A leader among her peers, Katherine has cultivated the ability to quickly develop deep knowledge of complex case facts and deliver creative solutions under pressure in high-stakes litigation. She is currently defending a major engineering, procurement, and construction matter involving claims alleging breach of contract, gross and professional negligence, design claims, and fraud claims in Arkansas Circuit Court arising from a nearly $1 billion agrochemical plant relocation and expansion project. Katherine will serve as the lead trial team associate at the upcoming estimated 10-week jury trial.
As a key member of some of the Firm’s highest-profile cases, her practice includes complex civil and commercial litigation – including serial litigation, multidistrict litigation, class action litigation, and single-site suits. Katherine has experience in construction and engineering disputes, indemnification claims, insurance disputes, family law litigation, environmental litigation, and disputes involving alleged chemical exposures and defective products, and claims under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act. A prolific writer, she has also written an amicus brief for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Katherine has extensive experience in pre-trial work including conducting legal research, drafting and arguing briefings and motions, discovery, expert preparation, and developing direct and cross-examination. She has prepared initial discovery documents (including RFPs/RFAs and responses, privilege logs, production letters, subpoena duces tecum, and engaged in meet-and-confers with opposing counsel regarding discovery disputes); prepared review protocol and directly led outside contract review teams in first, second, and privilege reviews; conducted judicial and expert vetting; argued before circuit and superior court judges in complex commercial litigation and domestic relations litigations; drafted pretrial motions (including motions for summary judgment, motions in limine, and Daubert/Rule 702 motions); and served as first and second chair in corporate witness, fact witness, and expert depositions.
Prior to joining the Firm, Katherine clerked for the Honorable Judge Jennifer M. Anderson of the D.C. Superior Court working on complex civil, felony criminal, and domestic relations matters. Katherine served as a Law Clerk in the Office of Chief Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce Trade Enforcement & Compliance, where she drafted briefs for the Department of Justice defending antidumping and countervailing duty determinations in the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She also served as a Legal Intern at the United Nations in Switzerland where she assessed discrimination claims, contractual disputes, and employee complaints, and prepared official responses in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and best practices guidelines.
Katherine was a Georgetown Law Pro Bono Honoree and received the Institute of International Economic Law WTO Certification for advanced specialization in global trade, alternative dispute resolution, and international litigation. She graduated magna cum laude from St. John’s University with a B.S. in legal studies.
