KATHRYN JOHNSON

Email: kathryn@fhbzlaw.com
Office: (509) 662-9602

Katie’s practice focuses on business advising, tax planning, and estate planning for individuals, families, and businesses. She provides thoughtful guidance across a wide range of industries, helping clients with business formation, operations, and management; complex wealth planning; tax strategies for individuals and businesses; estate and trust administration; and probate disputes and resolutions.

Katie earned her J.D. at Gonzaga University School of Law and her LL.M. in Taxation from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she specialized in corporate transactions. After completing her education, Katie launched her legal career in Boise, Idaho, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, complex tax planning, and tax controversy. She maintains active licenses to practice law in Washington and Idaho.

Katie and her husband, Skye, live in Leavenworth, Washington. She enjoys using her tax expertise to support the strategic, innovative, and generous goals of her clients and fellow community members who make this region so special.

EDUCATION

  • Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 2024

  • Gonzaga University School of Law, J.D., 2023

  • Gonzaga University, MA in Organizational Leadership, 2023

  • University of Puget Sound, BA in Science, Technology and Society, 2020

PUBLICATIONS

  • COVID-19 and Corporate Social Responsibility: Business Responses to the Pandemic in the Inland Northwest. Montana Law Review/University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law - April 22, 2021

Bar Admissions

  • Washington State Bar

  • Idaho State Bar

  • United States Tax Court