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Katie is a trial attorney in the firm's litigation department with experience representing financial institutions, businesses, employers, fiduciaries, municipalities, and individuals. Katie also has extensive experience litigating in federal and state courts, including appellate courts, as well as before administrative agencies and in arbitration forums.

Katie has experience handling various cases, including in the areas of business and commercial litigation, employment litigation, non-compete litigation, real property litigation (contract disputes, zoning issues, and easement disputes), insurance litigation (coverage and third-party liability defense), class action defense, toxic tort and environmental litigation, Article 78 litigation and False Claims Act litigation.

Additionally, Katie’s practice also focuses on trust and estate litigation, where she handles a variety of disputes. In her trust and estate litigation practice, Katie frequently represents fiduciaries (executors, administrators, and trustees), financial institutions (including as corporate trustees), beneficiaries and intestate distributees. Katie has successfully represented clients in various complex trust and estate matters, including will contests, claims against fiduciaries, accounting proceedings, kinship hearings, General Obligations Law proceedings regarding power of attorney issues, Article 81 Guardianship matters, estate and other tax-related issues and more.

Katie’s experience and legal knowledge allows her to strategically achieve her clients’ objectives, whether by minimizing litigation risks or by aggressively protecting her clients’ interests to achieve winning results.

  • Listed in:
    • New York Super Lawyers® Rising Star, Employment and Labor, 2023-2024
  • John N. Bennett Achievement Award, 2020
  • Moot Evidence Award, 2020
  • Editor, Buffalo Law Review, 2020
     

  • Board of Directors, Open Buffalo