Linda Joy Kattwinkel is Of Counsel in the Firm’s San Francisco office and a member of the Intellectual Property practice group. Ms. Kattwinkel is a visual artist. Her law practice focuses on copyright, trademark, and visual artists’ rights. Before her law career, Ms. Kattwinkel worked for thirteen years as a graphic artist in editorial, corporate, and advertising design. She continues to make art at her studio in San Francisco. Her artwork has been shown in more than thirty-five museum and gallery exhibitions, and has received several juror’s awards. Examples of her work can be seen here.
While in law school, Ms. Kattwinkel co-founded, edited, and created the logo and book design for the Hastings Women’s Law Journal, and also gave birth to her son. She co-founded the support group Mothers in Law, and published an article with her artwork, On Motherhood and Working, 3 Hastings Women’s LJ1 (1992). She externed with the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California. Upon graduation, she served as a long-term judicial clerk to the Honorable Claudia Wilken, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California. She practiced law with Owen, Wickersham & Erickson for thirty years before joining Buchalter in 2025.
Ms. Kattwinkel served as a neutral on the ADR panel of the Northern District for 14 years, and continues to mediate disputes through California Lawyers for the Arts.