Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Employment and Labor

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Kathryn Scott is a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. Kathryn focuses her practice on employer-side labor and employment law, including traditional labor, compliance counseling, best practices, employee policies, and human resources training. She represents businesses in disputes alleging wage and hour violations, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and similar claims.

Kathryn graduated with honors from the Washington University School of Law, where she was the chief notes editor of the Washington University Law Review. In law school, she served as an intern for the Honorable Raymond W. Gruender of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Kathryn also worked in the legal department of Nestle Purina PetCare Company, where she collaborated with in-house counsel on employment matters and was a summer associate at the firm’s St. Louis office in 2016.

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT & HONORS Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), Pathfinder, 2024 Super Lawyers, Rising Star (Missouri and Kansas), 2023 Make-A-Wish Missouri, Wish Granter, 2015-Present Saint Louis University, Interviewer for Presidential Scholarship, 2011-Present Washington University School of Law, Excellence in Oral Advocacy Award, 2015 Wiley Rutledge Moot Court, Outstanding Brief Award, 2015 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis The Missouri Bar American Bar Association