Felicia Gilbert joined Katz Banks Kumin as a Partner in January 2025. She has built a successful employment practice representing individuals and classes across industries in a wide array of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation matters.
Ms. Gilbert has been nationally recognized for her work and has spoken on a variety of topics related to civil rights and employment law. Ms. Gilbert has been recognized as a Benchmark Litigation Labor & Employment Star. The Profiles in Diversity Journal also recognized her among its Women Worth Watching in Leadership. In 2024, Ms. Gilbert was named a Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyer and recognized on the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers list. She has also been profiled in Bloomberg Law’s “Leading Questions” column. She was also named as one of the YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley “Tribute to Women” honorees in 2024, and was recognized as one of Silicon Valley Business Journal’s “Women of Influence.” Ms. Gilbert was a member of the trial team named 2013 “Attorneys of the Year” in civil rights law by California Lawyer Magazine after representing the family of an unarmed man shot fatally by a police officer in a Section 1983 federal civil rights lawsuit against a California municipality.
Ms. Gilbert serves on the Board of Legal Aid at Work and is a member of the board’s Executive Committee and Recruitment, Nominating & Engagement Committee. Ms. Gilbert also serves on the board of the Impact Fund, a public interest non-profit legal organization, and is a member of its Grant Advisory Committee.
Ms. Gilbert received her law degree from Columbia Law School and earned a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University. While at Columbia Law School, Ms. Gilbert served on the Journal of Law and Social Problems and as a Teaching Fellow on the Columbia Law School Moot Court Editorial Board. As part of Columbia Law School’s Child Advocacy Clinic, she helped design a research protocol for adolescent representation and provided legal assistance to young adults transitioning out of foster care. Before joining Katz Banks Kumin, Ms. Gilbert was a Managing Partner of the San Francisco office of Sanford Heisler Sharp, and was an Associate at Morrison & Foerster, LLP.