Kathryn Running is an associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Litigation & Trial Department.
Kathryn advocates on behalf of clients in high-stakes litigation involving complex matters of law, particularly in defending clients against putative class and mass arbitration claims. She has extensive experience in litigating cases brought in both federal and state court involving alleged data privacy violations, mass torts, product liability claims, and consumer protection violations. Kathryn also regularly advises clients on strategies for mitigating mass arbitration threats.
Kathryn maintains an active pro bono practice, including by defending the constitutional rights of a non-profit organization in a lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Before joining Latham, Kathryn worked as a litigation associate at an international law firm in Washington, D.C. and clerked for Judge John M. Rogers of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. During law school, she served as an online articles editor for the University of Chicago Law Review and as an International Human Rights Summer Fellow in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Kathryn’s experience includes representing:
A Latham Complex Commercial Litigation team secured a unanimous ruling on behalf of Union Pacific in an interlocutory appeal brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Latham litigation team honored for securing dismissal for client X Corp. in an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) putative class action.