Kathryn (“Kara”) L. Bailey is an attorney focusing on employment, employee benefits and civil rights litigation.

After graduating cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 2005, Kara was selected as a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs for the Bay Area. While in San Francisco, she appealed to City Hall for a comprehensive Joint Emergency Disaster Plan for the region on behalf of Firefighters’ Local 798 and the Building and Construction Trades Council. She also analyzed the stability of Asian municipal bond markets for a prominent West Coast mutual fund.

Kara returned to her beloved Rust Belt and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2009. While in law school, she served the legal needs of low-income clients as a clerk for both the Pediatric Advocacy Initiative and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

Kara held positions as a Senior Judge for the Legal Writing Department and Research Assistant for the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, where she analyzed corporate compliance with RICO and SEC securities investigations. She also had the privilege of editing a book on medieval Icelandic legal systems and weaponry.

Before joining Stember Feinstein Doyle Payne & Kravec, Kara worked as a Dean’s Fellow at the Human Trafficking Project, comparing European restitution systems to that of the United States in an effort to secure more money for victims of prostitution rings.

Kara lives in Pittsburgh with her faithful beagle, Charlie. She serves as an adjunct facilitator for Coro Pittsburgh’s Women in Leadership program in the spring and attends as many Michigan football games as possible in the fall.