Marli graduated from Tulane Law School in 2009, where she served as Senior Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. Upon graduation, she became a term law clerk for the Honorable Martin L.C. Feldman of the Eastern District of Louisiana. For the next four years, she practiced at Adams and Reese LLP in New Orleans, Louisiana, primarily in commercial litigation and transactions. She then went in house with PosiGen Solar Solutions, where she worked on transactional and corporate matters and managed outside litigation counsel. Since 2016, she has been Career Law Clerk for Magistrate Judge Janis van Meerveld in the Eastern District of Louisiana. Much of her work in that role involves discovery matters. Marli is a member of the Sedona Conference WG1 Brainstorming Group and Drafting Team for Improving the Privilege Log Process.