Carolin Guentert is Co-Managing Partner of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight’s New York office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Sexual Violence, Title IX, and Victims’ Rights Practice Group.
At Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, Carolin’s practice has focused on representing individuals and proposed classes in discrimination and harassment cases, and she also represents survivors of sexual violence in their civil cases as well as Title IX matters.
Carolin received her law degree from New York University School of Law, her LL.M. with distinction from Georgetown University Law Center, and her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from The College of New Jersey. While at New York University School of Law, Carolin served as the Senior Symposium Editor for the Journal of International Law and Politics. She also served as the president of the Domestic Violence Advocacy Project and participated in the Reproductive Justice Clinic.
Carolin is a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars. Before joining Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, Carolin completed a clerkship for the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. After her clerkship, Carolin was a clinical teaching fellow in Georgetown University Law Center’s Domestic Violence Clinic. As part of the fellowship, she completed the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program at Georgetown.
- Representing a former Division I student athlete who alleges in her lawsuit that Colgate University failed to keep her safe from an abusive athletics coach.
- Representing a Southwest pilot who alleges that during a flight, another pilot sexually harassed her in the cockpit by masturbating and watching pornography, and that she faced retaliation when she reported the incident.
- Litigating on behalf of 18 former student pilots who were enrolled at the American Airlines Cadet Academy, all of whom are people of color and who allege that they experienced race discrimination in the program.
- Representing employees who experienced discrimination at work on the basis of their pregnancy, parental leave, or caregiver obligations.
- Class action
- Labor and employment
- Plaintiff
- Civil Rights
- Title IX
- J.D., New York University School of Law, 2014
- LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, 2019
- B.A., summa cum laude, The College of New Jersey, 2011
- Domestic Violence Advocacy Project (President)
- Journal of International Law and Politics (Senior Symposium Editor)
- New York, 2015
- District of Columbia, 2017