Katherine E. Bavoso is a partner in the firm's Harrisburg office.  She concentrates her practice exclusively in the defense of workers' compensation claims for carriers, third party administrators and self-insured employers.  With over seventeen years of experience, she has practiced before most of the judges statewide, the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board and Commonwealth Court.

Ms. Bavoso is rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell for the highest level of professional excellence and ethical standards.  She was listed as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2007, 2010, and 2012-2017.  She was chosen as a Select Lawyer in 2014 and a Local Legal Leader by Harrisburg Magazine in 2016.

Ms. Bavoso is an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and was named Chair of its Workers' Compensation Section in May, 2019.  She also sits on the Certification Committee, Membership Committee and Stanley Siegel County Bar Award Committee.  She is also a member of the Dauphin County Bar Association.

Ms. Bavoso has presented at numerous seminars including the Pennsylvania Bureau Conference, Tough Problems in Workers' Compensation, and Best Practices in Workers' Compensation.

She was named a Lawyer of Distinction in the practice of Workers' Compensation for 2019 and as one of Pennsylvania's "Top 10" Workers' Compensation Attorneys for 2019.

Ms. Bavoso received her B.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Florida in 1999 and her J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University in 2002.  She was a member of Environmental Law Review, as well as both the appellate and trial moot court boards.  While at Dickinson, she clerked for the Honorable Geoffrey Berry of the Ninth Judicial District in Goshen, New York.  She also clerked for a small insurance defense firm in Harrisburg.

Her outside interests include cheering on the Florida Gators and the U.S. Women's Soccer team, and playing in the Harrisburg Area Women's Soccer League.

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