Caroline Wolverton focuses her practice on government-facing litigation, including administrative and regulatory matters under the Administrative Procedure Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and other records-access policies.  Caroline also represents clients in complex civil matters, drawing on her extensive litigation experience including motions practice, discovery, settlement negotiations, and trial.

Caroline previously served as a senior trial counsel in the Federal Programs Branch of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Division where she litigated civil cases of national significance involving regulatory, statutory, constitutional and other challenges on behalf of a diversity of federal agencies, including the departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Treasury and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Transportation, Education, Defense and State. She also provided counsel to multiple federal agencies on rulemakings as well as litigation risk and strategy.

While at the DOJ, Caroline defended the HHS and the Treasury in litigation challenging implementation of the Affordable Care Act. She defended challenges to Medicare rulemakings, challenges to OFAC sanctions designations, administrative decisions under the Freedom of Information Act, programmatic decisions of multiple federal agencies and federal employment actions. Among other significant representations, Caroline’s work also included defending the Department of State in discovery in a Freedom of Information Act challenge regarding former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server for State Department business.

Prior to her years of service at the DOJ, Caroline was an associate at another Washington, D.C. law firm. She also served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Edward W. Nottingham in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.