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Practice Areas: Domestic, Family Law Languages: Spanish
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Ms. Duke joined the firm as an associate in September of 2010. Ms. Duke’s areas of practice include family law, trusts, estate planning, probate, landlord-tenant, and business. Ms. Duke provides legal services in Spanish as well as English and is a member of Humboldt County and California State Bar Associations.
Before joining the firm, she served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Douglas S. Mitchell of the
Lane County Circuit Court in Eugene, Oregon.
Ms. Duke lived and worked in Humboldt County prior to returning to Oregon for law school in 2005. She is a 2009 graduate from the University of Oregon School of Law where she graduated with a J.D. and an M.A. in International Studies. During law school, Ms. Duke served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Oregon Review of International Law and as Co-Director of the Public Interest Public Service Program. She was a Harry A. Blackmun Fellow with the California Women’s Law Center and was awarded the Hitchcok-Kenna Award for public service in 2009. Her public service includes work with the Lane County Legal Aid and Advocacy Center and the Portia Project providing legal assistance to women in prison.
Education
- University of Oregon School of Law, Juris Doctorate degree (2009)
- University of Oregon, Department of International Studies, Master of Arts degree (2009)
- Thesis Entitled Women on the Line: Strategies of Resistance in the Wake of NAFTA, Global Economic Restructuring, and Transnational Assembly Line Displacement in Mexico
- University of Oregon Clark Honors College, Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, Spanish Literature with Honors, English Literature (2001)
- Study Abroad, Athens, Greece