Kate Gillespie is an associate attorney at Baum Hedlund and focuses her practice on the firm's drug product liability cases and class action cases. These include cases involving birth defects related to antidepressant use and suicide in patients taking Paxil. She earned a B.S. in Psychology at the University of Oregon and her law degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles where she won the William M. Byrne, Sr. Trial Advocacy Competition. Ms. Gillespie was a volunteer law clerk at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, where she provided family law and domestic violence assistance to low-income families in Los Angeles. She also clerked at the the Center for Conflict Resolution, where she provided negotiation and mediation services to low-income individuals in Los Angeles. She is admitted in California state and federal courts.
Born:
Education:
- University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (B.S., Psychology, 1997)
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California (J.D., 2003)
- Dean's Honor List, 1996
- Byrne Trial Advocacy Competition Team, 2001-2002
- Winner of the 2003 William M. Byrne, Sr. Trial Advocacy Competition
- Law Clerk Harriett Buhai Law Center, Summer 2001
- Legal Intern Murchison & Cumming, 2002-2003
Admissions:
- California, 2003
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2003
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 2003
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2005
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2005
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2008
Member:
- State Bar of California
- American Bar Association
- Women's Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Loyola Women's Law Association
- Counsel to Southern California Edison, 2003-2005
- Phi Alpha Delta
Awards and Honors:
- Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
- Southern California Super Lawyers – Rising Star, 2008
Civic Activities:
- Assisted indigent clients in resolving landlord/tenant disputes, slander issues, neighbor relations and contract disputes while working at the Loyola Law School Center for Conflict Resolution, 1997
Practice Areas:
- Class Actions
- Complex and Multi-District Litigation
- Consumer Litigation
- Lender Liability
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceutical Drug Liability
- Product Liability Law
- Wrongful Death Law
KATE E. GILLESPIE