Carsen is an associate in the firm’s litigation group. In this practice, she is a member of the wildfire litigation team representing victims of the 2020 Oregon fires against PacifiCorp. She is also part of the team that represents the State of Delaware in a PCB litigation lawsuit against Monsanto. Additionally, Carsen focuses on other complex litigation matters including securities fraud and business litigation.
Carsen 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, Carsen 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. Carsen’s justice-oriented focus and her varied legal experiences throughout Washington and Oregon inform her day-to-day litigation work at Stoll Berne.