KATHERINE A. ROBERTS
Partner; Co-Chair, Labor, Employment and Immigration Group
Sidley Austin LLP
Kate Roberts has an unusually wide range of recent accomplishments including a complete victory at trial in a major employment wage and hour lawsuit, and her work leading the employment and labor team on numerous major transactions and union negotiations. Her strong record of achievement, combined with her ongoing work defending high-stakes executive disputes and class actions, her leadership of one of the nation’s top employment practices, and her pro bono and philanthropic work make her a strong candidate for this honor.
Roberts served as trial counsel for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in one of very few misclassification cases to go all the way to trial. Working with co-counsel Shook Hardy, the team won a complete defense verdict against nine plaintiffs in a wage/hour action in which Liberty Mutual argued it had correctly classified its adjusters as administratively exempt under California law.
