Cook County Civil Rights Lawyers

Kathryn M. Walker graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School where she received the Craig T. Spangenberg Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy for her work in the Michigan Clinical Law Program, representing a variety of clients in state and federal court. In the spring of 2010, Ms. Walker wrote a successful petition for rehearing en banc and, subsequently, submitted a supplementary brief to the Sixth Circuit. She also represented a former inmate in a federal suit against the local county jail for abuse, harassment, and deliberate indifference. Ms. Walker spent two summers working at public defender agencies,...