Katharine provides clients with thoughtful risk management counsel and sophisticated representation throughout the litigation process. Katharine focuses her practice on product liability, toxic tort, and environmental litigation, and personal injury and wrongful death claims. She also has experience in general commercial litigation and consumer class action defense, and has provided employment counsel to clients in the context of workplace risk and incident response. Katharine represents a broad spectrum of corporate clients in both state and federal courts.

In addition to representing clients in products and premises liability litigation involving allegations of toxic exposure, Katharine provides pre-litigation counsel to manufacturers and employers on legal risks relating to both established and novel environmental and workplace exposure issues (e.g., asbestos, benzene, combustible/inhalable dusts, PFAS, and SARS-CoV-2). She has also led both plaintiff- and defense-side briefing efforts in state and federal actions involving commercial contracts and consumer product claims.

While at William & Mary Law School, Katharine was selected as a Legal Writing & Practice Fellow and was awarded the Gambrell Professionalism Award and Thomas Jefferson Prize for best student note at graduation.

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Education
JD, William & Mary Law School, Executive Articles Editor, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2015

BA, English, Princeton University, 2009

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