A former U.S. Attorney and Missouri House Speaker, Catherine defends clients nationwide, helping resolve their toughest and most sensitive legal issues.
Catherine has successfully handled high-profile, bet-the-company, complex matters in federal court and before regulatory agencies. She represents leading global and closely-held companies – as well as their officers and owners – in civil and criminal investigations and in business litigation. Catherine also strategically advises senior management and boards of directors, offering comprehensive solutions to address their legislative and enforcement challenges. Matters Catherine handles include:
Clients value that Catherine is uniquely positioned to identify complex legal issues, along with the pathways and collaborative strategies to resolution. Before leading the firm as the first woman to serve as Chair, she also served as the chief federal law enforcement officer for the Eastern District of Missouri, the only woman Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives and for five years on staff for U.S. Senator Kit Bond. As U.S. Attorney, she supervised more than 4,000 criminal, affirmative and defensive civil cases and personally tried cases to jury verdicts. She also supervised and assisted in the development of cutting-edge theories of criminal prosecution.
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Ginger Gooch, a partner in the Husch Blackwell’s Springfield office, was appointed today to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District.
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The state-by-state Resource Center is part of Husch Blackwell’s larger effort to respond to COVID-19-related legal issues.
Years of Hope. Years of Courage.
Catherine was recently among 99 others marching behind the “Years of Hope – Years of Courage” float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, commemorating the 100th anniversary of women's constitutional right to vote. Joining Catherine in period dress were the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman, the great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass, an ancestor of Susan B. Anthony, and the great-granddaughter of suffragist Ida B. Wells. The year leading up to the project included Catherine, countless volunteers, sponsors and organizers who raised $350,000 without corporate backing.