Stoll Berne Welcomes Carsen Nies

Carsen Nies has joined the law office of Stoll Berne as an associate attorney. Carsen’s practice will focus on complex litigation matters including environmental torts, securities fraud, and class actions.

She was most recently a Judicial Law Clerk with the Oregon Supreme Court, where she worked for the court’s central staff division and clerked for Justice Stephen K. Bushong. There, she provided recommendations to the court and helped draft the court’s decisions involving complex and novel issues of state law. During law school, she also served as a Legislative Extern for the ACLU of Washington, a Certified Law Clerk for the Federal Public Defender’s office in Portland, and an Advocacy Intern for Columbia Legal Services. Her justice-oriented focus and her varied legal experiences throughout Washington and Oregon inform her day-to-day litigation work at Stoll Berne. Carsen received her law degree, cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from the University of Puget Sound. During law school, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice from 2021-2022, a member of the Moot Court Board, and competed in the National Appellate Advocacy Competition in 2022 and the James E. Bond Moot Court in 2021 where she was a semi-finalist.

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