For fifteen years, Katharine Manning advised the Justice Department on its most challenging victim issues in cases ranging from terrorism to large-scale financial fraud to child exploitation. Some of the cases she advised on include the Boston Marathon bombing, the Pulse nightclub and South Carolina church shootings, Charlottesville, Enron, Madoff, 9/11, and the federal case against Larry Nassar, the U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team doctor. See below for an illustrative list of Kate’s training and policy experience.
Now, Kate uses her expertise to help government, educational, and corporate institutions prepare for and respond to the challenges they face involving employees and members of the public who may be in trauma, from claims of sexual harassment or assault to large-scale impacts like data theft and workplace violence.
A member of the California bar, Kate also served as an attorney with the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop in San Francisco, where she represented Fortune 500 companies in class actions, insurance, and media cases. She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Trainings
Kate has provided training on legal obligations and best practices when working with victims to the audiences and in the courses as follows:
- United States Department of Justice
- United States Attorneys’ Conference
- Criminal Division
- Tax Division
- Drug Enforcement Agency
- Bureau of Prisons
- Civil Rights Division
- Civil Division Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section
- Environment and Natural Resources Division
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- More than forty United States Attorneys’ Offices
- Solicitors of the United States Department of Interior
- U.S. Postal Inspection Service
- Mississippi Sheriffs’ Association Annual Conference
- VOCA Administrators’ Annual Conference
- Indian Nations Conference
- Four Corner Indian Country Conference, plenary
- Tribal Nations Leadership Conference
- National Symposium for Victims of Crime, plenary
- Crimes Against Children Conference
- Courses at the Justice Department’s National Advocacy Center
- Federal Victim Assistance in Indian Country Summit
- National Victim Witness Coordinator Conference
- Human Resources Officers Conference
- Human Trafficking Seminar
- Victim Assistance Program Management
- Introduction to Violent Crimes and Firearm Prosecutions
- Basic White Collar Seminar
- Human Trafficking in Indian Country
- Federal Criminal Practice Seminar
- Seminar for Financial Litigation Attorneys
- Webinars for the Justice Department
- The Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act
- Working with Elderly Victims
- Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings
- Access to Images under the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Restitution Act
- Restitution in Human Trafficking Cases
Policy
Kate created federal policy regarding victims as follows:
- Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance (2011 and 2005)
- Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights Working Group Report to Congress (2018)
- Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States (2013-2017)
- EPA/ENRD Victim Assistance Team
- American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence Working Group
- Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, Co-Chair of the Victims’ Rights Committee
- Child Pornography Victim Assistance Working Group
- Federal Victims in Indian Country Working Group, Co-Chair
- Working Group to Establish Procedures for the Child Pornography Victim Reserve
Kate wrote the following articles:
- Expanding Victim Rights, USA Bulletin January 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, Emerging Issues in Federal Prosecution
- Guardians ad Litem and Victim Counsel in Cases with Child Victims and Witnesses, USA Bulletin July 2015, Vol. 63, No. 4, Project Safe Childhood
- The Conundrum of Victim Rights in Conspiracy Cases, USA Bulletin July 2013, Vol. 61, No. 4, Prosecuting Criminal Conspiracies