Overview
Caroline Reinwald represents individuals, businesses and government entities in all stages of litigation. Her practice focuses on complex business cases and appeals, and she has litigated cases for clients that include leading universities, hospitals, a national health care provider and multinational manufacturing company.
In her appellate practice, Caroline has co-authored merits and amicus briefs and represented clients before the Fourth Circuit, North Carolina Supreme Court and North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Caroline previously clerked in Raleigh, North Carolina, for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James Wynn. She uses this experience to inform her strategy for clients facing litigation.
Experience
Litigation
- Secured dismissal of putative class action against a national fast-food restaurant for claims arising from data breach.
- Assisted a pro bono team that secured $500,000 settlement in a landlord-tenant class action.
- Assisted with the discovery and briefing in a North Carolina Business Court case in which the firm client won summary judgment and Daubert motions on key issues, leading to a favorable settlement.
- Represented national health care providers, a Fortune 500 company and national bank in defense and resolution of putative claims by individuals arising from cyberattacks on clients’ data systems.
- Defended a university against claims challenging the constitutionality of North Carolina’s Tort Claims Act.
- Served as trial counsel for a North Carolina hospital in construction litigation.
Appeals
- Successfully represented a national insurance company in an appeal before the North Carolina Supreme Court in a case involving questions of statutory interpretation.
- Co-authored an amicus brief in the North Carolina Court of Appeals on behalf of health care organizations in support of the constitutionality of North Carolina’s noneconomic damages cap.
- Secured discretionary review from the North Carolina Supreme Court on the scope of a medical malpractice statute.
- Represented a local government in a Fourth Circuit appeal concerning governmental immunity.
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Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., with highest honors, 2021; Valedictorian; Order of the Coif; Editor-in-Chief, North Carolina Law Review
University of Alabama, B.A., summa cum laude, 2014
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina
Clerkships
- Law Clerk, The Honorable James Andrew Wynn, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2022-23