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Catharine E. Edwards is a dedicated attorney at Edwards Beightol LLC in Raleigh, North Carolina, specializing in Employment Law and Personal Injury. With over a decade of legal experience, she has successfully advocated for hundreds of clients impacted by corporate negligence, civil rights violations, sexual harassment, and workplace discrimination. Catharine adopts a client-centered approach, skillfully aligning her clients' personal objectives with astute legal analysis and fervent representation. Her personal injury practice is focused on serious injuries and wrongful death claims arising from corporate negligence, vehicle accidents, industrial mishaps, and unsafe property conditions. Additionally, she represents individuals facing sexual harassment or assault, whistleblowers experiencing retaliation, and employees subjected to severe workplace discrimination. Catharine's civil rights advocacy addresses critical community issues, including police misconduct, inadequate care for prison inmates, and the injustices of wrongful convictions. A cum laude graduate of Princeton University in 2004, Catharine earned her degree in politics with a certificate in political economy. She completed her legal education at Harvard Law School in 2009, where she served as a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, assisting low-income clients in the Boston area, and was the policy editor for the Harvard Law & Policy Review. Following law school, Catharine clerked for U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in the Eastern District of Virginia and practiced law in Washington, D.C., and San Diego, California, before returning to her home state of North Carolina.

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