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 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 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 the CEO of a publicly traded health care company in investigations by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• 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 a major wireless solutions provider in litigation arising from the construction of an NFL stadium.
• 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 investigations. She defends clients in matters involving complex contract disputes and fraud and advises health care, life sciences, and education clients on the potential impacts of evolving regulations. Caroline also has extensive experience defending companies against qui tam litigation and associated civil and criminal government investigations by the Department of Justice, HHS Office of the Inspector General, and state attorneys general. Caroline is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America^® “Ones to Watch” for Commercial Litigation.

Caroline served as a law 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 articles editor for the Journal of Legislation & Public Policy and as a member of the board of the Latino Law Students Association. Caroline also 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)