Speaker Profile

Kristin J. Achterhof
Partner / Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Kristin Achterhof is the national co-chair of Katten’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice and serves as Katten’s national hiring partner. She has represented some of the world’s most recognizable companies and is often the first phone call that leading technology, manufacturing, consumer goods, entertainment, and fashion-industry clients make on difficult trademark, copyright, and intellectual property issues. As a first-chair trial attorney, she handles intellectual property and all manner of complex business disputes in court. As an adviser on transactions, she maximizes her clients’ rights and revenues. Both in and out of the courtroom, Ms. Achterhof is an advocate and adviser, with an eye to helping clients optimize and protect their tangible and intangible property rights and assets.