Kate Shoemaker is an associate and litigation attorney with Foley & Lardner LLP. She is a member of the firm's Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice.
Kate has experience in a wide array of litigation matters, including insurance coverage and ERISA disputes, trade secret litigation, and general business litigation. She has also assisted in client counseling and internal investigations related to national security and international affairs issues involving anti-money laundering (AML), arms controls (ITAR), economic sanctions (OFAC), dual-use exports (EAR), and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Kate devotes her pro bono practice to asylum and LGBT rights work.
Kate was a summer associate with Foley in 2014. Prior to joining Foley, she served as a legal intern for The Central American Resource Center, providing supervised legal services to low-income immigrants. Kate also worked as a program analyst contracted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, conducting intensive fiscal and regulatory monitoring of federally-funded programs. As an undergraduate, Kate was the volunteer coordinator for a state delegate’s campaign, training and recruiting volunteers in campaign activities.
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Kate is an active member of the Associate Leadership Board of Public Counsel, the nation’s largest pro bono law firm, and a member of the advisory committee of the Young Lawyers Division of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. She has also represented multiple asylum seekers before USCIS and adoptive parents in adoption proceedings.
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Kate has a conversational knowledge of Spanish.