About Katharine Elizabeth
Katharine Elizabeth Tate built a steady path into law on the West Coast. She earned her bachelor’s degree in History, International Relations and Political Science from Carroll College in 2008 and completed her J.D. at Willamette University College of Law in 2015, where she also received a Certificate in International & Comparative Law.
After law school Tate joined Grable Hantke Law Group as an associate in 2016. She spent that period handling matters tied to property, probate and client-facing practice in a small firm environment. The experience exposed her to transactional work and to the practical demands of estate administration.
In 2019 she opened Tate Law Offices, PLLC. Running her own practice shifted her daily work from team-based tasks to the full scope of client intake, counseling and file management. She represents clients in both Washington and Oregon, and manages cases that arise in each state’s rules and procedures. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar and later joined the Washington State Bar Association when she established her practice across the border.
Tate’s memberships track the areas she most often handles. She belongs to local and state bar sections devoted to real property, probate and trusts. She also maintains ties to divisions that serve solo and small firm practitioners and young lawyers. At the county level she participates in Spokane County Bar Association groups that address elder law, disability and estate planning matters.
Her background in international and comparative law is part of her legal education, though her practice centers on domestic issues that affect aging clients, families settling estates, and owners of residential and commercial real property. Clients turn to her for wills, trusts, probate administration and related real estate matters. She works on planning documents as well as the documents that transfer property after death or through sale.
Colleagues describe her approach as practical and straightforward. She handles the paperwork and court filings that often accompany estate and property matters and guides clients through statutory deadlines and procedural steps. Running a small firm also means she handles the business side of practice: billing, client development and compliance for an office serving regional needs.
She remains active in the American Bar Association and its sections relevant to estate and real property work. Tate currently operates Tate Law Offices, PLLC, serving clients in Washington and Oregon with a practice focused on estate planning, probate and real property matters.
