Katherine Rumer

Katherine Rumer

Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations Associate, New York

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

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.

Professional experience

Before law school, Katherine was a Junior Professional Associate at the World Bank Group, then worked on anticorruption and rule of law matters as a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico. During her time at Georgetown Law, Katherine interned at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and at a major law firm in Colombia. She was also a Summer Associate at another international law firm.

Education and qualifications

Katherine received her Juris Doctor cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Global Law Scholar, an Institute of International Economic Law Fellow, and a CALI Award recipient. While at Georgetown, she was an Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law, as well as a member of the Barristers’ Council (Alternative Dispute Resolution Division), the Policy Clinic, and the Guantanamo Observers Program.

Katherine holds a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude in International Politics from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.