We’re excited to welcome our 2025 summer associates to the firm and to kick off the season by introducing the first three members of the group. Rosa Wolf, Elena Maltos, and Natalia Brown have each brought fresh perspectives, strong academic backgrounds, and a clear enthusiasm for the law. We’re glad to have them on board and look forward to working with them over the coming weeks. A second post will follow to introduce the rest of our summer associate class once they arrive later this summer.
Rosa Wolf:
For Boise, Idaho native Rosa Wolf, a chance maneuver into a Portland legal assistant job led to almost six years on staff with a trio of firms. The work she observed those attorneys doing persuaded her to pursue a law degree and got her interested in public interest litigation. With the energetic support of her attorney mentors, Rosa entered Lewis & Clark Law School, where she is an upcoming 3L. She arrives at KR as a summer associate and will be working from the Portland office.
Rosa finds a good balance between problem solving and intellectual work in the law, all focused on people and their diverse stories and expressions of need. She observes that “class actions help to fill regulatory voids, where some of these bad actors aren’t otherwise being held accountable.” Her first up-close exposure to class action was as a KR client in the Portland Bullseye Glass matter, which led to her interest in the firm and its impact on important environmental and consumer protection litigation.
While at Lewis & Clark, Rosa has served as a law clerk in the office of the federal public defender, and as a judicial extern in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Rosa’s biggest strength, which she describes as her curiosity, serves her as a budding legal professional and is also a major component of her free-time dedication to backpacking, camping, and exploring new restaurants in Portland.
Elena Maltos:
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Elena Maltos developed an interest in law after exposure to the intricacies of the law/criminal justice system in early childhood. As she was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in criminal justice at Heritage University, she sought out law-adjacent research internships at institutions as UCLA, the University of Virginia, and the Washington State House of Representatives. She also gathered experience as an in-court clerk for the Yakima County Superior Court. Following graduation, Elena worked as a paralegal for a small Seattle firm, handling the full range of litigation tasks and demands which gave her both the experience and reaffirmed her decision to attend law school.
Elena is drawn to consumer protection and class action because it can provide large scale remedies to many people at once, for an ever-expanding range of harms, in ways quite different from the criminal justice system where her sights were first set. One of the oldest of 11 siblings in a close-knit family, she counts resourcefulness and dependability as some of her strongest attributes.
Elena is impressed with the high-value, high-impact cases she has already experienced at Keller Rohrback, and looks forward to further exposure during her summer associate term as a 1L diversity fellowship recipient from Seattle University School of Law. She will work out of the Seattle office, and in her free time will be visiting her family, going on walks with her new puppy, tending her garden, traveling anywhere with friends, and catching as much live music as she can squeeze in.
Natalia Brown:
Natalia Brown, a rising 3L at Harvard Law School, returns to Keller Rohrback as one of our 2025 summer associates. Natalia will be working with the Complex Litigation Group out of the Seattle office. Her background in science, fortified with a magna cum laude B.S. in Ecosystem Science and Policy from the University of Miami, drew her attention toward KR’s team and wildfire litigation in particular. Her extensive experience in environmental justice and climate science, coupled with her strong interest in utility regulation, led her to believe that she and KR would be “a good match.” Her time with KR since suggests her intuition was right.
Natalia was born and raised in South Florida, where she says that growing up in a dynamic coastal town with an agricultural bent, and the socio-economic characteristics that defined it, helped shape her attraction to the law, not least because of the public health implications of climate change and extreme weather. As an undergrad, and during the period between Miami and law school, she was involved with a succession of research projects related to climate and energy justice, managed policy advocacy at the intersections of economic justice at a non-profit organization and helped to lead her family’s business by writing curriculum for an experiential youth science program.
During her second year at Harvard Law, Natalia completed clinical placements addressing procedural justice in utility ratemaking with Earthjustice’s Clean Energy Program, representing combat athletes at Paradigm Sports, and training teachers’ union leadership at charter schools across the country. She is the newly elected Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law and an active member of the Women’s Law Association, Plaintiffs’ Law Association, and the Harvard Latin American Law Review.
Natalia describes her greatest strength as a relentless curiosity—one that her family and friends say has defined her approach to challenging questions and new experiences for as long as she can remember. Natalia observes that as an adult she appreciates that part of her nature because it helps her to adapt and empathize in new environments and communities. She loves the outdoors, particularly by the water, and looks forward to setting out on many Northwest hikes.