Katherine E. Perrelli

Ms. Perrelli is a partner in the firm’s Boston office and Chair of Seyfarth’s national Litigation Department. She is a trial lawyer with over 25 years of experience representing regional, national, and international corporations in the financial services, transportation, manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, and staffing industries. Her commercial practice focuses on trial work and counseling in the areas of trade secrets and restrictive covenants, unfair competition and complex commercial disputes. Her experience spans all forms of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, as well as litigation in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies across the country. On the employment side, Ms. Perrelli’s practice focuses on trial work and counseling regarding employer compliance with the ADA, ADEA, Title VII and all other state and governmental laws affecting employers.

Ms. Perrelli is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. Using Lean Six Sigma and project management methodologies, our SeyfarthLean approach delivers increased value to our clients at a time of increased market pressures and competitive demands. Seyfarth’s commitment to delivering legal services in a new way—with an emphasis on value and continuous improvement—has been praised by the Association of Corporate Counsel as being "five years ahead of every other AmLaw 200 firm."

Ms. Perrelli has been selected regularly as one of the state’s “Super Lawyers” and “Top Women Lawyers” in a joint survey conducted by the publishers of Law and Politics magazine and Boston magazine, as part of a special publication entitled “The Top Attorneys in the Northeast.”

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Areas of Practice 1) Trade Secrets, 2) Computer Fraud & Non-Competes, 3) Labor & Employment, 4) Franchise & Distribution Litigation, 5) Counseling and Dispute Resolution, 6) Employment Litigation and 7) Commercial Litigation
Law School Western New England College School of Law (J.D., 1984)
Education Skidmore College (B.A., 1980)
Bar Member / Association Massachusetts State Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Connecticut State Bar Association
Most recent firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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