Kathryn Campbell

Kathryn Campbell advises clients in securities class actions, contract disputes, healthcare litigation, internal investigations, business torts, and product liability claims, as well as criminal and civil matters involving accounting fraud, ransomware attacks, False Claims Act violations, and other fraud-related issues.

Katie has helped obtain favorable results for clients in cases with hundreds of millions of dollars of exposure through vehement discovery strategies and effective dispositive motions. She has successfully appealed, defended, and argued matters with the Illinois Appellate Court. 

Through her extensive pro bono work, Katie has obtained grants of asylum for an individual who fled to the United States after being incarcerated for sexual orientation and for a mother and daughter who fled to the United States to escape gender-based persecution. She has also co-first-chaired three federal jury trials and successfully settled civil rights claims on behalf of incarcerated offenders.

She plays an active leadership role within Perkins Coie as a member of the Associate and Counsel Committee, advocating for the professional interests and development of associates and counsel in the Chicago office. Katie also mentors, manages, and supervises associates firmwide.  

Katie previously clerked for the former Chief Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier of the Illinois Supreme Court.