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EXPERIENCE

Katherine is widely considered among the nation鈥檚 foremost advisors on legal issues relating to technology, including artificial intelligence, the digital environment, high-speed trading and content distribution, big data, and intellectual property.聽 Katherine has led sensitive, high-profile investigations involving the DOJ, FTC and other U.S. and foreign regulators, and complex, high-stakes litigation spanning numerous substantive areas including artificial intelligence, Web3 and digital assets.聽

Katherine was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2011 as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, serving seven years on the bench and presiding over several thousand criminal and civil cases.聽 During her tenure on the bench, Katherine served as a member of the Judicial Patent Task Force for the Southern District of New York and presided over several dozen patent cases.

INDUSTRY AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Katherine has been recognized as a leading lawyer in technology and artificial intelligence by numerous industry publications. Most recently, Chambers Global 2025 named her a "Global Market Leader" in artificial intelligence, and Lawdragon included her among their 2025 "500 Leading Global Entertainment, Sports & Media Lawyers鈥�. The New York Law Journal announced that Katherine was a 2023 individual Innovation Award winner for her work in AI, and the Financial Times shortlisted her as a 2023 Innovative Practitioner finalist. She has received Benchmark Litigation's Hall of Fame Award and has been named to the publication's "Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America" list and "Top 250 Women in Litigation" list. In 2023, she was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America as a leading lawyer in IP and Antitrust law, and in 2022 was named Best Lawyers' New York City "Lawyer of the Year" for Antitrust law. In 2019, she was included in Crain's New York Business's list of "Notable Women in Law." The American Lawyer recognized Katherine as one of 10 district court judges to watch, and Law360 named her one of the 10 most influential recently appointed judges. She has also received additional recognitions from The American Lawyer, Chambers USA, Global Competition Review, IP Law & Business, Lawdragon and The Legal 500 US.

Katherine also maintains an active pro bono practice, where she was recently recognized with the Jewish Children鈥檚 Museum鈥檚 Ari Halberstam Memorial Award. Katherine was part of the team that brought the first lawsuit against the gun manufacturers that made the gun used in the 1994 attack on Brooklyn Bridge that killed 16-year old Ari Halberstam, to whom the museum is dedicated.

WRITING/SPEAKING

Katherine is a frequent speaker and published author in the areas of intellectual property, artificial intelligence in the practice of law, and algorithmic bias. Katherine has authored two books entitled When Machines Can be Judge, Jury and Executioner: Justice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (on algorithmic bias) and Is Justice Real When 鈥淩eality鈥� is Not: The Construction of Ethical Systems in Virtual Worlds. She has appeared on the PBS show, NOVA, on algorithmic bias and artificial intelligence; and she authored the 鈥淎rtificial Intelligence鈥� treatise chapters for Business & Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (Fifth Edition) and Business & Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (Fifth Edition), as well as a chapter on emerging issues in copyright law and artificial intelligence in The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines. She is also a regular technology columnist for the New York Law Journal, with a recent article 鈥淐utting Through the Mess: What Does AI Really Mean for Lawyers?鈥� and in 2020 earned a distinguished legal writing award from The Burton Awards for her article 鈥淭he Holographic Judge.鈥�

As she is a frequent speaker, Katherine has had numerous keynote addresses at events hosted by the American Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the National Judicial College, the New York State Judicial Institute, The Future Society and UNESCO, among others, on topics related to artificial intelligence and the metaverse. She was a panelist on 鈥淭he Path Towards an Enforceable EU AI Act,鈥� at The Athens Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law and 鈥淐hoosing Wisely: The Challenge of Interim Measures in International Arbitration,鈥� at New York Arbitration Week. She has spoken numerous times on behalf of the National Judicial College, given keynote speeches on these issues before all of the New York State judges and trained judges on these issues internationally, including 鈥淭he Transforming Role of Judicial Operators in Upholding the Rule of Law in the Age of AI,鈥� at UNESCO and SMART Africa鈥檚 Virtual Inter-regional Training Program. She has been an adjunct professor of law at NYU School of Law for eight years where she co-teaches a course on Quantitative Methods and the Law.

BOARDS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Katherine is active in numerous charitable and professional organizations. Among others, she is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABA), a member of the ABA Taskforce on Law and Artificial Intelligence, co-chair of the New Jersey Court Systems AI Initiative and currently serves on the board of trustees of Choate Rosemary Hall, a boarding school.