Kate Hatfield

Kate Hatfield is a partner at Hatfield & Hatfield, P.A., the two-attorney Jacksonville injury firm she runs with her husband, John Hatfield, from an office on East Forsyth Street downtown. Her connection to accident work is unusually personal: she grew up around her father’s chiropractic office and his law firm, working in both from her high school years, which gave her an early view of injuries from the patient’s side as well as the legal side.

Admitted to The Florida Bar in 2007, Kate first built her own practice concentrating on Florida’s Lemon Law before returning to the accident and injury work she had grown up around. In 2016 she rebranded the practice as Hatfield & Hatfield, P.A., reflecting her partnership with John. Today the firm focuses on car, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian and bicycle crashes along with slip and fall claims, and its client reviews repeatedly single out Kate’s negotiating with insurers and the firm’s frequent case updates.

She holds a B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida and a J.D. from Widener University School of Law. In addition to her 2007 Florida admission, she was admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida the same year and to the Minnesota bar in 2013.

Kate is a strong fit for injury victims who want to deal directly with a named partner at a deliberately small firm – the kind of office where the attorney, not a case manager, returns the call. The firm offers a free, no-obligation case evaluation, charges nothing unless it recovers money, and emphasizes keeping clients informed at every stage, a theme that comes up consistently in its published client testimonials.