Kate Roggio Buck represents clients in an array of commercial, bankruptcy-related, and appellate litigation as well as collegiate sports compliance investigations. Clients seek out her deep understanding of the Delaware trial and appellate courts in retaining her as lead or local counsel in those courts. Her experience extends to matters involving construction, real estate, products liability, directors and officers policies, compliance, creditors’ rights, environmental issues, and financial fraud.
Her bankruptcy work includes representing equipment lessors, landlords, utility providers, railways, vendors, banks, and other parties with interests in complex business reorganizations and liquidations. Kate works closely with clients to develop dispute resolution and litigation strategies tailored to help them achieve their business objectives.
In the NCAA sports compliance space, Kate advises individuals, institutions, and other organizations on compliance with the ever evolving NCAA and state regulations governing collegiate sports (including involving name, image, and likeness (NIL) policies and intercollege Transfer Portal policies), including helping them develop internal policies concerning these regulations or conducting or responding to internal or other compliance investigations.
An active member of McCarter’s Pro Bono Committee, Kate supervises the firms’ collaboration with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. Her other pro bono work includes representing individuals, including children, in child welfare cases, immigration matters, and in animal welfare matters. Kate’s pro bono efforts earned her the McCarter & English “Changing Lives Award” and contributed to McCarter’s Delaware office receiving a Pro Bono Leadership Award from the Delaware State Bar Association.
Kate is a proud member of the firm’s Social Justice Task Force and is Co-Chair of the task force’s Criminal Justice subcommittee. The mission of McCarter’s Social Justice Project is to continually build on its work to dismantle structural racism and combat the impact of racial inequality in its communities.