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Katie M. Horton
Associate
Katie Horton is a litigator who focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts. She represents clients in all manner of disputes, particularly product liability, contract disputes and intellectual property.
Katie also represents clients in connection with a wide range of government investigations, including banking, housing, and employment issues. She has a Master of Laws in Securities and Financial Regulation, focusing on government investigations and white-collar defense, securities fraud and insider trading, anti-money laundering regulation and corporate criminal liability.
Prior to joining the firm, Katie was a trial attorney at the Office of the Public Defender for Orange and Osceola counties in Florida. While there, Katie represented individuals from arrest to resolution. She appeared as lead attorney in jury trials and evidentiary hearings and negotiated for dropped or reduced charges.
- Won dismissal of product liability case on jurisdictional grounds.
- Won summary judgment for client in a condominium dispute.
- Won summary judgment for client in a landlord-tenant dispute.
- Won a not guilty verdict in a jury trial for (actual) possession of controlled substance as first-chair attorney.
- Won a not guilty verdict in a jury trial for criminal mischief as first-chair attorney.
- Won a motion to dismiss all charges in a felony case on speedy trial grounds.
- Won motion to suppress physical evidence for Fourth Amendment violations, resulting in charges against client being dropped.
- Successfully challenged unfavorable evidence under Daubert.
- Second-chair attorney on a first-degree murder trial.
- Second-chair on a sexual battery trial.
- Second-chair attorney on an armed carjacking and armed robbery trial, securing acquittals on all charges.
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., 2018
- Tulane University Law School, J.D., 2012
Admissions
- District of Columbia, 2017
- Virginia, 2017
- Florida, 2013
Memberships and Affiliations
- Member, American Bar Association, White Collar Crime Committee
- Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers