Kathleen Mahan

Work Highlights

Vention Medical; GTI Spindle Technology; Short v. LaPlante; Business and Commercial Dispute Docket

Practice Areas

Litigation & Investigations; Intellectual Property Litigation

Career

Hinckley Allen - Partner (2022 - Present); Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson - Member (2018 - 2022) - Associate (2009 - 2018); The Honorable Richard Galway, New Hampshire Supreme Court - Law Clerk (2007 - 2009); New Hampshire Superior Court - Law Clerk (2005 - 2007)

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association; Daniel Webster Batchelder, American Inns of Court (2010 - Present); New Hampshire Bar Association - President-Elect (2023 - Present) - Vice President (2022 - 2023) - Committee on Cooperation with the Courts (2016 - Present) - Board of Governors - Governor at Large (2019 - 2022) - Leadership Academy (2015); New England Bar Association - Board of Directors (2023 - Present); New Hampshire Women's Bar Association; New Hampshire Young Lawyer Delegate to the American Bar Association, House of Delegates (2016 - 2018); Massachusetts Bar Association; United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire - Federal Court Advisory Committee (2019 - Present)

Publications

Openness and Informal Dialogue at the Core of the Bench Bar Relationship; Straight to the Point: A Conversation with Kathleen M. Mahan

Expert in these Jurisdictions

New Hampshire; Massachusetts; United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; United States district Court for the District of New Hampshire; United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Experience

Kathleen Mahan is a Partner at Hinckley Allen and a business litigator known for her success as an advisor and advocate for her clients. She counsels both plaintiffs and defendants, representing them in complex business matters involving organizational restructuring and corporate governance, non-compete conflicts, contracting, trade secret protections, and protracted property disputes. Kate’s knowledge, influence, and powers of persuasion help clients to avoid dire circumstances and in some cases, costly legal ramifications. She is considered a leader in a wide range of intellectual property matters and was a key attorney in one of New Hampshire’s precedent-setting trade secret cases; Kate regularly handles appeals before the New Hampshire Supreme Court, represents clients before the New Hampshire Business and Commercial Dispute Court, state and federal courts, arbitration proceedings, and is Rule 32 certified with the New Hampshire Superior Court for all New Hampshire counties. She currently is president-elect of the New Hampshire Bar Association and is in line to become the first woman in a decade to serve as its president; In her role as president-elect, Kate sits on the Board of Directors for the New Hampshire Bar Association as well as a number of its statewide committees. Separately, she was appointed to the Federal Court Advisory Committee for the District of New Hampshire and is a long time member of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Committee on Cooperation with the Courts. Kate also is a member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society. Kate represents clients in the United States District Court of New Hampshire, the United States District Court of Massachusetts, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the State of New Hampshire; Kate is one of the preeminent lawyers in New England with groundbreaking accomplishments that pave the way for women in law. She is ranked as one of Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for the category of Litigation: General Commercial and has been named Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Intellectual Property, and Trade Secrets Law, as well as Super Lawyers, New Hampshire and Super Lawyers Rising Stars.

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