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Katie Burnett

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Senior Managing Associate
Chicago
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312.624.6357
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Katie represents businesses from a diverse range of industries, including health care, pharmaceuticals, financial services and commercial real estate. She often manages and coordinates multi-jurisdiction litigation across both state and federal courts.

Katie frequently represents clients in complex business disputes in connection with contract disputes, business torts, employment claims, and other commercial and financial matters. She has extensive experience representing businesses in trade secret misappropriation actions. 

Additionally, Katie represents clients in actions involving a variety of industries and technologies, including medical devices, consumer products, and financial services. Her IP litigation experience includes a variety of Lanham Act litigation, trade secret misappropriation cases, complex patent disputes, and the management of associated state law claims.

She also has experience defending companies and individuals in all types of government investigations and regulatory enforcement actions, including by U.S. Attorney’s Offices, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and state agencies.

Katie has also represented Chapter 11 debtors, creditors, and other parties in complex bankruptcy litigation.

  • Litigation
  • Contract, Business, Commercial & Consumer Disputes
  • Bankruptcy Litigation
  • Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants & Unfair Competition
  • Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 2017
    • cum laude
    • Student Articles Editor, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
  • Villanova University, 2011
    • cum laude
  • Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • Listed, Top 10 Most Active Trade Secret Litigation Lawyers, Lex Machina 2024 Trade Secret Litigation Report
  • Listed, Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Business Lit, 2025
  • Member, Chicago Bar Association
Articles and Presentations
March 17, 2025
Insulet Corp. May Have to Choose Between $452 Million Jury Award or Permanently Blocking Competitor From Utilizing Its Trade Secrets
October 25, 2024
Jury Finds Phillips 66 Liable For Misappropriating Trade Secrets in $605 Million Verdict
January 31, 2024
2023 Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenant Year in Review - What Happened and What is Likely to Happen

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17 Benesch Attorneys Selected to 2025 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
September 30, 2024
Benesch’s Scott Humphrey and Katie Burnett Among Top 10 Most Active Trade Secret Litigation Lawyers in the Country

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