Prior to joining the firm as an associate April served as a senior paralegal, and provided substantive support for lawyers in the Corporate practice area and Mergers and Acquisitions practice group and drafted legal audit letters for corporate clients. April was also previously a senior paralegal a law firm in Portland, where she drafted corporate documents for entity formations, dissolutions, mergers, and other transactions as well as managed intricacies of the intersection of tax, corporate, and estate planning law.