CLE Seminar Speaker

Christopher Rama Rao

Christopher Rama Rao grew up in suburban Texas, mid-town Manhattan and rural India. He studied magazine journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, and was released for good behavior in 1987.

Christopher, then at a playing weight of 118 pounds, also played rugby for UT-Austin until the laws of physics caught up with him. He graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1992.

Christopher's final Third Year Project in law school was a board game, Survival: The Global Warming Game.

While in law school, he worked for several firms including Heller, Ehrman in San Francisco and Coudert Brothers in New York and Singapore. He was also Teaching Fellow for the Harvard Program on Negotiation, where he taught numerous negotiation simulations.

After law school, Christopher taught business negotiation and web design at the University of Washington and ran a web design firm. After the gold rush, Christopher returned to the law. He was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 1997, and worked two years for a downtown Seattle law firm.

In 1999, Christopher started a solo practice on Beacon Hill, and he and Tom Bao Pierce formed Rao & Pierce, LLC in 2001.

Christopher's law practice emphasizes family law, personal injury, and general civil litigation.

In his spare time, Christopher invents strategy board games that help refine negotiation and business strategy skill sets.