Roarke’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, international litigation, and appeals. In the area of state sponsored terrorism litigation, he has prosecuted claims that have resulted in judgments totaling in excess of billions of dollars against foreign states, such as Cuba, Iran and the Republic of Sudan.
As an appellate advocate, Roarke has drafted briefs in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court at both the certiorari and merits levels, in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, and Eleventh Circuits, and Florida’s District Courts of Appeal. Roarke has presented oral argument in numerous appeals before Florida’s District Courts of Appeal and in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh and Second Circuits.
Roarke was nominated in the international litigation category of the South Florida Daily Business Review’s Most Effective Lawyers awards in 2016 and 2020, winning in 2020.