Katharine Fisher Trabucco

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Katharine Fisher Trabucco joined the firm in 2016 as a Social Justice Fellow and became a partner in 2025.  She has spent her career advocating for employees, tenants, consumers, and people with disabilities through impact litigation and structured negotiations.  After graduating from UC Berkeley School of Law in 2015, Katharine was a legal fellow in the Gender Equity & LGBT Rights and Work & Family Programs at Legal Aid at Work.  Katharine has been selected by SuperLawyers as a Rising Star since 2018.

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Education

  • J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 2015
  • B.A., Political Science, International Studies, Emory University, 2012

Bar and Court Admissions

  • State Bar of California, 2015

  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Awards

  • Prosser Award, Sex-Based Discrimination, UC Berkeley School of Law

  • Public Interest Fellow, UC Berkeley School of Law

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Disability Rights Bar Association
  • National Lawyers Guild
  • American Constitution Society

Prior Employment

  • Berkeley Law Bridge Fellow, Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center, 2015
  • Law Clerk, Brayton Purcell LLP, 2014
  • Legal Intern, East Bay Community Law Center’s Clean Slate Program, 2013

Representative Cases

  • Munguia-Brown, et al. v. Equity Residential, et al., No. CV 16-01225-JSW-TSH (N.D. Cal.) (bench trial victory in certified class action on behalf of 200,000 tenants of Equity Residential properties in California who have been charged one or more late fees of $50 or 5% of their monthly rental amount for late payment of rent; court declared the late fee “null and void” for violating California Civil Code section 1671(d) and Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Business & Prof. Code § 17200); see 2024 WL 1530571 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 4, 2024) (Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law); 2017 WL 4838822 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 23, 2017) (class certification order); 337 F.R.D. 509 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 18, 2021) (discovery order finding that defendants waived attorney work product protection); 2020 WL 6130887 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 19, 2020) (discovery order finding that defendants waived attorney-client privilege); 2019 WL 3779523 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 12, 2019) (order granting in part plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment); 2021 WL 4951460 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 25, 2021) (order expanding class action, dismissing defendants’ extraneous debt claims against the class, and denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment on its voluntary payment doctrine defense).

  • Nevarez, et al. v. Forty Niners Football Co., et al., No. 16-CV-07013-LHK (N.D. Cal.) (certified class action under the Americans with Disabilities Act and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act for injunctive relief and damages resulting from defendants’ failure to build Levi’s Stadium in compliance with disability access standards, resulting in a comprehensive settlement agreement requiring extensive, systemic barrier removal in the Stadium and its related parking lot and pedestrian right of way, policy changes to ensure that people with mobility disabilities may fully and fairly obtain accessible seating, and establishing a damages fund of $24 million, the largest ever in a disability access class action against a place of public accommodation); see 326 F.R.D. 562 (N.D. Cal. 2018).

  • Siciliano v. Apple, Inc., 2013-I-CV-257675 (Santa Clara Cnty. Super. Ct.) (in case challenging Apple’s in-app auto-renewing subscription practices under California’s Automatic Renewal Law, obtained certification of class of California consumers, defeated Apple’s motions for summary judgment and adjudication, and settled for $16 million on the eve of trial).

Representative Publications