Katrina Caseldine is a trial lawyer who represents clients in all phases of litigation and focuses her practice on the defense of high-exposure product liability, toxic tort, and complex commercial litigation that involve allegations of personal injury and wrongful death. She assists clients from the moment they face potential litigation and has experience conducting internal investigations, developing litigation strategies, defending clients in court, and providing counseling to minimize future litigation risk.
Katrina has represented clients in the tobacco, pharmaceutical, medical device, health care, aviation, energy, and consumer goods industries. She has been a member of more than two dozen trial teams in high-profile jury cases tried to verdict, highlighted by several defense verdicts and awards of nominal damages. Her experience covers all aspects of discovery and trial preparation, including offensive and defensive discovery; taking and defending fact and expert witness depositions; drafting and arguing motions, jury instructions, and other legal issues; evaluating, developing, and preparing fact and expert witnesses for trial; and cross-examining fact and expert witnesses at trial.
Katrina has defended R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company since 2009 in dozens of Engle progeny personal injury and wrongful death jury trials across various state and federal courts. She also has experience defending Fortune 500 pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in both multidistrict litigation and individual lawsuits pending throughout the country, as well as defending a medical care provider in prelitigation investigation of critical incidents and adverse events.
Experience
- University of North Carolina (J.D. with honors 2009; Comments Editor, North Carolina Law Review); Clemson University (B.A. in Communication Studies and Spanish summa cum laude 2006; Calhoun Honors Scholar)
- Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio
- Spanish