KATHERINE FORSTER
Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
A seasoned employment practitioner, Katherine Forster has litigated scores of wage/hour class, collective, and representative actions. She has particular expertise in helping companies navigate highly sensitive claims for sexual harassment and abuse, gender discrimination, whistleblower retaliation and pay equity at the pre-filing stage, thereby avoiding any public filing.
What sets Forster’s practice apart is her dedication to pro bono work and advancing LGBTQ+ rights. In July 2023, Forster, a team of MTO lawyers and co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit against the Idaho State Superintendent of Education and other Idaho school officials on behalf of a rising seventh-grade transgender student and an LGBTQ high school student organization challenging Idaho’s new school facilities law, Senate Bill 1100, that singles out transgender students for discriminatory treatment. In another case, Forster obtained a preliminary injunction preventing the Washington Department of Corrections from “outing transgender inmates.”
