About Katherine
Katherine Grout is an attorney with Copenbarger & Copenbarger, LLP and leads the Business, Tax, and Advanced Planning department. She serves clients throughout California from the San Jose office. She focuses her practice on business law, corporate transactions, commercial contracts, employment compliance, and intellectual property law, as well as assisting on trust and estate matters, helping individuals and business clients navigate complex legal requirements with clear, practical guidance.
Katherine regularly assists clients with business formation and compliance, buy-sell agreements, contract drafting and review, employment law essentials, intellectual property portfolios, planning, and protection, and legal risk mitigation strategies. Coming from working in-house at companies in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, she takes a business-minded and client-centered approach to her work, prioritizing communication, responsiveness, and tailored solutions that align with her clients’ goals and needs.
Katherine graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2018, where she also focused on intellectual property, data privacy compliance, and business law, earning the law school’s High Tech Law Certificate, Corporate Specialization, with Honors, spending a semester studying international business law in Shanghai and serving as the Editor-In-Chief of the High Tech Law Journal, Vol. 34, a top 5 nationally recognized legal journal for technology. Katherine has been certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals for her mastery in data privacy laws and regulations in the United States and Europe since 2018. Katherine was admitted to the California State Bar in 2019.
Personal
Outside of her legal practice, Katherine enjoys camping with her family, volunteering in Yosemite National Park and nature preserves throughout the Bay Area. She also enjoys training her dogs in agility, tricks, and obedience, throwing pottery, painting, and traveling whenever possible.
Practice Areas / Responsibilities
Katherine supports the firm’s Business and Commercial Law, Business Formation, and Trust & Estate departments, with responsibilities that include:
- Business formation and entity planning
- Corporate transactions, buy-sell agreements, mergers and acquisitions
- Commercial contract drafting, review, and negotiation
- Employment law compliance and risk management
- Trademark, copyright, and trade secret intellectual property planning and protection
- Legal advising for startups and small businesses
- Trust and estate legal matters assistance
- General counsel services and ongoing legal support
Professional Qualifications
- Juris Doctor, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Member, State Bar of California (Admitted 2019)
- Member, California Lawyers Association – Business Law Section
- Certified Information Privacy Professional – US, International Association of Privacy Professionals (since 2018)
- Certified Information Privacy Professional – EU, International Association of Privacy Professionals (since 2018)
