Candace M. Carroll - Of Counsel

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Ms. Carroll is a highly-regarded appellate practitioner with more than 30 years experience handling appeals in the federal, state and bankruptcy appellate courts. Her cases have included a wide range of subjects, including contract disputes, insurance and indemnity issues, wrongful termination, intellectual property, personal injury and complex family law matters. Prior to her 25 years of practice with the firm, she spent seven years in the Appellate Court Branch of the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., and a year serving as Court Law Clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She has taught seminars in Advanced Legal Writing at Duke University and University of San Diego Law Schools, and currently supervises a Ninth Circuit Legal Clinic at the University of San Diego Law School.

Ms. Carroll chairs Senator Barbara Boxer’s Judicial Appointments Committee for the Southern District of California. She is a past president of the San Diego County Bar Association and of California Women Lawyers, the statewide women’s bar association. In 2009, she received the Duke University Law School’s Charles S. Rhyne Award, given to an alumnus whose career as a practicing attorney has demonstrated the highest standards of professionalism and personal integrity. She is a life member of the Duke University Law School Board of Visitors, and serves on the California Western Law School Council of Visitors.

Ms. Carroll is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court; the California Supreme Court; the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and several other circuits; the United States District Courts for the Central and Southern Districts; and all California courts.

Ms. Carroll has an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell. She has also been recognized as a San Diego Super Lawyer in the field of appellate law (2007, 2011-12).