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Kator, Parks, Weiser & Wright, PLLC: One of the Firms That Took a Federal Firing to the Supreme Court

In February 2025, the Trump White House sent a one-sentence email attempting to remove Cathy Harris from her seat on the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, more than three years before her term was set to expire. Harris sued, and the case — challenging whether a president can remove an independent board member without cause — went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kator, Parks, Weiser & Wright, PLLC (KPWW) is one of four firms representing her, alongside Correia & Puth, Milbank LLP, and the Washington Litigation Group, according to independent reporting from Bloomberg Law and the Washington Post. It’s a genuinely notable case for a federal-employment boutique with an Austin office to have a hand in.

At a Glance: Austin Employment Lawyer Firm Overview

I. A Firm Renamed After Its Co-Manager Left to Join the Federal Government

The firm was previously named Kator, Parks, Weiser & Harris, PLLC. Co-manager Cathy Harris left the firm around 2022 after being confirmed to the Merit Systems Protection Board, at which point the firm’s name changed to reflect attorney Jeremy Wright instead — a detail confirmed by outside bar and litigation records rather than the firm’s own marketing copy. The Austin office is anchored by David Weiser, a Yale Law graduate (1986, Senior Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review) who clerked for Judge William Wayne Justice of the Eastern District of Texas and later served as Assistant General Counsel to Texas Governor Ann Richards, and Jeremy Wright, a University of Texas School of Law graduate who also clerked for Judge Justice before joining the firm.

II. No Board Certification Identified; Mixed Representation Disclosed

Awesome Attorneys did not find a current Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification for either Austin attorney, and does not use “specialist” language for this firm as a result. Readers should also know directly that this firm’s own attorney biography page states its lawyers “have represented employees and employers, both public and private, and individuals and businesses” — meaning KPWW is not a pure employee-side practice like several other firms in this category. Former co-manager Cathy Harris’s own professional history, for instance, included representing federal agencies in addition to individual employees before she left for the MSPB.

III. Practice Concentration: What This Austin Employment Attorney Firm Handles

KPWW’s practice centers on federal-sector employment law: EEOC complaints, MSPB appeals, sexual harassment, veterans’ rights, and sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination claims. The firm has run large federal-sector class actions, including matters involving the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Postal Service’s National Reassessment Process, the FAA, and CBP officers — a scale of federal class-action work distinct from the individual-case practices most other firms in this category run.

IV. Track Record

Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome. The matter below is independently confirmed through extensive outside press and legal-docket coverage, not solely the firm’s own account.

Awesome Attorneys did not identify itemized case results specific to KPWW’s Austin office practice (individual EEOC or MSPB matters); the firm’s public profile is dominated by its role in the large, multi-firm Harris litigation rather than by publicized individual case outcomes.

V. Client Voice

Awesome Attorneys did not identify a substantial, independently posted body of client reviews for this firm on Avvo, Yelp, or Google at the time of writing. As with several federal-sector-focused firms in this category, this appears to reflect the nature of federal-employee representation (often institutional or high-profile matters) rather than a typical local consumer review footprint.

VI. Beyond the Courtroom

David Weiser received the Texas Law Fellowships Excellence in Public Interest Award in 2007 and 2011, sits on the Advisory Council for the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law at the University of Texas Law School, and co-founded the Austin Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society. Jeremy Wright is a member of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and the Austin Bar Association, alongside national organizations including NELA and the ABA.

VII. Recognition

Peer-reviewed and independently conferred credentials: David Weiser’s Texas Monthly Super Lawyer selections in Employment Litigation across ten separate years between 2003 and 2015; Jeremy Wright’s Super Lawyers recognition in Employment Litigation, Class Action/Mass Torts, and Civil Rights. Both are conferred through Thomson Reuters’ peer-review process.

No board certification or marketing-program awards were identified for either Austin attorney at the time of writing.

VIII. The Texas Legal Backdrop

Federal employees follow a different procedural track than private-sector Texas workers: MSPB appeals generally must be filed within 30 days of an adverse action’s effective date, EEO complaints proceed through each federal agency’s internal process before reaching the EEOC, and independent board members like MSPB commissioners can only be removed “for cause” under federal law — the exact statutory question at the center of the firm’s Harris litigation. These deadlines and protections are considerably different from, and often shorter than, the 180-day Texas Workforce Commission deadline private-sector employees use under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (Texas Labor Code Chapter 21).

IX. Awesome Attorneys Assessment: Weighing This Austin Employment Lawyer

KPWW’s clearest strength is genuine involvement in one of the most significant federal-employment law cases currently before the courts, independently confirmed by major outside press coverage rather than resting on the firm’s own account. David Weiser’s decade-plus run of Super Lawyers recognition and deep Texas public-interest law credentials add real weight for a federal-employee client specifically.

The fair caveats: this firm discloses mixed representation history (both employees and employers, and even federal agencies), which distinguishes it from the employee-only firms elsewhere in this category and should factor directly into a prospective client’s decision; and Awesome Attorneys could not identify individual-case results or client reviews specific to routine Austin-office matters, meaning most of what’s independently verifiable about this firm concerns one high-profile case rather than typical day-to-day representation.

X. Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the firm’s own website (katorparks.com), including its Attorneys, Practice Areas, and Resources pages; independent press and legal-docket coverage of Harris v. Bessent/Trump from Bloomberg Law, the Washington Post, Democracy Docket, and the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse; Super Lawyers’ peer-review attorney profiles for David Weiser and Jeremy Wright; and State Bar of Texas attorney records confirming Austin office location. A search for independently posted client reviews did not surface a substantial record. No case results, credentials, or quotes were invented.

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Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Kator, Parks, Weiser & Wright, PLLC prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements clearly labeled as such, but no payment of any kind determines inclusion in, or the content of, this editorial profile. This article is for informational purposes only, does not constitute legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and Kator, Parks, Weiser & Wright, PLLC or Awesome Attorneys.