CAROLINE CHIAPPETTI
Associate
Caroline joined Strumwasser & Woocher after working as a litigation
associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where she worked with a
broad range of clients, from small companies involved in contract disputes
to large corporations in nationwide litigation. While at O’Melveny,
Caroline maintained an active impact litigation practice, including serving
as co-counsel with the ACLU in actions representing physicians asserting
constitutional challenges to state laws. Caroline has experience drafting
trial court and appellate briefs, managing discovery, participating in
settlement negotiations and at trial.
Caroline graduated
cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the
Harvard Journal of Law & Gender and co-president of
Law Students for Reproductive Justice. Caroline spent her third year of law school as a visiting student at
the University of California - Berkeley School of Law, where she worked
with the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice. While in law school,
Caroline published a note in the
Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties
Law Review concerning the historical origins of sex discrimination under the 14th Amendment.
Caroline graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College with a B.A. in
Political Science. Before law school, she worked in New York City as a
paralegal at a multinational law firm and as a legal assistant at the
Center for Reproductive Rights.