Butler Snow LLP

Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Healthcare Litigation

Caroline Walker is Assistant Practice Group Leader for the firm’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Healthcare Litigation Group. She defends pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in mass tort and individual cases pending in various state and federal venues throughout the country. She has experience in all aspects of mass tort litigation.

Her experience includes acting as lead counsel in hearings and case workup in multiple jurisdictions, including Alabama, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. She served as trial lawyer assisting lead counsel in multiple cases involving medical device litigation. In In re Ethicon, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2327, United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, she was a core member of the Gynemesh deposition, motions, and expert teams.   She also served on the trial team that obtained a complete defense victory after an eight-day jury trial in March 2022. Shears v. Ethicon, Inc., et al., Case No. 1:20-cv-00264, United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.

Caroline is recognized as one of Birmingham Business Journal’s 2022 NextGen: Law and Best of Bar, and Best Lawyers in America® recognized her as one of its Ones to Watch for Products Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2021-2024. She is a member of the Alabama State Bar, Birmingham Bar Association, American Bar Association and the Mississippi Bar Association.

She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Mississippi and earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama.