Kate Falkenstien

When Kate Falkenstien was in middle school, her theater teacher changed her life. He introduced her to speech and debate and while she wasn’t great at first, he kept encouraging her. Debate became a huge influence in her life and she continued honing her skills in high school and college. Before she knew it, she realized she might want to be a lawyer.
After a college internship boss also pointed out that her personality might be a good fit as a lawyer, Falkenstien decided to register for the LSAT at the last second and now with a decade of legal expertise under her belt, she’s living out her dream as a partner for Blue Peak Law Group.
Falkenstien is an accomplished intellectual property lawyer who regularly litigates around the country against the nation’s biggest law firms and companies, and has won hundreds of millions of dollars for her clients. In the past several years, she has been involved in some major life-changing litigations. One was against Walmart on behalf of a startup company that yielded $222 million in damages for trade secret misappropriation, which was the largest jury verdict in Arkansas history.
“These cases reflect what I love about my job: Holding major companies to account and ensuring they treat the smaller companies of the world fairly,” she said.
Falkenstien joined Blue Peak Law Group in 2022 just a few months after it was founded. The firm is completely remote and partners are spread across the country from California to New York.
“It has been important to me to prove that a remote law firm can work, because I wanted to make it possible for myself and other talented lawyers to live in smaller cities while still working on the country’s highest-profile cases,” she said. “Running a law firm entirely remotely has its challenges, but it also allows us access to the best talent no matter where they live, and it keeps costs down for us and our clients.”
Falkenstien said her overarching philosophy is one of pragmatism.
“I recognize that I am just one small part of a very big world, and I may not have the power as an individual to make radical or systemic change,” she said. “But I do have the power to work within existing systems to make the world a better place. The thing I like most about law is that it forces anyone, no matter how powerful, to answer for their actions. I may not always be able to win for my clients (although I certainly try), but I can always give them their chance to be heard.”
Outside of her legal work, Falkenstien serves on the board of the charity One for the World, which encourages students and young professionals to donate 1% of their income to global health charities in the world’s poorest countries.
“I am passionate about using my privilege to help people in extreme poverty, and One for the World helps spread the message about how much good we all have the power to do; it only takes about $3,000 of malaria nets to save a life! I learned that statistic in college, and it became a major influence in my life. I realized that, simply by working a normal office job and making donations, I could save lives.”
She also has experience serving as a 2025 moderator of a panel on trade secrets at the Intellectual Property Business Congress global conference.
Looking at her future, Falkenstien is excited about what’s ahead.
“I am a talented lawyer with an entrepreneurial spirit that led me to leave the stability of a big-city, traditional law firm and instead join a smaller boutique, where I use my skills to hold bigger companies to account when they mistreat smaller ones,” she said. “I feel very lucky to get to raise my family in Boise, and I am excited to continue to develop my career here.”