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Katherine M. Anthony is an employment law expert focusing her practice on training, counseling, and litigation.  Kate has litigated employment cases in numerous state and federal courts, including the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  For many years, she was legal counsel to one of the largest, most complex agencies in Illinois, the Department of Corrections.  She was also counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Michael J. Madigan.  Kate is an accomplished employment law trainer, delivering lively, entertaining and engaging legal compliance training. 

Before joining CorpLaw Associates, LLC, Kate led training courses for a wide variety of businesses of all types and sizes, both inside and outside the United States.   She leads courses on such matters such as workplace harassment and discrimination, interviewing techniques, performance management and documentation and workplace investigations.   Her clients range from family-owned grocery stores to fashion industry leaders, national sports franchises to Fortune 500 financial firms.   

Prior to her training focus, Kate was legal counsel to the second largest state agency in Illinois, the Department of Corrections.  At the time, the agency employed nearly 15,000 people and housed more than 40,000 inmates.   Kate handled a wide array of corporate legal issues for the agency, including labor and employment matters.  She defended discrimination and harassment claims brought by employees as well as civil rights claims brought by inmates.  She also trained agency administrators and staff on legal issues such as workplace harassment, workplace investigations and inmate civil rights.

Before that, Kate spent several years as assistant counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Michael J. Madigan.  There she worked closely with legislators and lobbyists in the creation, revision, and passage of legislation.  She advised legislators on the constitutionality and other practical effects of proposed legislation.  She also defended employment discrimination and harassment charges filed by employees of the Illinois General Assembly. 

Kate began her legal career at a small firm in downtown Chicago, where she represented employees in workplace discrimination cases.  She litigated state and federal court cases involving race, national origin, gender, age, religion, pregnancy and disability discrimination.  She also litigated cases involving retaliation, breach of contract, and wrongful discharge, among others.

Kate is a graduate of the University of Florida, where in 1990 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree.  She received her Juris Doctor from the Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1994.   Kate is admitted to practice law before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Northern and Southern District Courts of Illinois and the Illinois Supreme Court.