Adele believes the civil justice system can level the playing field between consumers and corporations.

As a partner in our nationally recognized Complex Litigation Group, Adele has participated in significant victories and settlements in class actions and multidistrict litigations. She has made key contributions to several automotive-defect class actions; a class action against Facebook for user privacy violations; the City of Seattle’s lawsuit against Monsanto for environmental contamination; and a class action against an insurance company over annuity factoring, among other cases. Her pro bono practice focuses on amici briefing for Washington nonprofits.

Before joining KR in 2019, Adele graduated magna cum laude from University of Michigan Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor for the Michigan Law Review. Adele clerked for Chief Judge Michael Mosman at the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon and Judge Ronald Gould at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In her spare time, Adele heads to Washington’s mountains for camping and whitewater kayaking.