Kat Patton, Managing Partner, Employment Attorney, Quinn Patton

Managing Partner and dedicated employee advocate focused on disability discrimination, accommodations, retaliation, and workplace rights.

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Kat Patton is the Managing Partner of Quinn Patton, LC, where she represents employees in employment and civil rights matters, with a particular focus on disability discrimination, reasonable accommodations, the ADA and Rehabilitation Act, retaliation, and public-sector employment. She joined the firm as an associate in 2023, became a partner later that year, and has served as Managing Partner since 2024. Her practice includes litigation in federal and state court as well as representation before the EEOC, MCCR, D.C. Office of Human Rights, Maryland Department of Labor, MSPB, and other administrative agencies.

 

Before joining Quinn Patton, Kat practiced public-interest housing law at St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center. Her career before and during law school also included extensive work in Maryland government and politics. She served in several roles for Maryland State Senator Cheryl Kagan, including twice as Chief of Staff, where she worked on legislative strategy, policy development, communications, constituent services, and staff management. Before that, she worked in political fundraising and campaign consulting, raising more than $500,000 for candidates for the Maryland General Assembly and Baltimore City Council.

 

Kat earned her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law and her B.A. in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her legal practice is especially focused on protecting the rights of employees with disabilities and helping clients navigate complex accommodation, leave, discrimination, and retaliation issues.

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