Kate Talbot, social media expert witness and marketing consultant

Kate Talbot is a social media expert witness and marketing consultant based in San Francisco. She has been retained in 20+ litigation matters by firms including Fish & Richardson, Knobbe Martens, and Seyfarth Shaw, providing expert reports, declarations, and deposition testimony on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, and X. Her opinions draw on extensive hands-on experience developing social media strategy for companies and executives.

Marketing consulting

The consulting work behind the expertise

Kate partners with venture capital funds and startups on brand, content, and social strategy. She has worked with more than a dozen venture funds, including Salesforce Ventures, Wing VC, Flybridge Capital, and Plexo Capital. Her work has driven $20M+ in inbound LP capital, grown a GP into a recognized LinkedIn influencer, and landed fund content trending on X.

This active consulting practice is what keeps her platform knowledge current, a distinction that matters when testimony concerns how these platforms operate today, not five years ago.

Expert witness practice

Expertise built by doing the work

Kate's expert witness practice covers intellectual property, employment, personal injury, criminal defense, insurance defense, and defamation matters in state, federal, and international courts. Attorneys retain her when a case turns on how social media actually works: how content is created and distributed, how influencers are compensated, how platform features function, and how accounts and posts are authenticated.

Her qualifications come from doing the work, not observing it. She ran social media for Virgin America and Kiva, built influencer marketing platforms and programs from the ground up, and wrote Oh Snap! You Can Use Snapchat for Business.

Credentials

Credentials attorneys can verify

LitigationRetained in 20+ litigation matters for firms nationwide, including Fish & Richardson, Knobbe Martens, and Seyfarth Shaw
AuthorOh Snap! You Can Use Snapchat for Business
ArbitrationSworn expert testimony in a JAMS arbitration
PressFormer Senior Forbes Contributor, interviewing Sir Richard Branson, Maria Shriver, Ninja, Kourtney Kardashian, and Addison Rae
CLEInstructor for attorneys through Lawline and LegalEdge
Legal writingContributor, National Law Review
SpeakingCLE co-presenter, NYIPLA Hot Topics in Trademark & Copyright Law
MediaCommentary for CNN, NBC News, BBC, NPR, HuffPost, iHeartRadio, and Nasdaq

Outside the office

Off the record

Kate lives in San Francisco with her husband and their 2-year-old daughter. When she is not writing expert reports or teaching CLEs, she is at Dolores Park with her family, defending her spot in the shade.

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