About Kathryn Mickelson

Nominated by her peers as a Leading Lawyer since 2015, one of Best Lawyers’ “Women of Influence” in 2017 and one of Crain’s Media’s Most Notable Women Attorneys in 2018, Katy Mickelson represents her clients and their complex financial estates and sensitive family matters with the utmost discretion and confidentiality. From business owners and professional athletes to some of Chicago’s most influential rain makers, Ms. Mickelson’s clients come to her for her reputation among colleagues and judges as prepared, responsive, and attentive to the smallest of details, and for her no-nonsense approach to the practice of family law. A first chair trial attorney who is also a certified mediator, Ms. Mickelson treats every case as an opportunity to educate her clients and promote financial and emotional dignity.

The only partner in the firm who rose from law clerk to owner, Ms. Mickelson channels this drive and tenacity into each case she handles. Her ability to listen and “hear” her clients and then convert these goals into real results contributes to her prominence as one of Chicago’s most influential family law attorneys, a recognition exemplified early on when she was named one of the Law Bulletin Publishing Company’s 40 Under 40 Illinois Attorneys to Watch in 2012. Ms. Mickelson prides herself on her dedicated mentorship of newer attorneys and she strives to be an example through taking on leadership positions in several non-profit organizations and her frequent lecturing and authoring of articles for prominent legal publications such as the American Bar Association Journal.