About Katie
Katie Klinghard built her professional legal career in Tennessee courts and regulation workplaces. She entered law program after an undergraduate diploma and finished her legal research within the mid-2000s. Her route into practice has been steady and practical, formed by study room instruction and courtroom experience.
She earned a Juris Doctor from The Nashville School of Law in 2005. Prior to that she finished undergraduate studies at Austin Peay State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science. Those educational years gave her an operating knowledge of legal principles and the procedural guidelines that govern state practice.
After law program, Klinghard began practicing in Tennessee. She is certified to appear in Tennessee courts and has spent her career working within the state's legal system. Early work concerned case preparation, client interviews, and managing filings. Over time she took on large things and extra complex documents, dealing with tasks that ranged from record drafting to court hearings.
Her colleagues describe her as methodical; she strategies things by breaking them into discrete steps and addressing every on its deserves. She is comfortable making ready pleadings, conducting discovery, and arguing things earlier than judges. She additionally handles client consultations the place she explains alternatives, outlines probably outcomes, and units practical timelines.
Klinghard joined Mathis, Bates & Klinghard, PLLC as a partner in a firm that bears her name. Within that placing she collaborates with other lawyers and staff on case strategy, settlement negotiations, and litigation preparation. Her role includes supervising junior lawyers and coordinating with experts and outside vendors when instances call for specialized input.
Outside of lively casework she has remained related to legal education through ongoing persevering with-education guides and expert seminars. She maintains current on modifications in statutes and procedural rules that affect practice in Tennessee courts. That steady awareness to evolving law informs her court tactics and client advice.
She is based at Mathis, Bates & Klinghard, PLLC and represents clients in matters introduced in Tennessee. Her recent practice concentrates on serving clients thru her work at Mathis, Bates & Klinghard, PLLC, representing individuals and organizations in Tennessee things.
