Katherine H. Hansen

Katherine H. Hansen joined Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss in 2011, became a partner in 2017, and is now the firm’s managing partner. Over the course of her practice, she has worked closely with many private and public sector unions, faculty at colleges and universities, professional athletes, health care and transportation workers, and individual employees in a range of industries. Her practice focuses on collective bargaining, contract enforcement, organizing campaigns, advising unions on internal and governance matters, and litigation on behalf of unions, employees, and employee groups—through arbitration, mediation, proceedings before government agencies including the EEOC and the NLRB, and in state and federal court. She has successfully argued numerous cases including before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C., Second, and Third Circuits, as well as before New York State’s Appellate Division.

Ms. Hansen also leads the firm’s higher education practice, advising faculty groups and individuals on matters including academic freedom, collective bargaining, tenure, promotion, and non-reappointment disputes, shared governance, internal investigations, and discrimination.

She also represents individual employees with respect to discrimination cases, severance negotiations, and other employment matters.

Prior to law school, Ms. Hansen spent years working as a union representative for the Service Employees International Union in California and Wisconsin. She then graduated magna cum laude from Cornell Law School, where she focused on labor and employment law. She has also worked internationally in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she interned with Lawyers for Human Rights.