Kathryn B. Walter

Kathryn Walter is an associate in the firm's Litigation Group, Intellectual Property Group, and Labor & Employment Group. Her practice focuses on complex commercial contract and tort litigation. She also has experience with nationwide class actions, employment discrimination litigation, and patent and trademark cases.

Prior to joining Goldberg Kohn, Ms. Walter served as a law clerk to Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and to Judge Richard D. Cudahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ms. Walter spent her first two years after graduation from law school practicing general commercial litigation and intellectual property litigation at a large Chicago law firm. Ms. Walter is admitted to practice in Illinois and is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  She received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2004. She received her B.A., cum laude, with departmental honors, in political science and international studies from Northwestern University in 2001. Ms. Walter was named an Illinois Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine in 2010 and 2011.