Mary Katherine Planchet

Prior Experience

Before joining Faegre Drinker, Mary-Kate practiced insurance coverage and defense, tort and catastrophic loss, and labor and employment law at a national litigation firm. She performed legal research, prepared objective and persuasive pleadings, made court appearances for various matters, interfaced directly with clients, attended mediations to facilitate settlements for various types of cases, and performed substantive insurance coverage analyses.

While attending the evening division at Loyola Marymount Law School, Mary-Kate worked full-time during the day as a legal assistant for a personal injury and vaccine litigation firm, and later as a law clerk for a business, entertainment and insurance litigation firm. At Loyola, she served as the chief articles editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review and was a writing tutor for Loyola students, as well as a mentor for incoming students.

Mary-Kate also previously interned for JusticeCorps, where she counseled four to six self-represented litigants per day on family law court system and filing procedures for dissolution of marriage, child custody, paternity and ex parte processes, and translated Spanish documents for monolingual litigants. She also volunteered for the Meserau Free Legal Clinic, where she assisted self-represented litigants with matters ranging from civil to criminal cases, assisting with referrals and outlining the next steps for the litigants’ various matters.

Personal Interests

Outside the office, Mary-Kate enjoys running, hiking, and attending musicals, operas, plays, and visiting art museums and botanical gardens.