilla’s approach centers on actively listening to people’s concerns and working hard to resolve conflicts. These ideals have guided Priscilla over her career, where she has mediated hundreds of cases across a wide spectrum of practice areas.
Priscilla started out as a trial attorney at Farmers Insurance, resolving 300-400 cases through arbitration, mediation and trial.
Before being a full-time mediator, Priscilla was an Assistant United States Attorney in Seattle. There, she developed a depth of expertise representing the federal government in personal injury, medical malpractice, employment discrimination, civil rights and immigration litigation.
Priscilla’s close partnership with agencies, counsel and other stakeholders, helped find creative solutions to pressing problems affecting the government on both local and national levels.
Growing up in Tacoma, Washington, Priscilla received her undergraduate degree in Neurobiology from Wellesley College and her J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School in Oregon. After law school, Priscilla moved to the Seattle area, where she has lived for over 25 years.
Active in her community, Priscilla was President of the Asian Bar Association of Washington (“ABAW”) in 2005, working with state and minority bar associations to increase diversity in the legal community.
As a daughter of Chinese immigrants, Priscilla can speak conversational Cantonese. She has mentored hundreds of college students, young adults and lawyers and loves cooking, bingeing Star Trek, enjoying friends and family, and hiking the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
“I hope everyone who mediates with me feels that I heard their deepest concerns and helped them explore every available option to find a fair and reasonable resolution.”
Education
1994: Wellesley College, B.A. Neurobiology, cum laude
1998: Lewis and Clark Law School, J.D.
2019: Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University
2020: Dispute Resolution Center of King County
2021: Orange County Human Relations Dispute Resolution Program
Legal Experience
2005-2020: Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington
2021: Mediator, King County Dispute Resolution Center
2021-2023: Mediator, Orange County Human Relations
2021-present: Mediator, Center for Conflict Resolution (Illinois)
2022-present: Mediator, Mediation Center of the Pacific (Hawaii)
2022-present: Mediator, Riverside County Superior Court Mediation Program (California)
2001-2005: Trial Attorney, Hollenbeck, Lancaster, Miller and Andrews (Farmers Insurance Group)
1999-2001: Law Clerk to Hon. Charles W. Mertel, King County Superior Court
Bar Admissions
Washington State, 1998
United States District Court, Western District of Washington, 2005
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2005
Memberships
Washington State Bar Association
Asian Bar Association of Washington
Board Member (1999-2006), President (2005)American Bar Association (2020-present), Co-chair of Employment Law Committee of Dispute Resolution Section (2020-2023)
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Association of Attorney Mediators (2021-present)
Washington Mediation Association (2022-present)
International Academy of Mediators Mentorship Program (2021-present)