Overview
Kathy’s career spans more than three decades as a litigator. She has significant experience working with complex litigation matters ranging from employment discrimination and employment benefits disputes, to unfair trade practices. Kathy also is experienced in handling disputes involving intellectual property, restrictive covenant and other agreements, breach of contract and warranty claims. Her clients include individuals, small, mid-sized and large corporations, as well as government entities.
In the last decade there has been exceptional growth in trust and estate litigation. Disputes arise between family members and with institutional trustees or fiduciaries more frequently. She represents individual and corporate personal representatives and trustees in litigation over the interpretation of trust and estate documents, a decedent's distribution elections, allegations of breach of trust and other breaches of fiduciary duty, and intra-beneficiary dispute.
Experience
Membership & Involvement
- Member: The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (AFB); Eastern District of Wisconsin, Court Liaison Committee; Milwaukee Bar Association; Wisconsin Law Foundation Fellows; Lawyers for Libraries, 2013 – 2016; Marquette University Law School Advisory Board
- Faculty Member: National Trial Advocacy College at the University of Virginia School of Law, 2009 - 2018
- Member, Former President: Serjeants’ Inn
- Board Member: Milwaukee County Historical Society
- Board Member: Dorothy Inbusch Foundation
- Former Board Member, Next Act Theatre, 2003 – 2016
Honors
- Martindale-Hubbell – AV Preeminent® Attorney, 2019 Women Leaders in Law
- Notable Women in Law, BizTimes Media: 2022
- Selected to The Best Lawyers in America® in Commercial Litigation: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Selected to The Best Lawyers in America® in Litigation - Labor and Employment: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation: 2017-2021
- Fellow, Wisconsin Law Foundation: 2015-2021
- Selected to the Wisconsin Super Lawyers list: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- Best Lawyers® in America, Women in the Law: 2017
- Martindale-Hubbell - Preeminent Women Lawyers: 2014
- Women in the Law, Wisconsin Law Journal: 2013
- Top 25 Women Attorneys in Wisconsin, Super Lawyers: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021
- Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition: 2008, 2009, 2010
- Super Lawyers Business Edition (formerly Corporate Counsel Edition): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
- Brennan Award, National Trial Advocacy College, University of Virginia School of Law: 2010
Resources & Insights
Alerts
Speaking Engagements
Firm News
- 106 Amundsen Davis Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2024 in America106 Amundsen Davis Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2024 in America
We are extremely excited to congratulate 106 of our attorneys on being recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2024 in America.
- Amundsen Davis Attorneys Included in the 2022 Wisconsin Super Lawyers and Rising Stars ListAmundsen Davis Attorneys Included in the 2022 Wisconsin Super Lawyers and Rising Stars List
Amundsen Davis is pleased to announce the inclusion of 21 attorneys on the 2022 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® and 2022 Wisconsin Rising Stars lists.
- Defending Discrimination Claims Filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Wisconsin Equal Rights DivisionDefending Discrimination Claims Filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Wisconsin Equal Rights Division
Please join us on September 21st for its first installment of the 2022-2023 Breakfast Briefing Series, the theme for the year being Administrative Agency Advocacy.
- Labor and Employment Laws and Regulations in 2022Labor and Employment Laws and Regulations in 2022
Please join us on September 21, 2022 for its first installment of the 2022-2023 Breakfast Briefing Series, the theme for the year being Administrative Agency Advocacy.
Education
Marquette University Law School, J.D., magna cum laude
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, L.S.B.A.
Admissions
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Florida
- Wisconsin