Ms. Williams is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Seattle where she is co-chair of the HIT/HIPAA Practice Group. Ms. Williams graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a B.S. in nursing and received her J.D. from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law where she was the editor of Women's Law Reporter. Ms. Williams wishes to thank Davis Wright Tremaine and the DWT HIT/HIPAA Practice Group for the use of material from Davis Wright Tremaine advisories and alerts (which can be found at http://www.dwt.com).