She is Aide to the President of Russia and head of the Presidential State-Legal Directorate.

1985–1987: Research assistant at the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

1992–1993: Head specialist of the Legislation Committee of the Supreme Soviet of Russia; sector head of the Commission of the Republic Council on economic reform of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation.

In 1999, she was appointed Head of the Main State Legal Department of the President of the Russian Federation.

In March 2004, she was appointed Aide to the President, and Head of the State Legal Directorate in the Presidential Executive Office.