Pierce Atwood LLP

64 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Employment Law - Management Litigation - Labor and Employment

Biography

Employment law attorney Katie Porter represents private and public employers and helps emerging companies establish and maintain all aspects of their labor and employment policies and practices.

Katie’s experience includes drafting employment-related agreements and policies, counseling clients through employee issues, consulting on internal investigations, providing employment advice for corporate transactions, and defending clients in federal and state courts and before federal and state administrative agencies.

Katie routinely advises clients on federal, state, and local employment laws, including discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, accommodations, leaves, wage and hour, equity compensation structures, COVID-19 compliance, whistleblower, and misclassification issues.

Pierce Atwood LLP

64 Best Lawyers awards

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Overview

  • Hofstra University, J.D., cum laude, graduated 2012
  • Tufts University, B.A., graduated 2007

  • United States, Maine
  • United States, New York

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Maine
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States, Maine
  • United States, New York
  • Hofstra University, J.D., cum laude, graduated 2012
  • Tufts University, B.A., graduated 2007
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Maine
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • United States Supreme Court

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Employment Law - Management
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment
Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America from 2023-2025 for work in:
  • Corporate Law - 2025
  • Labor and Employment Law - Management - 2025
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment - 2025
  • Corporate Law - 2024
  • Labor and Employment Law - Management - 2024
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment - 2024
  • Corporate Law - 2023
  • Labor and Employment Law - Management - 2023
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment - 2023
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Corporate Law
  • Labor and Employment Law - Management
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment

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