Katy L. Hart, Attorney

Katy is an astute attorney and litigator who can step into a case and immediately make an impact. Whether her clients are facing trial or alternative dispute resolution, they appreciate having Katy in their corner. She helps businesses resolve controversies over securities and distressed debt trading, banking and commercial lending, health care litigation, breach-of-contract claims, fraud, commercial and residential construction, creditors' rights in bankruptcy litigation, and labor and employment.

Experience

• An effective negotiator, Katy has obtained favorable settlements and judgments on behalf of a nationally recognized advertising agency.

• Other clients that have put their faith in Katy include financial advisors, hedge funds and national health care organizations that provide hospital care, home health care, nursing home care, hospice care and rehabilitation staffing and services.

• Fluent in dram-shop liability and premises liability actions, she has worked out beneficial settlements for entertainment venues.

• Katy obtained a favorable settlement for a financial advisor against multiple banks and litigation trustee in an action on a failed multi-million-dollar loan syndicate.

• She obtained dismissal of a qui tam suit alleging liability under the False Claims Act.

• Katy successfully defended a litigation management company in a federal action to obtain discovery in the United States for use in a foreign tribunal.

• Katy obtained a favorable settlement for a physician in professional malpractice suit against former insurance company and attorneys.

• She obtained a FINRA arbitration award for a securities brokerage firm against a competitor for employee raiding and trade secret violations. The award was upheld in a record 37 days against a motion to vacate.

• Katy has represented property owners/sellers/buyers in various real estate disputes.

• She defended hedge funds and a hedge fund manager against a world-renown bank alleging losses in a breach of contract action involving collateralized debt obligations and credit default swap obligations.

Education

• Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, J.D., 2009

• University of Texas at Arlington, B.A., 2002

Admissions

• Texas

• Colorado

• Pennsylvania

• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

• United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas

• United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas

Professional and Civic Activities

• American Bar Association