Katten Muchin Rosenman CEO and leadership

I am proud to be Katten's first Chief Executive Officer. Katten is a dynamic law firm, built on the collaboration, expertise, and energy of our people to deliver the highest quality legal services.

Leading this well-regarded and successful law firm draws on the many professional and interpersonal skills I have developed, first as an investigator of securities fraud cases while at the SEC, next as an associate at Kramer Levin, and later as a partner and practice group leader at Katten. There are many challenges facing large law firms during this disruptive transitional period in their development. I help foster innovation in our approach and delivery of legal services, developing and implementing strategic changes that will lead to our continued growth and development as a premier law firm.

I believe in a straightforward and honest approach to management and the importance of providing a transparent environment that fosters loyalty and binds our professionals to one another.

Specialties: IT Architecture, mergers and acquisitions, datacenter consolidation, litigation support, organizational change, help desk development, application development, IT metric development

Daphne Pendleton is a Chief Administrative Officer at Katten Muchin Rosenman.

Jennifer is a student Georgetown McDonough School of Business graduating in 2022 and is based in Washington D.C. Metro Area. She is a Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at Katten Muchin Rosenman. Jennifer has worked as Director, Media Relations & Corporate Communication at Cablevision; Founder and President at Fresh Entertaining & Events; and Chief Marketing Officer at Dickstein Shapiro LLP. She works or has worked as Attorney at WilmerHale. Jennifer attended Rutgers University.

Former AmLaw 50 firm attorney with over nine years of professional development, diversity and inclusion, legal recruiting/talent acquisition, project management, curriculum design and career counseling experience. Fully knowledgeable about current trends in professional skills program development, law firm diversity, the lateral/entry-level recruiting market, training, on-boarding/integration and mentoring initiatives. Active member of NALP, having held a number of leadership positions, author of NALP Bulletin articles and presenter at several NALP Annual Conferences, most recently in Seattle, Washington in 2014. Current board member of Washington Area Legal Recruitment Administrators Association (WALRAA).

Leslie D. Minier is a Partner, Chief Diversity Partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman.

Andrew 'Andy' Sprogis is a Chief Innovation Officer at Katten Muchin Rosenman and is based in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked as Director of Business Planning at Katten Muchin Rosenman and Executive Director at Katten Muchin Rosenman. Andrew works or has worked as CHAIRMAN at Easterseals. He studied at Northwestern University between 1987 and 1991 and University of Chicago between 1994 and 1996.

Jean Varak is a Partner, Chief Professional Standards Officer at Katten Muchin Rosenman.

I am proud to be Katten's first Chief Executive Officer. Katten is a dynamic law firm, built on the collaboration, expertise, and energy of our people to deliver the highest quality legal services.

Leading this well-regarded and successful law firm draws on the many professional and interpersonal skills I have developed, first as an investigator of securities fraud cases while at the SEC, next as an associate at Kramer Levin, and later as a partner and practice group leader at Katten. There are many challenges facing large law firms during this disruptive transitional period in their development. I help foster innovation in our approach and delivery of legal services, developing and implementing strategic changes that will lead to our continued growth and development as a premier law firm.

I believe in a straightforward and honest approach to management and the importance of providing a transparent environment that fosters loyalty and binds our professionals to one another.