Kathleen Loucks is a member of the firm's Litigation Practice Group, where she represents both businesses and individuals in a broad variety of litigation matters. Kathleen focuses her practice in the following areas:

• General civil litigation
• Construction litigation
• Medical malpractice and personal injury
  

A former prosecutor and civil litigator for more than six years, Kathleen brings aggressive representation to all of her clients at the state, federal, and appellate levels.

In her civil and construction practice, she represents homeowners with claims against builders. Hellmuth & Johnson has successfully represented hundreds of homeowners in these types of claims. The goal in representing homeowners is to obtain enough money to repair their homes from major construction defects. Kathleen also represents builders and contractors in filing mechanic's liens in an effort to get paid for improvements to real property. She has also been involved in lawsuits against insurance companies by builders and contractors in an effort to obtain insurance coverage.

Kathleen also represents individuals and families injured by medical malpractice and catastrophic injury. The Hellmuth & Johnson medical malpractice/personal injury department has represented a husband and wife who could not have children due to medical malpractice, and was able to obtain a monetary settlement in that matter. The medical malpractice/personal injury group also represents women who have been injured and disfigured in breast reconstruction cases, and individuals who have sustained a brain injury from surgical errors, failure to properly resuscitate and other catastrophic injuries.

Kathleen has been named to the "Rising Star" list by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine, representing the top 2.5% of young attorneys in the State.

She is on the Advisory Board for the Minnesota Innocence Project, a member of the American Bar Association, Minnesota State Bar Association, Hennepin County Bar Association, Minnesota Women Lawyers Association, and the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association. Kathleen is a member of the American Association for Justice and the Minnesota Association of Justice, and she is on the Program Advisory Committee for the Department of Legal Science at the Minnesota School of Business. Furthermore, Kathleen has also taught as an adjunct instructor at Hamline University School of Law and volunteers for Simpson Housing Services and the Hennepin County Project Homeless Connect.

Kathleen is licensed to practice law in the State courts of Minnesota and Iowa, and the U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota. She obtained her J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law and her B.A. from the University of Minnesota.