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Katherine A. Paterno

Paterno Law Offices LLC
7420 S County Line Rd
Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527-7947

(630) 999-3900

Not available

Date Admitted

November 05, 1998

Illinois Registration Status

Active and authorized to practice law

Malpractice Insurance

In annual registration, the attorney reported that the attorney, or the attorney’s firm, maintains malpractice insurance.

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In re Paterno, Katherine A., 2024PR00010
Disposition Censure
Effective Date of Disposition 11/19/2025
End Date of Disposition Not Applicable. Censures and reprimands do not affect the authority of the lawyer to continue to practice law.
Definition of Disposition A censure reflects a determination that the lawyer has engaged in misconduct, but that the violation is not so serious to warrant a sanction that would affect the lawyer’s authority to continue to practice law. As a result, censure does not affect the authority of a lawyer to continue to practice law.
Case Summary Ms. Paterno, who was licensed in 1998, was censured. She notarized a deed containing the signature of her stepbrother and certified under penalty of perjury that her stepbrother had appeared before her to sign the deed. That certification was false, and Ms. Paterno knew it was false, because her stepbrother had died almost two years earlier.
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