Cali Arat

Cali Arat (née Cope-Kasten) is a Partner at Wilkinson Stekloff. Since joining the firm at its founding in 2016, she has served as a key member of more than half of the firm’s trial teams.

Cali has helped to develop and execute successful trial strategies for corporate clients across a diverse set of industries in products liability and antitrust matters, from pharmaceuticals to sports to social media. Her experience includes jury and bench trials, in both state and federal court, as well as numerous arguments at both the trial and appellate level.

Cali’s work includes serving as trial counsel for Monsanto in its first successful defense of the weedkiller Roundup against claims that it causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; representing the NCAA in negotiations to secure a historic settlement that resolved sprawling name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) litigation against the NCAA; representing former State Department officials in a nationally publicized series of cases brought under the Freedom of Information Act; and securing a full grant of summary judgment for Georgia-Pacific LLC in a multibillion-dollar consumer class action.

In addition to her impressive legal skills, Cali is dedicated to mentoring junior lawyers at the firm and also currently serves as the co-chair of Wilkinson Stekloff’s DEI Committee.

Cali’s work has earned her wide recognition. She is ranked by Chambers as “Up and Coming” in Nationwide Product Liability & Mass Torts, and is recommended by Legal 500 for "Sports." Cali received Law360's "Rising Star" award for Product Liability in 2025, was named a “Rising Star” by the National Law Journal in 2024, and was identified as a “Rising Star of the Courtroom” by Business Insider in 2022. She is recognized as a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation and named to their “Top 250 Women in Litigation” and top “40 & Under” lists. Cali has also twice been selected for Lawdragon’s “500 X – The Next Generation” and was featured in Law.com’s “How I Made Partner” series.

Before joining Wilkinson Stekloff, Cali clerked for Chief Judge John R. Tunheim, United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from Macalester College and her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan.