Kate focuses her practice on complex litigation. Kate represents clients in complex business, real estate, and environmental disputes in state and federal courts across the country. She has significant recent experience in real estate receivership matters and commercial real estate litigation, and has represented numerous public and private companies in business tort and contract disputes. Kate also has defended utility companies in Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act lawsuits.

Kate counsels clients in all phases of litigation, including trial preparation and appeals. She routinely advises on issues relating to fact and expert discovery. 

Kate participates in the firm’s pro bono initiative. She has represented clients in Medicaid and Social Security disability benefit appeals and redetermination hearings, veterans in discharge upgrade applications, and a non-profit organization in a landlord-tenant dispute.

Kate is admitted to practice before all state courts and all federal district courts in North Carolina.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Duke University School of Law, Editorial Board, Duke Law Journal, 2017

BA, Cornell University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2012

• Rule 45 Subpoena Practice in Expert Discovery: Some Pointers, American Bar Association
• Considerations When Using a Professor as an Expert Witness, American Bar Association
• Article III standing still proving to be a formidable defense to environmental citizen suits, Westlaw Today
• Five Tips for Conducting Background Research on Expert Witnesses, American Bar Association
• Supplement or Supplant? Recent Judicial Decisions Seemingly Endorse Citizen-Suit Role Beyond Clean Water Act’s Intent., Washington Legal Foundation