Overview

Aggressive with a side of honey, Katie Bettini is a litigator with extensive experience managing and mitigating risk for her clients in high-stakes litigation across a wide range of industries, including health care, hospitality, sports, financial services, nutraceuticals and manufacturing. Whether she is presenting to the board room or the court, Katie is known for her no-nonsense advocacy and analysis and her ability to break down complex concepts into bite-size chunks.

From the outset of each case, Katie works collaboratively with clients to devise a litigation strategy that best aligns with the client’s business objectives. Katie uses her own background as a business owner to understand and navigate business challenges and objectives and translate them into the applicable legal framework.

Although she works for the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, Katie resides in Phoenix, Arizona, and has several years of experience litigating in Arizona state and federal courts.

Antitrust Litigation

Katie has extensive experience in litigating and resolving antitrust litigation in the areas of price-fixing, wage-fixing, bid-rigging, monopoly and illegal asset acquisitions. From early wins through motions to dismiss, to developing antitrust counterclaims in intellectual property disputes, Katie thinks strategically to best position the client for early and lower cost resolutions.

Class Actions

Katie defends putative class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country. Katie’s experience includes antitrust class actions and other high-profile litigation, including multidistrict litigation (MDL) stemming from concussions in sports and alleged safety actions related to a national car seat manufacturer. After achieving victories at the trial and district court level, Katie has successfully defended those victories on appeal. See, e.g., Vitello v. Natrol, LLC, 50 F.4th 689 (8th Cir. 2022); Benko v. Quality Loan Serv. Corp., 454 P.3d 1263 (Nev. 2019).

Commercial Disputes & Complex Litigation

Katie has experience in all aspects of civil litigation and arbitration, ranging from thoughtful and pragmatic pre-litigation defense strategy to motion practice, discovery, settlement, trial and successful results on appeal. Katie specializes in complex, multiparty disputes, and disputes emanating from mergers and acquisitions.

Prior Experience

Prior to joining the firm, Katie spent several years at a large law firm in Phoenix, Arizona. Prior to that, Katie externed for the Hon. Mary H. Murguia in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In law school, she served as executive managing editor for the Arizona State Law Journal and as a board member for the Executive Moot Court Board. She also volunteered as mentor for the National Hispanic Bar Association Mentoring Program.

Personal Interests

In her free time, Katie serves as a personal assistant, chef and consultant to her two small children and golden retriever, Francis. Katie also enjoys international travel, gastronomy and live music; hiking in the Arizona outdoors; and perfecting new recipes.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia
Arizona

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Education

Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
J.D. cum laude, Arizona State Law Journal (executive managing editor) (2015)

Arizona State University
B.S. in Political Science, summa cum laude (2010)

Leadership & Community

Pro Bono

Katie has an active pro bono practice. Most recently, Katie has volunteered her time to assist with a project designed to protect the human rights of vulnerable criminal defendants — such as journalists, protesters, women, religious and ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ+ persons — in foreign jurisdictions.

Professional Associations

  • State Bar of Arizona
  • Maricopa County Bar Association

Honors

  • Best Lawyers® — "Ones to Watch," Commercial Litigation, 2021-25; Antitrust, 2024-25
  • Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing, 2016
  • Willard H. Pedrick Scholar, 2012-15
  • John J. Dawson Memorial Scholarship Recipient, 2014
  • Ronald Jay Cohen Excellence in Advocacy Award Recipient, 2013