Katherine D. Spitz is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP, where she has experience representing both large and small businesses in a variety of cases, including federal tax litigation, distribution disputes, and product liability actions. She is a member of the Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution and the Tax & Individual Planning Practices.
Ms. Spitz’s representative experience includes:
- Second chairing trial for an insurance company in United States Tax Court regarding a proposed $100 million income adjustment
- Representing an insurance company in United States Tax Court regarding a proposed $600 million income adjustment
- Winning summary judgment on sixteen claims alleged by a former distributor against a home water filtration device manufacturer
- Coordinating discovery efforts in complex, multi-forum litigation
Ms. Spitz is the co-author of a chapter on tax litigation for the treatise Business Litigation in Federal Courts. She also co-authors a chapter on civil procedure for the Annual Survey of Wisconsin Law. She is also the author of "Sex, Drugs, and Federalism’s Role: Regulation of the Morning After Pill on Public College and University Campuses," 33 J.C. & U.L. 191 (2006).
Ms. Spitz was named an Up and Coming Lawyer for 2010 by the Wisconsin Law Journal. This award recognizes rising stars in Wisconsin’s legal community who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, contributed to their community, and successfully achieved notable legal outcomes early in their careers. She also serves as the secretary for the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Spitz received her law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School (cum laude, 2007), where she served as the notes editor of the Notre Dame Journal of College and University Law. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s degree in history and political science (magna cum laude). While at Notre Dame, she was also awarded the A. Harrold Weber Moot Court Award for excellence in oral argument.
Ms. Spitz is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Tax Court.