Kathleen M. McDowell

Ms. McDowell’s ongoing community project has been to expand the Food From the Bar campaign in  Los Angeles and other communities. Food From the Bar is a  multi-week campaign held in the spring in which law firms and legal offices engage in friendly competition to raise funds, donate food, and volunteer at their local Feeding America-affiliated foodbanks. She was a driving force in introducing Food From the Bar to Los Angeles in 2009, and was recognized for her work with the Food From the Bar Chairs’ Award in 2010 and 2017. She remains an active member of the Los Angeles Food From the Bar Steering Committee. She has introduced Food from the Bar to other cities and has spoken to many groups about the campaign.

Ms. McDowell has been a longtime board member of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations (NCWBA) and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA). She has been active in women’s bar associations for many years, having served as president of WLALA, and the president of the NCWBA. Ms. McDowell is a recipient of WLALA’s Distinguished Service Award.

During Ms. McDowell’s legal career, she has represented a range of clients in all aspects of preservation, identification, collection, analysis, production and disposition of electronically stored information. She has extensive experience representing directors, officers, and corporations in shareholder securities and derivative litigation in both state and federal courts. Ms. McDowell has also represented lawyers and law firms in complex civil and regulatory proceedings involving claims of legal malpractice, malicious prosecution and securities law violations.