Decoupling is a service of Beacon Attorneys, PLLC, a four-attorney litigation firm in South Seattle with a focus on family law.  We also do personal injury, real estate, and general civil litigation on a limited basis  The firm has three partners, Christopher Rao, Katy Banahan, and Javier Ortiz,  one associate attorney,  Cameron Martin, and our legal assistant, Cooper Smith.

Christopher Rama Rao

Decoupling is published by Beacon Attorneys’ managing partner Christopher 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 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 was a Teaching Fellow for the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

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, first working for a downtown firm, then starting his own firm on Beacon Hill in 1999.

Christopher and his wife Josie dote shamelessly over their two teenage boys, Raja and Tristan.  In his spare time, Christopher invents games such as Pink Godzilla Dev Kit and North Pole: A Penguin Adventure. Christopher also co-founded the software firm, Law Fortress LLC.