Katharine is the global lead for four practice groups in the Thomson Reuters General Counsel’s Office: Reuters Editorial, Employment & Labor, Commercial Disputes, and Investigations. She also serves as general counsel for the Reuters business, and, in 2025, she additionally led the contracting team for the Government business on an interim basis.

Katharine provides strategic vision and advice to Thomson Reuters leaders around the world, with a focus on protecting the future of news and information businesses. Katharine offers deep expertise in crisis management. In 2021, she guided the evacuation from Kabul of over 120 journalists and their families, and, in 2019, she led the criminal defense that ultimately secured the release of two Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters journalists falsely convicted of espionage in Myanmar.

Katharine joined Thomson Reuters in 2014 from Levine Sullivan, a media and intellectual property firm, where she advocated for news organizations and other content creators. She previously served as a legal adviser for the ABA’s Rule of Law programs in Azerbaijan; a Fulbright Fellow in Croatia conducting fieldwork in behavioral economics; a humanitarian aid worker in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo; and an associate at Clifford Chance. She is an Iowa native who is based in our New York City office.