Katherine Barrett Wiik
Experience
- Trial practice focusing on complex civil litigation, including products liability and mass tort litigation.
Outside Experience
- William Mitchell College of Law, Adjunct Professor, International Human Rights Law (Spring 2009).
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Selected Results*
$700,000 recovery in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving an 18-year-old man who died while in the custody of a county jail (co-counsel)
Memberships
- American Association for Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
- Minnesota Association for Justice (formerly Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association)
- Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Minnesota Women Lawyers
Civic Associations
- The Infinity Project, All State Steering Committee Member
- Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Volunteer Attorney
- Minnesota Supreme Court Gender Fairness Implementation Committee, Member
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Minnesota
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D. (2005); Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Co-Editor-in-Chief (2004-2005)
- Queen's University Belfast, L.L.M., Human Rights Law, with honors, Marshall Scholar (2002)
- Queen's University Belfast, M.A., Comparative Ethnic Conflict, with merit, Marshall Scholar (2001)
- Macalester College, B.A., Women's and Gender Studies, Communication Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude (2000)