Caroline is a business lawyer who helps businesses expand, buy or lease real estate, transition ownership, negotiate commercial financing, form, wind-up, or sell. Caroline’s practice also involves highly regulated real estate, including condominium and timeshare developments and governance, corporate compliance, securities, regulatory matters, land use, and commercial litigation. Caroline advises her clients on transactional matters, how to avoid litigation, and what to do and expect if litigation occurs.

In 2025, Forbes® selected Caroline as New Hampshire’s “Best-in-State Lawyer” for her real estate work, after Forbes conducted a rigorous, multi-stage process of researching, evaluating, and rating thousands of candidates. Caroline continues to be selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for Concord, NH in the fields of Leisure & Hospitality Law, Real Estate Law, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, Banking Law, Business Organizations, Corporate Law, and Securities Regulation. Caroline was named by Best Lawyers® as Concord’s 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” in Real Estate Law and was named by Best Lawyers® as Concord’s 2023 “Lawyer of the Year” in Commercial Transactions/UCC Law. Caroline is recognized as a top-rated business and corporate lawyer and litigation attorney in Concord, NH, by Super Lawyers® with a Rising Stars designation for 2016-2025.

In 2020, Caroline received the New Hampshire Bar Foundation’s Robert Kirby Award. The Kirby Award is presented annually to an attorney 35 years old or younger who demonstrates the traits of civility, courtesy, perspective, and excellent advocacy. Bob Kirby, for whom the award is named, was an attorney with Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, P.C., and is remembered as a young lawyer “of great skill, civility and good humor” when he died at age 35. Caroline is the 24th recipient of the award, and the first person from the firm to receive it.

In January 2026, Caroline was appointed by the New Hampshire Supreme Court to the New Hampshire Complaint Screening Committee for a three-year term. As part of the New Hampshire attorney discipline system, the Complaint Screening Committee considers whether there is sufficient evidence of an attorney’s violation of the ethical Professional Rules of Conduct, which warrant further processing of the matter.

Caroline has served on multiple nonprofit boards. She served as the Immediate Past President, President, Vice President, Treasurer, and County Representative of the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association for a total of nine years. She served for four years as Community Outreach Chair of the Webster-Batchelder American Inn of Court, three years as Trustee of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society and three years as Director of Red River Theatres. Caroline is an alumna of the Junior Service League of Concord and served six years on the Northern New England (ME, NH, and VT) regional board of the American Red Cross. In 2019, the NH/VT division of the American Red Cross awarded Caroline “Board Member of the Year.” In December 2025, Caroline completed her ninth year of service on the New Hampshire Professional Conduct Committee, to which she was appointed by the New Hampshire Supreme Court. She served as Vice Chair from January 2022 through December 2025. As part of the New Hampshire attorney discipline system, the Professional Conduct Committee considers hearing panel reports and memoranda submitted by respondent attorneys and Disciplinary Counsel to determine whether to find ethical Rules violations and impose discipline.

Caroline taught a legal residency course for two semesters as an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. This course places law students in the legal field for a semester, typically with private firms, judges, or companies’ in-house legal departments. Through this experience, students apply the skills they have learned in law school in real-practice settings before graduation.

Caroline graduated cum laude from the University of New Hampshire School of Law and earned her bachelor of arts degree, magna cum laude, from Colby College. At UNH Law, she was a Daniel Webster Scholar, president of the Student Bar Association, and justice of Phi Alpha Delta. At graduation, she was awarded “Outstanding Law Student” by the National Association of Women Lawyers.

Caroline serves on the firm’s Management Committee, as Corporate Secretary for the firm, and as Department Chair for the Business & Transactional Department. She is admitted in New Hampshire, Maine, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire, and the United States First Circuit Court of Appeals.