KATHERINE SMITH
Partner; Co-Chair, Labor and Employment
Practice Group
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Aco-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, Katherine Smith has extensive experience representing employers in individual, representative and class action litigation at both the trial court and appellate level. In addition to her busy litigation practice, Smith is in demand by clients needing guidance with respect to nearly all aspects of employment law, including government investigations, enforcement of non-solicitation and non-competition covenants, and independent contractor/common law employee status.
Among Smith’s recent achievements has been her work representing Riot Games in a putative class and PAGA action; and successfully compelling a plaintiff’s individual PAGA claim against Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC to arbitration and obtaining dismissal of the representative claim following the Supreme Court’s precedent-setting Viking River decision.
