Katie Zavadski is an associate attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm's Litigation Department.
From 2024 to 2025, Katie served as a law clerk to the Honorable Eric N. Vitaliano in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. While in law school, Katie served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Diane Gujarati of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and as a summer law clerk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Katie earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the New York University School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review. She was named the winner and best oral advocate of the 2022 Marden Moot Court, a school-wide competition, by a panel of federal appellate judges.
She also participated in NYU Law's Federal Appellate Clinic, where she argued a habeas appeal in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Vanderbilt Medal for service to the NYU School of Law and the Compliance and Enforcement Prize for her work with the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement.
Katie graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in Comparative Religion, cum laude in field, in 2013. She also holds a master's in Religious Studies from New York University. Katie worked as an investigative journalist prior to law school.
Katie is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Capabilities
- Litigation
- Antitrust and Competition
- Appellate and Constitutional Law
- Class Actions
- Law Firm Defense
- Media, Entertainment, and Technology
- National Security
- Product Liability
- Sanctions and Export Enforcement
- Securities Enforcement
- Securities Litigation
- Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance
- Sports Law
- Trials
- White Collar Defense and Investigations
Credentials
Education:
- New York University - 2023 Juris Doctor
- New York University - 2019 Master of Arts
- Harvard University - 2013 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar
Clerkships:
- USDC, Eastern District of New York, Hon. Eric Vitaliano, 2024 - 2025