Katherine Rumer

Overview

Katherine is an associate in Linklaters’ litigation, arbitration and investigations practice. She represents clients in complex commercial and white-collar criminal matters, including at trial. Previously, Katherine served as a judicial law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She has experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants, and has been involved in class action litigation, multidistrict litigation and enforcement investigations. Katherine also has significant experience with issues of transnational law. 

Prior to attending Georgetown University Law Center, Katherine graduated from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and was the recipient of a Fulbright grant.

Katherine speaks Spanish and is conversational in Portuguese and Greek.

Work Highlights

• Multinational healthcare company: representing plaintiff asserting claims of tortious interference with contract and deceptive trade practices.
• Multinational financial services company: representing company in multidistrict data breach litigation.
• National medical device company: defended company against False Claims Act allegations.
• Former CEO of publicly traded biopharmaceutical company: defended against securities fraud, wire fraud and insider trading charges brought by the Department of Justice, including at multiweek trial.
• Multiple bank executives: advised in connection with SEC enforcement investigation.
• Pro bono: representing individual in § 1983 discriminatory policing practices case, along with the ACLU Justice Lab, including at trial.
• Pro bono: representing individual in asylum application process.
• Pro bono: represented U.S. Military veteran in connection with appeal to upgrade discharge status.