Biography
Katherine's recent experience includes serving on Weil teams representing:
- Private equity firms and their portfolio companies in connection with executive compensation, employment, and workforce-related issues arising in strategic transactions and acquisitions;
- Public and private companies in matters involving executive separations, restrictive covenant disputes, and employment law advice;
- Corporate clients in workplace investigations and sensitive personnel matters; and
- Companies navigating employment issues in restructuring, bankruptcy, and other complex business transactions.
Katherine also maintains a robust pro bono practice, including with nonprofit organizations such as the Central Park Conservancy, Libraries Without Borders, the Lang Lang Foundation, and Women for Afghan Women.
Katherine received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University at Buffalo School of Law, where she served as President of the Buffalo Moot Court Board and Publication Editor of the Buffalo Human Rights Law Review. She was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers and received the Max Koren Award and the Judge Matthew J. Jasen Appellate Practice Award. During law school, Katherine served as a judicial intern to Judge Julio Fuentes (Ret.) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and a judicial extern to Judge Lynn Keane of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Fourth Department. She earned an M.A. and a B.S. in Psychology from the University at Buffalo.