Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in the United States, London and Shanghai, offering sophisticated, high-value legal services both nationally and globally. Our core practice areas include corporate, financial services, litigation, real estate, private credit, intellectual property, and trusts and estates. We serve a diverse clientele, including a third of the Fortune 100 companies, government entities, nonprofits and individuals.
Our flexible and entrepreneurial spirit fosters strong client partnerships and is embedded in our firm culture. We go beyond knowing the law by understanding our clients' business objectives and addressing their legal needs within the broader context. This approach has earned us a reputation as trusted business counsel, and we demonstrate our value every day in the successful results we achieve. Katten values diversity and is consistently recognized for its diversity program, enhancing our ability to serve clients effectively. Our teams bring a variety of talents and perspectives, enriching our overall practice. We are equally dedicated to community service. Through our robust pro bono program, our attorneys and legal professionals commit their time and resources to support underserved individuals and organizations, engage in significant national litigation and partner with local legal service providers to ensure access to justice.
Professional Development
At Katten, we are dedicated to ensuring attorney success through career advising, coaching and learning opportunities. The firm's onboarding, mentoring and coaching programs offer flexible options tailored to meet associates' unique interests and goals. Internal career coaches help attorneys raise their standards of performance and engagement, while Talent Development Partners lead strategic initiatives in each practice group.
Katten offers career advising and coaching to help each unique individual thrive. Our learning opportunities help associates understand their clients' industries and develop legal expertise. The peer coaching and integration activities we facilitate help associates get up to speed quickly in a new environment. Our annual and biannual milestone events such as Junior Associate Academy, Mid-Level Associate Academy, Senior Associate Academy, and New Income Partner Orientation provide our attorneys with opportunities to network and collaborate with peers, learn from our partners and industry experts, and prepare for the next stages of their careers.
Through Katten's formal mentoring program, all first year and lateral associates are paired with a mentor team consisting of a partner and at least one associate. Our Mentoring MeetUp Program provides an opportunity for associates and partners to connect and build meaningful professional relationships. Mentoring MeetUp serve as an opportunity to: (1) connect and check in; (2) receive mentoring on critical skills or practice-specific issues; or (3) discuss short- or long-term career development goals. Our Lateral Associate Learning Circles provide an opportunity to connect with peer attorneys and discuss topics related to integration. Our internal career coaches are leaders on our professional development and diversity teams at Katten. They leverage their experience and coaching certification to help Katten attorneys reach the highest levels of performance and engagement. They work with attorneys one-on-one, helping them to be more effective, successful and balanced in their work.
Well-being
Katten pledged its support to the health and well-being of our business professionals and attorneys by joining the American Bar Association's Well-Being Pledge & Campaign. Katten is also a founding champion of the Institute for Well-Being in Law, an organization dedicated to improving the legal profession by focusing on a holistic approach to well-being.
Katten Well-Being 360: Live Well, Work Well, Be Well, is an initiative to provide continuous support to our attorneys and business professionals across eight areas of wellbeing: emotional, occupational, intellectual, spiritual, physical, social, financial and environmental. We offer a variety of learning tracks related to each dimension of well-being and resources to help our attorneys and business professionals find fulfillment in each of these areas. We also partner with our Employee Assistance Program to offer programming and benefits at no cost to our attorneys and business professionals. Our Global Well-Being Committee and local champions promote the well-being of our attorneys and business professionals. These individuals lead our efforts around programming and serve as advocates to promote our culture of well-being.
We aim to support all aspects of well-being at Katten by providing related programming and education, increasing awareness of benefits and resources, and promoting healthy habits. Additionally, we offer our attorneys and business professionals an annual well-being stipend to support individual well-being.
Diversity & Inclusion
Katten is committed to a culture of belonging where all our colleagues can thrive, contribute, and engage. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are essential pillars of our firm strategy, and our investment in our people is our top priority. Our strength lies in the fact that we are individuals from around the globe, bringing with us varied perspectives, backgrounds, and expertise.
Katten’s Affinity Groups play a vital role in cultivating a culture of belonging at the firm. Through regular meetings, social events and community outreach, Affinity Groups create spaces where members with shared backgrounds or experiences can deepen connections, share insights, celebrate cultural diversity, and promote mutual understanding and respect. Katten’s Affinity Groups include:
Katten is proud to offer educational programs throughout the year, including our Perspective Speaker Series and Dismantling Hate Series, designed to increase cultural awareness, broaden perspectives and inspire dialogue across the firm community. Katten also invests considerable resources to systematically develop the next generation of firm leaders through active sponsorship and professional development support, including through the Kattalyst Sponsorship Program—a 12-month professional development program that provides support to high-achieving attorneys from diverse backgrounds.
Pro Bono
The pro bono opportunities Katten offers attorneys, both litigation and transactional, are many and varied. They include preparing asylum cases and taking them to hearing; drafting organizational and governance documents, and negotiating contracts for nonprofits; handling criminal appeals and drafting amicus briefs; advising clients at legal aid clinics; securing orders of protection for domestic violence survivors; protecting voting rights; litigating on behalf of victims of housing discrimination and hate crimes; representing children in custody and school-related litigation; and conducting research in support of environmental protection and reproductive rights initiatives. The Katten pro bono program has won awards from the American Bar Association, the National Legal Aid & Defenders Association, the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, the National Immigrant Justice Center, the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Public Interest Law Initiative, and many other organizations.
Our attorneys are surveyed annually about their pro bono interests so they can receive pro bono opportunities that match their interests. We recognize outstanding pro bono performance both through firm publications and annual awards that include a charitable donation honorarium.
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