Kathleen Waybourn received her J. D. graduating from St. John’s University School of Law where she was President of the Medicine and Law Society; Executive Director and Publications Director of the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Society; a moot court team competitor in the National Appellate Advocacy Competition. She received her B.A. in Chemistry from Queens College, with magna cum laude honors, dean’s list and was a member of the Honor Society, Beta Delta Chi. She was also a lab assistant in the biochemistry laboratory of Distinguished Professor, Robert Bittman Ph.D., who had received post-doctoral training at the Max Planck Institute with Nobel Laureate, Manfred Eigen. Ms. Waybourn attended New York University Graduate School Master’s Degree program in Chemistry as a Teaching Fellow Scholar and at New York University she was the instructor of the chemistry laboratory class for pre-medical students; she received the highest final examination mark in Advanced Physical Chemistry in the graduate degree program. She is a trained scientist and was admitted as an attorney to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office passing its specialized bar examination.

Kathleen has vast experience in personal injury litigation including but not limited to medical malpractice, traumatic brain injury, and toxic tort litigation. She won all infant lead paint poisoning/medical malpractice dispositive motions as well as Appellate Division emergency applications upon oral argument. Ms. Waybourn wrote and argued appeals at the Second Department and First Department of the Supreme Court of New York State as well as the New York State Court of Appeals. Throughout her career, she won six figure verdicts and settlements and as a member trial teams won seven and eight figure verdicts.

Ms. Waybourn is a former member of the New York County Lawyers Association and Women’s Rights Committee as well as President of its Legislative Subcommittee and received Certificates of Appreciation for Community Service for volunteering at the Homeless Men’s Shelter Project and the Genter Discrimination Clinic at the New York County Bar Association. She was elected to Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Law, of American Women, in America, and in the World.

Admission to Practice

New York
United States Supreme Court
United States District Court: Southern District of New York
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States Patent and Trademark Office