Please join us in congratulating Madison Senior Counsel Katherine R. Rist on being named a Wisconsin Law Journal Up and Coming Lawyer honoree for 2013. 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 career.
Ms. Rist’s experience includes real estate transactions, successful representation of financial institutions, land developers, investors, property owners and managers in real property sales and acquisitions, real estate development and zoning matters, including mixed-use and residential developments and the negotiation of commercial and industrial leases. As a way to better her community, she takes pride in concentrating her legal work in affordable housing development and finance in addition to contributing to the firm’s local United Way campaign. Ms. Rist has also shown a tremendous commitment to Foley’s mission through her service on the firm’s national recruiting committee.