Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice is pleased to announce the addition of two attorneys in the firm’s Seattle office. Kerry Keefe joins the firm as senior counsel and Kalina Spasovska as an associate. 

Keefe brings more than three decades of high-stakes litigation and public-sector leadership experience to a practice focused on civil litigation, constitutional and tort matters, civil rights enforcement and complex government investigations. She has tried more than 80 criminal and civil cases to verdict.

Keefe’s public-sector leadership experience includes senior roles with the Seattle Police Department, the Office of the Mayor of Seattle, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. As Civil Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington, she led a division handling Federal Tort Claims Act matters, False Claims Act and whistleblower actions, civil rights enforcement, employment and immigration matters and litigation involving tribal treaty rights.

Keefe earned her law degree from Seattle University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. She is licensed to practice in Washington.

Spasovska is a civil defense litigator who focuses her practice on defense work for local government entities and clients facing personal injury and premises liability claims. During law school, Kalina served as a legal intern and extern with the Seattle City Attorney’s Office, where she assisted with civil and criminal matters and gained courtroom experience.

Spasovska earned her law degree cum laude from the Seattle University School of Law, an M.A. from the University of Roehampton London, University of Gothenburg, University of Tromsø and her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington. She is licensed to practice in Washington.