Katie M. (Derrig) Rios

Katie Rios is an associate in the firm's Litigation Practice Group. Katie's practice focuses on general commercial litigation matters, labor and employment, insurance defense, and lawsuits brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). She has experience researching and drafting memoranda on complex matters, including for an immigration asylum appeal in the Ninth Circuit. She also has experience publishing case notes regarding ERISA litigation.

While in law school, Katie served as Editor-in-Chief of the Arizona Law Review. She was also a student attorney for the Domestic Violence Law Clinic at the University of Arizona, where she assisted clients in matters relating to domestic violence and abuse, including advice and counsel for divorce proceedings and representation for contested Order of Protection hearings. Prior to her time as a student attorney, Katie served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Lynnette C. Kimmins of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, where she drafted trial and court orders and report and recommendation summaries on prisoner petitions for habeas corpus.