Attorney

Katrina Patrick - Attorney

PRACTICE DESCRIPTION

Ms. Patrick primarily represents (1) employees in employment discrimination cases before administrative, federal, state and local proceedings and (2) persons injured or sexually assaulted at various locations including but not limited to apartment complexes, parking lots, stores, schools, and more.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Ms. Patrick’s practice consists of the following:

Employment Disputes

• Represented employees, along side the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in several employment disputes: EEOC and Stewart v. Denny’s and EEOC and Luckett v. Graco Interests, Inc.
• Represented employees in several high profile, newsworthy discrimination cases.
• Represented clients in single and multiple party litigation involving discrimination claims and various common law claims including but not limited to fraud, conversion, breach of contract, assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of covenant not to compete, breach of fiduciary duty, business disparagement, tortious interference with contract, trespass to real property, etc.
• Represented a UK engineering firm in employment matters involving a U.S. employee.
• Represented a music management company in employment matters involving its employee.
• Negotiated and drafted compensation agreements, settlements and severance packages.
• Investigated employee complaints, including but not limited to charges of sexual harassment and discrimination.

Sexual Assault/Harassment Disputes

• Represented a female passenger who was sexually assaulted by a police officer following a traffic stop
• Represented three women sexually harassed and groped by owners and managers of the company
• Represented a minor child sexually assaulted in an apartment in a large apartment complex
• Represented a female customer sexually assaulted in an auto parts retail store by a store employee
• Represented a worker sexually groped and harassed by an upper manager in a Fortune 100 company
• Represented a minor child sexually assaulted in an afterschool daycare program by two other students

• Represented a bipolar worker who was harassed by management because of her medical condition
• Represented a worker with carpal tunnel syndrome who was repeatedly denied workplace accommodations
• Represented an epileptic driver who was terminated after his medical condition was discovered by management

Age Discrimination/Harassment Disputes

• Represented a senior worker who was repeatedly harassed and questioned by management as to his plans for retirement
• Represented a senior worker who was “laid off” because of slow business but was replaced by a younger worker

Race Discrimination/Harassment Disputes

• Represented fifteen Hispanic workers subjected to vile, inhumane acts by management of a popular donut company including but not limited to being called “wetbacks”, made to work odd jobs like mowing lawns and handling animal feces without pay and having their testicles and buttocks groped by male managers
• Represented an African-American worker of a law firm who was subjected to unequal wages and racial slurs
• Represented an African-American employee who was referred to by her manager as “the n-word” in an email
• Represented Asian worker who was repeatedly harassed and mocked because of his accent and culture
• Represented an auto driver who was the victim of road rage when another hurled racial slurs at him and shot at him

ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS

• Nominated as Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation 2007
• Voted Houston's Top Lawyer (H Texas Magazine 2007)
• Voted Houston's Top Lawyer For The People (H Texas Magazine 2007)
• Speaker: Building Your Professional Brand For Success In Any Legal Environment (Downtown Group, October 2007).
• Featured in Houston's Top Attorneys section of Houston's Modern Luxury 2007.
• Member: State Bar of Texas, Texas Pattern Jury Charges Committee, (2005-2006)
• Member: National Employment Lawyers Association, (Board Member 2002-2003)
• Co-Planner and Speaker: Employment Law Conference, Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law, (April 2006)
• Speaker: Starting and Building a Plaintiff's Employment Practice, 12th Annual Labor And Employment Law Conference, The University of Texas School of Law, (May 2005)
• Speaker: What Every Lawyer Needs To Know About Employment Law, Fort Bend County Bar Association, (March 2005)
• Member: National Registry of Who's Who Among Professionals
• Published: Autran v. State: Fourth Amendment Judicial Independence-ET TU Texas, 20 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 385 (1995)
• Volunteer: Big Sister Mentor Programs, Angel Tree Prison Ministry and Breast Cancer Awareness

EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• Howard University, B.B.A. in Accounting, cum laude, 1992.
• Thurgood Marshall School of Law, J.D., 1996 (Member, Law Review – published).
• Clerk with The Honorable Richard Bianchi, 333rd District Court – Houston, Texas.
• Attorney, boutique law firm specializing in employment discrimination.
  

CASE INQUIRY FORM

Contact us today for legal advice and consultation. However please note that there is no attorney-client relationship until a written contract is executed by both attorney and client.

Employment discrimination cases are, by design, complex because of the emotional and physical investment that workers have made on behalf of the employer all in the name of earning an honest living.  Based thereon, below are a few tips that may assist the worker in his or her claims:

1. Document everything

2. Complain appropriately

3. Seek legal counsel immediately

4. Keep documentation