Katie Bond

Katie Bond provides FTC and FDA regulatory counseling and litigation support to a variety of clients in consumer products including dietary supplements, food, weight loss products, cosmetics, CBD products and sports equipment. She focuses her practice primarily on advertising and food and drug law, with an emphasis on risk analysis. Katie advises her clients on matters such as: new media, "green" marketing, health benefit claims, "Made in the USA" claims, and the use of third-party consumer, celebrity and expert endorsements in advertising and marketing. 

She has experience handling complex Federal Trade Commission and state investigations, in addition to assisting clients with consumer class action defense and initiating and responding to self-regulatory challenges before the National Advertising Division. Katie has also represented a major trade group in filing amicus briefs in support of defendants in false advertising class actions in several courts in California, including the Ninth Circuit

• Author, "FTC Shouldn't Try To Protect Consumers In Foreign Countries", Law 360, March 13, 2020

• Quoted, “Regulatory Lawyers Assess FTC in Republican Administration, Impact on Dietary Supplements,” Natural Products Insider, April 19, 2019

• Co-author, "Regulators, Not Private Plaintiffs, Should Judge Substantiation for Consumer-Product Health Claims," WLF Legal Backgrounder, November 3, 2017
• Quoted, “Trump Picks Antitrust Lawyer to Head FTC, Leaving an Uncertain Impact on Consumer Protection,” Natural Products Insider, November 2, 2017
• Co-author, "Commercial-Speech Regulations Must Be No More Extensive Than Necessary," Washington Legal Foundation, July 28, 2017
• Featured, “Lawyers: Republican-Led FTC Positive Sign for Dietary Supplements,” Natural Products Insider, January 26
• Co-author, "The NAD: A Force in Shaping Food and Dietary Supplement Advertising," Food and Drug Law Institute Update, November 2016
• Co-author, "Tracing FTC's Line on Commercial Speech: What Makes an Ad an Ad and Why Does It Matter?" Food and Drug Law Journal - Volume 71 Number 2, June 2016
• Co-author, "Holiday Wrapping Papers: FTC Wraps Up 2015 with Native Advertising Guidance," Lexology, December 23, 2015
• Co-author, "Courting Conflict: How a Ninth Circuit Preemption Decision Undermines FDA Enforcement Discretion," Washington Legal Foundation, August 2015
• Author, "FDA, Social Media, and Health Claims," Nutritional Outlook, May 7, 2014
• Author, "Ravioli Trees and Tortellini Bushes: What Should Courts Expect from the Reasonable Consumer When it Comes to 'Natural' Claims?" FDLI Food and Drug Policy Forum, January 29, 2014
• Author, "Food and Consumer Health Product Claims Substantiation: A Comprehensive Guide," Food and Drug Law Institute, December 2013
• Author, "Foreign Territory: Dietary Supplement Clinical Trials Conducted Abroad," Nutritional Outlook, April 12, 2012
• Contributor, "Can We Say That? A Practical Guide to Substantiating Claims for Food and Consumer Health Products," Food and Drug Law Institute Monograph, Vol. 2, No. 3, January 2011
• Author, "Ingredient Testing for Food and Supplement Advertising Claims: Keeping Up with an Evolving Standard," Antitrust Health Care Chronicle, Vol. 24, No. 1, October 2010
• Author, "Beating the Heat: What Food & Supplement Marketers Need to Know About the FTC's Summer of Litigation," Viewpoints on FDA: Enforcement, October 2009  
• Author, "Dietary Supplement Labeling and Advertising Claims: Are Clinical Studies on the Full Product Required?" Food and Drug Law Journal, Vol. 64, No. 1, 2009
• Author, "Ads Can Do the Body Good," Legal Times, September 8, 2008
• Contributor, "New Standards, Heightened Enforcement, and Increased Litigation: Managing the New Legal Risks Facing Food and Dietary Supplement Companies". N.p.: Thomson Reuters Westlaw; Aspatore. N. page. Print., 2012
• Contributor, ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Consumer Protection Law Developments, 2009

• Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers Rising Star - Consumer Law, Food and Drugs, 2014 - 2016
• Recommended in the US Legal 500 for Marketing & Advertising