Caroline Rawls Strumph

• Representing a top pharmacy benefit manager in the largest multidistrict litigation in U.S. history.
• Representing multiple health care services providers, including hospital systems, home health agencies, hospice, and post-acute and ancillary services providers, in government investigations and False Claims Act litigation at the trial and appellate levels.
• Representing one of the country’s largest postsecondary education providers and a proprietary education company in multiple False Claims Act actions alleging violations of Title IV regulations.
• Representing a hospital system in multiple putative class actions alleging fraud, civil RICO, and breach of contract related to hospital and emergency department billing.
• Represented the CEO of a publicly traded health care company in investigations by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Represented a home health provider in a False Claims Act investigation involving alleged upcoding. The government declined to intervene, and the qui tam lawsuit was dismissed under the False Claims Act’s first-to-file bar.
• Represented a health care technology company in investigations by the Department of Justice and HHS Office of Inspector General.
• Obtained dismissal of a class action on behalf of a Fortune 100 health care services company involving alleged fraud and misrepresentation. Successfully defended the company on appeal before the Eleventh Circuit.
• Counsel to a Fortune 100 logistics company during an internal investigation concerning the theft of trade secrets.
• Represented the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce as amici curiae before the Georgia Supreme Court in multiple cases, including cases involving disputes over damages calculations and apportionment.

Caroline Rawls Strumph focuses her practice on health care litigation and government enforcement actions. She defends clients in matters involving complex contract disputes and fraud and advises health care, life sciences, and higher education clients on the impacts of rapidly evolving regulations. Caroline also has extensive experience defending companies against qui tam litigation and regularly represents clients in proceedings before the Department of Justice, HHS Office of Inspector General, Department of Education, Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general nationwide.

Caroline is recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® for Commercial Litigation. She is actively involved in the Atlanta community and serves on several boards including the Atlanta History Center, The Westminster Schools, and The Goizueta Foundation.

Caroline served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Michael Lawrence Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She received her J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where she served as editor for the Journal of Legislation & Public Policy and externed for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Office of the New York State Attorney General. Caroline earned her undergraduate degree, with honors, from Princeton University.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• New York University (J.D., 2016)
• Princeton University (A.B., 2012)

Clerkships

• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Hon. Michael L. Brown