Immediately prior to joining Gilbert LLP, Kathleen was a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. From 2006-2008, Kathleen was a litigator with an Arizona firm. Kathleen represented clients in personal injury, wrongful death, and products-liability cases in both federal and state courts. She also served as appellate counsel for clients and other attorneys in various types of cases. Prior to entering private practice, Kathleen served as a law clerk to the Honorable William C. Canby on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Neil V. Wake on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

As an associate at Gilbert LLP, Kathleen's practice focuses on complex litigation.  Representative matters include:

• Representing a company who was the only designer and producer in the world of certain industrial products against corporations based in Dubai and China for misappropriation of trade secrets, copyright and trademark infringement
• Representing a class of plaintiffs against an insurance company for breach of the terms of life insurance policies, among other claims
  

Publications

• Corporate Law and Stakeholders: Moving Beyond Stakeholder Statutes, Arizona Law Review, Fall 2003
• Case Note: Walk v. Ring, Arizona Law Review, Spring 2003
• Toyota v. Williams: Further Constricting the Circle of Difference, Wayne State Journal of Law in Society, Winter 2003
• Co-Author, The Struggle for the Self in Environmental Law The Conservation Between Economists and Environmentalists, UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Fall 2000
• Co-Author, Raped at Work, Just Another Slip, Twist and Fall Case?, UCLA Women's Law Journal, Fall 2000

• Member and former Co-Chair, Arizona State Bar Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law
• American Constitution Society
• Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for two children in foster care
• Pima County Juvenile Court volunteer facilitator
• Lawyers for Literacy Volunteer