Katherine Twomey is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins. She is a member of the firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate group.
Ms. Twomey’s experience includes drafting appellate briefs, petitions, and motions in the United States Courts of Appeals and state appellate courts. She has drafted briefs on a variety of issues including preemption, res judicata, justiciability, contract law, antitrust law, the First Amendment, and administrative law and statutory matters concerning the Communications Act, the Clean Air Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Patent Act, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Prior to joining Latham, Ms. Twomey served as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Ms. Twomey also currently serves as a Lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she is teaching a short course titled “Supreme Court Decisionmaking: A Case Study.”