Katten has a long-term commitment to helping the poor, the powerless and the disenfranchised obtain first-rate pro bono representation.

Attorneys and other legal professionals lend their time, resources and talent to matters related to advancing the rights and welfare of women, minorities and the GLBT community, and to organizations including the following:

• Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic
• Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc.
• Domestic Violence Legal Clinic
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• Rainbow PUSH Coalition
• Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs

Katten sponsors a variety of programs that enrich the community and in turn enrich the lives of our attorneys and staff.

 

In particular, our relationships with local schools help students succeed academically and prepare them for continued success in the future.

• Cristo Rey Jesuit High School serves low-income and minority youth on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Katten is part of the school’s innovative work-study program, which places students in office-based jobs with income earned disbursed directly to the school to defray tuition costs.
• Katten’s Women’s Leadership Forum sponsors various service projects at Simpson Academy for Young Women, the only Chicago Public School exclusively for pregnant and parenting students.
• For over 10 years, associates from Katten’s New York office have served as coaches and mentors for students on the Townsend Harris High School Moot Court/Mock Trial Team, who come from diverse backgrounds and are recognized for their high level of achievement.
• Katten’s Los Angeles office has partnered with the Constitutional Rights Foundation’s Youth Internship Program, which places low-income, urban high school students from the Los Angeles area as paid interns at law firms, businesses and government agencies.
• Katten is a partner in Urban Alliance, the only year-round high school internship program in Washington, D.C., serving over 500 young people in the city’s most under-served neighborhoods.

Katten supports numerous organizations and programs that share the firm’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, including the following:

• American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession
• American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women
• Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater Chicago, Inc.
• California Minority Counsel Program
• Chicago Bar Association’s Alliance for Women
• Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms
• Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law Firms
• The Conference Board
• Corporate Counsel Women of Color
• GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
• Goodman Theatre Diversity Nights
• Joffrey Ballet Affinity Nights
• Korean American Bar Association
• Lambda Legal
• Mexican American Bar Foundation
• Minority Corporate Counsel Association
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• National Association of Women Lawyers
• New York Women’s Bar Association
• Northwestern University School of Law Women’s Leadership Coalition
• POWER: Opening Doors for Women®
• The White House Project
• Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
• Working Playground