Patrice Johnston Law Office of Patrice M. Johnston PLLC, Seattle PATRICE MCCAUSLAND JOHNSTON received her B.A. degree from theUniversity of Puget Sound in 1980 and her J.D. from the University of Washington in 1983, where she served as Executive Notes and Comments editor of the Washington Law Review. She worked as a legislative assistant for U. S. Senator Slade Gorton for several years, did commercial litigation downtown through the mid-1990s, and then opened her own law office in the Wedgwood area in 2000, where her practice emphasizes family law in King and Snohomish counties.[May 2012]