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Overview

Kate Hammond counsels clients in litigation and dispute resolution. 

Prior Experience

Prior to joining the firm, Kate worked for Faegre Drinker as a summer associate, researching and drafting memoranda on legal issues across multiple practice areas. She also served as a student intern with the Kline School of Law Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic, where she represented clients in immigration asylum applications pending in federal court.

Kate gained additional litigation experience as a judicial intern to the Honorable Pamela A. Carlos of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, conducting legal research, drafting bench memoranda, and drafting a judicial opinion addressing a petition for federal habeas corpus relief. Before law school, Kate worked as a legal assistant, where she drafted pleadings, motions, written discovery, subpoenas, and settlement releases.

During law school, Kate served as executive editor of notes for the Drexel Law Review and as a teaching assistant for Criminal Law and Legal Methods I and II.

Personal Interests

Outside of the office, Kate enjoys snowboarding, playing golf, reading fiction, and cheering on the Baltimore Ravens and Orioles.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania

Insights & Events

Other Perspectives
  • “Educational Homicide”: Bradford and a Constitutionally Inadequate Education in Baltimore
    18 Drexel L. Rev. 199 (2025)

Leadership & Community

Professional Associations

  • American Bar Association
  • Philadelphia LGBTQ+ Bar Association

Civic Activities

  • Family Court Help Center — Volunteer, 2024-26 
  • Homeless Advocacy Project — Volunteer, 2025 
  • Trevor Project — Volunteer Crisis Counselor, 2022-23

Honors

  • Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law — Emalee G. Welsh Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship; CALI Excellence for the Future Award/Best Student Performance in Legal Methods I, Legal Methods II, Professional Responsibility, Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Legal Research, and Sex, Gender, & the Law
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — Phi Beta Kappa
Awards Methodology
No aspect of these recognitions has been approved by the highest court of any state.