KATHERINE A. ROBERTS
Partner; Co-Chair, Labor,
Employment and Immigration Group
Sidley Austin, LLP
Kate Roberts has an unusually wide range of accomplishments including her team’s recent 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. This record of achievement combined with her leadership of one of the nation’s top employment practices and her high-level pro bono and philanthropic work make her a strong candidate for this honor.
The recent trial win came when Roberts served as trial counsel for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in one of the very few misclassification cases to go all the way to trial. Working with co-counsel Mark Campbell and William Martucci of Shook Hardy, the team won a complete defense verdict in November 2021 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.
