Kathryn Ballentine Shepherd

Kat Shepherd / Actress

KBS Acting

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KBS Legal Career

Along with her acting career, Kathryn Ballentine Shepherd is a writer and an AV-rated attorney, whose private practice has long been known for complex cases involving intensive discovery and litigation. 

She has published two books and other articles covering pretrial procedures, trial preparation, and application of the Federal Commerce Clause (see a sample article).

Her career began in antitrust law with San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman), and continued in litigation as a named partner in the firm of Krause Baskin Ballentine.  In her own successful solo family law practice, she was known as a top divorce lawyer in California, handling many celebrity and appellate cases. 

In 2003 she moved to Virginia, where she now lives at historic
Mahockney Plantation, and is also active in the Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society and as a volunteer docent in the Curator's Office at the United States Supreme Court.

Click here to email Kat Shepherd.



Media Coverage of Kat

Read the Washington Post coverage of Kat's testimony on juvenile justice issues, on an expert panel with Judge Rufus G. King III and others before the Judiciary Committee of the District of Columbia Council.

                          Click here for streaming video; 
                                KBS appears at 22:00 mark.


Pacific Sun
cover story

San Francisco
Weekly
Cover Story

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   (c) Kathryn Ballentine Shepherd 1995-2012