Katherine Venti

Shareholder @Parsons Behle & Latimer

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Parsons Behle & Latimer is a full-service law firm with offices in Salt Lake City, Reno, Boise, and Idaho Falls.Katherine is a Shareholder and past Chair of the Litigation Department - a 90+ attorney department with expertise in SEC Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Banking Litigation, Commerical Litigation, and Product Liability. Katherine concentrates her practice in Product Liability, Commercial Litigation. She has over 20 years of litigation experience and is licensed to practice in both Utah and West Virginia.Katherine is very involved in community and bar activities, currently serving as Chair of the Advisory Committee on the Local Rules of Practice, United States District Court, Utah She is a Vice Chair for the Ethics and Discipline Committee of the Utah Supreme Court and served for many years on the Utah Bar Character and Fitness Committee and the Utah Rules of Professional Conduct Committee.In the community, she served for many years on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and is former Chair. She recently completed two terms on the Board of Directors of the YWCA Utah and continued to serve on the YWCA\'s Board Development and Governance Committee. For both the YWCA and Planned Parenthood, she chaired the organizations\' respective (successful!) search committees for new CEOsShe is a member of the Utah Bar Association, the Salt Lake County Bar Association, the West Virginia Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute and the Association for Defense Trial Counsel. Katherine holds an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale Hubbell. She has been selected several time to the Mountain States Super Lawyer list. Katherine is recognized in Best Lawyers in America and was named Best Lawyers\' 2012 Salt Lake City Product Liability Litigation Lawyer of the Year.She serves as a mentor with the Utah Bar\'s New Lawyer Training Program.