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Caroline H. Gentry
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cgentry@porterwright.com
p: 937-449-6748 f: 937-449-6820
Fifth Third Center
One South Main Street
Dayton, OH 45402-2028
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Ms. Gentry has significant experience in the areas of employment, business, and commercial litigation. Her practice areas include complex commercial litigation, class actions, ERISA litigation, employment litigation, and trade secrets/unfair competition. Ms. Gentry also chairs the firm’s Class Action Practice Group. Prior to entering private practice, she served a two-year clerkship with Judge Walter Herbert Rice, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Ms. Gentry served as lead counsel in the pro bono case Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Blackwell (S.D.Ohio), which changed and clarified Ohio's voter-identification requirements for the November 2006 general election and Ohio's provisional ballot rules for the November 2008 general election. She has been identified as an Ohio "Rising Star" by the publishers of Law & Politics and Super Lawyers from 2005 to 2009. Additionally, Ms. Gentry was honored with the “Forty Under 40” award by the Dayton Business Journal in 2008.
Practice Areas
Labor & Employment
Employment class and collective actions
Employment discrimination and wrongful discharge litigation
ERISA/employee benefits advice and litigation
Litigation
Class actions
Complex commercial
Intellectual property
Professional Associations
Dayton Bar Association, Federal Practice Committee, Chair, 2001-2003
Ohio State Bar Association
American Bar Association, Member of the Class Action and Derivative Suits Committee
Defense Research Institute, Member of Commercial Litigation Committee and Life, Health and Disability Committee
Education
Yale Law School, J.D., 1995, The Yale Law Journal, Senior Editor
Kalamazoo College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1992; Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
State of Ohio
U.S. District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of Ohio
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States
Presentations/Publications/CLE
Author, "The Top Ten Things You Need to Know When Removing a Class Action," ABA Class Action and Derivative Suit Committee Newsletter, Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring/Summer 2009
Author, "Preparing Today Will Pay Off Tomorrow: Getting Clients Ready for Electronic Discovery," IP Litigator Vol. 9, No. 2, February 2003
Community/Civic/Volunteer Work
Ohio State Bar Foundation, Fellow
Leadership Dayton
Asian Arts Center, Board Member
The Entrepreneurs Center, Board Member
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