Katie Tipper-McWhorter

PARTNER

Katie Tipper-McWhorter is a Partner at León Cosgrove Jiménez, LLP and leads the firm’s Houston office. A Houston native, she is a trial lawyer who handles high stakes commercial disputes in the energy, construction, financial services, real estate, and data center sectors, as well as high profile trust and estate litigation. She represents plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts and in domestic and international arbitration​.

Katie has been an advocate since her first year of practice and has tried cases to juries, to the bench, and in arbitration. Her energy practice spans upstream, midstream, and renewables, where she represents producers, developers, and investors in contract, supply, and project disputes. Her construction and real estate work covers disputes over industrial facilities and land acquisitions, including data center sites. She prosecutes and defends trade secret misappropriation, NDA, and non-compete claims. She handles financial services litigation, including representing large financial institutions in fraud, lending, and other commercial disputes. ​

Katie has litigated across forums, from Texas state and federal courts to arbitrations before the ICC, the AAA, and other international tribunals.​

She also represents trustees, beneficiaries, and families in high profile trust and estate disputes, including fiduciary-duty claims, trust-administration fights, and contests over family business interests. She is recognized for that work in The Best Lawyers in America.​

Katie grew up in Houston and is, by her count, at least a fourth-generation Houstonian. She attended Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart, where she remains an active alumna. Katie is dedicated to serving the community she loves. She maintains an active pro bono practice helping families complete adoptions. With her husband, she also established an endowed fund at the University of Houston Law Center to support law students’ mental health.​