Katherine E. McKune
office: (502) 238-9904
email: kmckune@tachaulaw.com
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1975; admitted to bar, Virginia (2002), District of Columbia (2004), Kentucky (2005). Admitted to practice: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Indiana, Eastern District of Kentucky, and Western District of Kentucky. Education: Wake Forest University (B.A., English and Politics, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1997); University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 2002). Judicial clerk: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Hon. Boyce F. Martin, Jr. (2002-2003).
Associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C. (2003-2005); Associate, Tachau Maddox Hovious & Dickens PLC (2005-2007). Member: Kentucky, Virginia, Louisville, District of Columbia, and American Bar Associations.
Practice Area: Business Litigation
Litigation Experience
After graduation from law school, Kate served as a law clerk for United States Circuit Judge Boyce F. Martin, Jr., of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Kate spent the next year and a half of her legal practice as a general litigation associate at the Washington, D.C., office of a large national law firm. There, she worked on a variety of cases involving environmental enforcement, insurance coverage disputes, and federal employee civil rights. She helped a large telecommunications client respond to and defend against concurrent government investigations. Kate also had the opportunity to participate in the defense of a client against a multi-million-dollar qui tam action filed under the federal False Claims Act, involving Medicaid reimbursement for health services provided in schools.
Kate started practicing in Louisville in March 2005 and maintains her practice in business litigation. She has worked on matters involving executive compensation and contract disputes, as well as an internal investigation regarding the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. She has defended employment discrimination matters and has worked on several cases involving allegations of executive and trustee breaches of fiduciary duties.