Cathy Roe is an attorney with experience in complex litigation matters. Her practice with F&S includes the energy, water, transportation and telecommunications industries, and related business and environmental issues.  Cathy’s practice is also focused on insolvency, commercial bankruptcy litigation and navigating creditors’ rights issues, including preference litigation and other related subjects.

Prior to joining F&S in 2023 Cathy was an associate at a Southern California law firm, where her practice focused on civil litigation. She also worked in-house as associate legal counsel for an Orange County-based company.

Cathy is a graduate of UC College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). Prior to attending law school, Cathy earned her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in English at UCLA.

She is a member of the State Bar of California.

• • Served as a volunteer counselor advising low-income clients on COVID-19- related matters
  • Served on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the Consumer Attorneys of California
  • Judicial Extern to the Honorable Kimberly Menninger at the Superior Court of Orange County
  • Served as a Research Advocacy Intern, drafting advocacy statements regarding international crimes of aggression for submission to the United States Human Rights Counsel (UNHRC) and arguing before the UNHRC in Geneva
  • Represented clients as a student attorney with the Refugee & Human Rights Clinic at UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings).
  • Counseled clients through the Workers’ Rights Clinic at UC Law SF
  • Senior Articles Editor, Hastings International & Comparative Law Review, 2018-2019