Kate Franklin

Kate Franklin
General information
Occupation	Associate at Parsons & Associates
Status	Alive
Relationship information
Children	Unnamed children
Parents	Lyle Hewes (father) †
Siblings	Patty Hewes (half-sister)
Other family	Michael Hewes (nephew) †
Series information
Seasons	5
First appearance	Have You Met The Eel Yet?
Last appearance	But You Don't Do That Anymore
Episode count	9
Portrayed by	Janet McTeer

Kate Franklin is a recurring character on Season 5 of Damages.

A former colleague of Patty Hewes, Kate Franklin aims to take on Patty by working for Ellen Parsons. Her knowledge of Patty's practice makes her particularly valuable to Ellen. She is also Patty's sister on their father's side, therefore passionate about having Patty and their father make amends, not only as a lawyer, but also as a family member.

Background

Kate's father was Lyle Hewes. Sharing a father, she was the half-sister of Patty Hewes.

Kate was a lawyer and former colleague of Patty Hewes. She took on Patty in one case in 1987, with her client being their father, Lyle Hewes. She lost the case in which Patty and her mother sued Lyle for "everything he's worth". She was said to have balls for having taken on a case against the renowned Patty Hewes.

She took a hiatus from her law career for several decades to raise her children.

Series

When her youngest child left for college, Kate returned to her profession in law. She approached Ellen Parsons for a job as her first associate at Parsons & Associates. She became an asset to the firm, as she was competent, well informed, a hard worker, and loyal to Ellen. Franklin worked as an associate on the case in which the firm represented Channing McClaren, who was being sued by Hewes & Associates on behalf of Rachel Walling, whose mother, Naomi Walling, was thought to have committed suicide because of events that occurred after Naomi leaked information to McClaren's whistle blowing website.

While working on the McClaren case, Franklin was still representing Lyle Hewes, who was on his death bed. When approaching Patty Hewes on Lyle's behalf failed, she then approached Patty's son, Michael Hewes, in an effort to get one of them to sign off on Lyle's land before he died.