Caroline Hyatt has always loved a challenge and her fearlessness is reflected in her work. She likes to take on the most complex and challenging cases.

Hyatt’s specialty is research and writing, which she uses to support the firm where complex and novel legal issues arise in Friedman, Gilbert + Gerhardstein’s cutting-edge civil rights litigation. 

She honed her writing skills in law school, where she published work in the Freedom Center Journal (FCJ), a joint, scholarly publication of the University of Cincinnati College of Law and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Edited and published annually by law students, the FCJ explores legacies of historical struggles for freedom to provide a better understanding of ongoing forms of subordination and to craft strategies for social change.

Her writing was also awarded second place in the Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition in Labor and Employment Law, a competition that recognizes the best legal writing in the field of labor and employment law among law students. She was also the recipient of the Ohio State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section Award for her outstanding scholarship in Labor and Employment Law.

Since graduating, she has used those skills to fight for the rights of those who have been mistreated by the government, including the victims of police brutality, discrimination, and other abuses of governmental power.

EDUCATION

University of Cincinnati (B.A with honors, 2006)

University of Cincinnati College of Law (J.D./M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2015)

PRACTICE AREAS

Civil Rights

BAR ADMISSIONS

State of Ohio

Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio

Sixth Circuit