Caroline has represented regional businesses, sole proprietors and individuals. Her practice involves complex litigation matters, class actions, employment disputes and administrative claims. She has successfully resolved lawsuits involving claims for unfair business practices, breach of partnership agreements, disability discrimination, racial discrimination and harassment, sexual harassment and discrimination and Form I-9 noncompliance, among others. While she primarily practices in state court, she also handles cases in federal court and before California’s administrative enforcement agencies, as well as arbitrations and mediations. Caroline is involved in all phases of the litigation process including pretrial pleading and motion practice, discovery and depositions, expert disclosure and trial.

Caroline’s trial experience includes second-chairing a one-week jury trial in federal court resulting in a defense verdict in a race discrimination claim against a multi-state grocer; successfully defending against the subsequent appeal of the same action; second-chairing a two-week bench trial in superior court resulting in a defense verdict in a disability discrimination, retaliation and failure to accommodate case; resolving a sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation action on the eve of trial based in part on successful motions in limine; obtaining a defense verdict in a multi-week jury trial alleging 14 causes of action including disability discrimination, failure to reasonably accommodate, failure to engage in the interactive process, race discrimination, failure to provide meal and rest periods, failure to pay overtime, failure to pay final wages at termination, violation of the Kin Care law, invasion of privacy and wrongful termination in violation of public policy.

Caroline is deeply involved in the Sacramento nonprofit community, serving as the Co-President of the Board of Directors of Cottage Housing, Inc., the Vice President of Programing for the Board of Directors of the SCBA’s Barrister’s Club and a Board Member of the American River Natural History Association. She has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star (2016 to present); San Francisco Magazine’s Top Young Women Attorneys (2020), and by the Sacramento Business Journal’s Best of the Bar.

Caroline has also worked on four different appellate death penalty cases that involved extensive post-conviction appellate review, as well as interviewing witnesses and jurors involved in the original trials. She has also assisted in drafting portions of post-conviction habeas briefs regarding mental retardation and diagnosis and the effects of temporal lobe epilepsy.

She enjoys traveling, reading, hiking and camping, and is also an avid classic rock fan and attends concerts whenever she can.