Education
Albany Law School
J.D., 2009, cum laude Inductee, Order of Barristers
Skidmore College
B.A., cum laude, Sociology and Dance, 2006
Bar Admissions
State
New York (2010)
Senior Counsel
Email: kyourth@islerdare.com
Katherine Largo Yourth is a Senior Counsel at IslerDare, P.C.’s Richmond, Virginia office. For over fourteen years, Katie has focused her practice on labor and employment law, including client counseling, mediation, and litigation. She represents employers in various employment law matters, including claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Katie also represents management in collective bargaining negotiations, unfair labor practice charges, grievances, and arbitration.
Katie works collaboratively with clients to identify creative solutions that minimize legal risk and support their business needs. She advises on a wide range of workplace issues, including hiring, leave, discipline, performance management, and investigations. Katie assists management with investigations, including those involving misconduct, alleged harassment, and workplace violence. Katie advises on a wide variety of reasonable accommodation issues, including telework, remote work, schedule changes, leave, and animals in the workplace. She also reviews employment handbooks, policies, and settlement agreements.
Prior to joining IslerDare, Katie served as Associate Counsel and Personnel Law Team Lead at the Defense Logistics Agency, an agency within the Department of Defense, where she advised on personnel, labor, and employment matters and represented the government in associated litigation. Katie graduated from Albany Law School where she served as a Note and Comment Editor for the Albany Law Review, as a member of the Moot Court Board, and as a Teaching Assistant. During law school, she interned for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a state union.
Katie resides with her husband and two daughters in Midlothian, Virginia.
Publications
Katherine Largo, Lactation Frustration: How New York’s New Breastfeeding Legislation Fails to Express Protection for Employees, NYSBA LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW SECTION NEWSLETTER, Spring 2009 (First Place Award, NYSBA Dr. Emanuel Stein Memorial Law Student Writing Competition)
David R. Karp and Katherine Largo, Recent Research on Girls and Violence, PERSPECTIVES, Winter 2007, at 14-15