Kat Balkoski represents clients in a wide range of litigation matters, including contract disputes, consumer protection class actions, complex construction disputes, and trust disputes. Kat also advises clients on insurance coverage issues and represents policyholders in coverage disputes. Kat also has experience advising clients regarding regulatory matters involving the FDA, SEC, and DFPI.

Kat’s experience with all stages of litigation and appeals includes drafting pleadings and dispositive motions, arguing motions in court, drafting appellate briefs, cross-examining witnesses, taking depositions, preparing witnesses for depositions, propounding written discovery and drafting written discovery responses, and supervising document collection, review, and production.

Kat maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on civil rights and immigration. As part of the Thakur v. Trump team, which has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars of terminated and frozen research grants for University of California professors and researchers, Kat has drafted motions for preliminary injunction, drafted appellate briefs, met and conferred with DOJ regarding discovery, and worked directly with named plaintiffs to draft declarations regarding their academic research and the harms caused by the Trump administration’s termination of their research grants.

At Berkeley Law School, Kat represented a client in an immigration appeal before the Ninth Circuit and obtained relief for her client. Kat also externed for the Honorable Marsha Berzon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before law school, Kat taught Literature Humanities, a freshman seminar on literature and philosophy, as well as French language, culture, and translation courses at Columbia University.