Our Founder

Biography

Miko’s passion and commitment to empowering women and diverse attorneys has guided her career since she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2001 and entered private practice. As a Japanese Egyptian female, Miko experienced firsthand the challenges that women and attorneys of color face in the legal profession. Those challenges intensified when Miko had her children as an Associate and junior Partner while trying to build a book of business. Miko was the first female associate to have children at her law firm and then make Partner so there was no roadmap guiding her journey.

In 2012, after having her third child, Miko contemplated leaving private practice. The ability to meet billable hour requirements, develop business, be a good mother and spouse, contribute to the community, and stay healthy felt impossible. But thanks to a strong group of mentors and support network, Miko learned how to integrate these facets of her life and career in a gratifying, sustainable manner.

Within three years, Miko developed a seven figure book of business and the nationally acclaimed Women In Leadership Lecture Series (“WILLS”) program, which received the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s George B. Vashon Innovator Award for the category of Women’s Initiatives. Miko also received Corporate Counsel’s National Women in Law Awards in the Innovative Leadership Category for the WILLS program in 2018. Some of Miko’s other recognitions include:

Denver Business Journal Outstanding Women in Business, Award Winner, 2023
Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce, Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business, 2021
Leader in Their Field – Litigation: General Commercial, Chambers USA, 2020
The Best Lawyers in America, Litigation – Insurance; Medical Malpractice – Defendants; Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2020
Top Litigator, Law Week Colorado, 2019
Chambers USA, Minority Female Lawyer of the Year, Finalist, 2018
Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation, Women Lawyers Who Raise the Bar Through Systemic Reform or Innovation, Award Winner, 2017
Colorado Super Lawyers, Top 50 Women, 2016 – 2019
Law Week Colorado, Top Woman Lawyer, 2014

As an in-house attorney, Miko continues to develop innovative strategies for increasing the number of female and diverse outside counsel. Project Ganesha is her latest effort to change the way that law firms approach the retention and development of Associates so they become successful rainmakers and the next generation of Partners.