Caroline Munley is a top-rated personal injury lawyer and a fierce guardian of victims’ rights. As Munley Law’s managing partner, Caroline has won millions of dollars for car accident, commercial truck crash, and workplace injury victims. She is widely recognized as an impassioned advocate and tenacious courtroom lawyer, and was honored to be named to the lists of Top 25 Women Trial Lawyers in PA, Best Lawyers in America, and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates. She was named as one of the Top 25 Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyers in Pennsylvania by the Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyers Association.
Caroline is certified as a specialist in the practice of workers’ compensation law by the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Section on Workers’ Compensation Law as authorized by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Caroline’s father, the late Robert W. Munley, instilled her commitment to fighting for justice for all and inspired Caroline to become a lawyer. In addition to her major car and truck accident case victories, Caroline works tirelessly to better the local communities of northeast Pennsylvania. She serves as a board member for the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and sits on the Capital Campaign Committee for the Women’s Resource Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania. She is also a frequent contributor to the Scranton Times-Tribune on issues of community safety. Caroline and her husband Edward Mullin are proud parents of two daughters.
Notable Cases
$32,250,000
SETTLEMENT FOR A TRAGIC AIRPLANE CRASH
$26,000,000
TRUCK ACCIDENT VICTIM WHO SUFFERED TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
$17,500,000
JURY VERDICT IN TEENS’ DEATH CAUSED BY CAR ACCIDENT
$8,000,000
FAMILY OF A MARINE WHO WAS KILLED IN A TRUCK CRASH
$3,970,000
FATAL TRUCK CRASH
$3,800,000
SERIOUSLY INJURED IN A TRUCK ACCIDENT
$3,000,000
SETTLEMENT FOR WOMAN MISDIAGNOSED WITH CANCER.
$2,250,000
SETTLEMENT FOR DRIVER OF A VAN INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT WITH A TRUCK.
$1,900,000
VERDICT FOR FAMILY INJURED BY 16-YEAR-OLD-DRIVER.
$1,500,000
JURY VERDICT AGAINST BANK FOR BREACH OF VERBAL LOAN AGREEMENT.
$1,400,000
SETTLEMENT IN ER WRONGFUL DEATH CASE.
$1,200,000
SETTLEMENT FOR BOY HIT BY BUS AT SUMMER CAMP.
Honors and Awards
Workers’ Compensation Law Certified Specialist, Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Section on Workers’ Compensation Law Lawyers of Distinction Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum Top 25 Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyers in PA, Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyers Association Top 25 Women Trial Lawyers in PA, National Trial Lawyers Association Named to Top 100 Trial Lawyers in PA by National Trial Lawyers Association AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell Silver Client Champion award, Martindale-Hubbell Best Lawyers in America Irish Legal 100 Named Northeast Pennsylvania’s Top 20 Under 40 Named Top 25 Women in Business Pennsylvania Super Lawyer 2022 Pennsylvania Magazine’s Rising Star Super Lawyer 2006-2013 Managing Partner of Munley Law
Education
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
James E. Beasley School of Law, Juris Doctor, 2003
UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON
Bachelor of Arts, 1997
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Language School
Bar Admissions
PENNSYLVANIA
Seal of the U.S. Distr Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
Professional Affiliations
Pennsylvania Bar Association Lackawanna Bar Association International Society of Barristers American Association for Justice Pennsylvania Association for Justice
Publications and Other Achievements
Author, “Make Seat Belts Mandatory on School Buses,” The Scranton Times-Tribune, December 2016 Author, “Drugged Driving Poses Greater Highway Risk,” The Scranton Times-Tribune, March 2015 Board of Directors, Young Lawyers Section, Lackawanna County Bar Association, 2011 Lackawanna Bar Association 2009 Committees: Judiciary Committee, Golf Outing Committee, Public Relations Committee, Red Mass Committee Paralegal Advisory Board at the McCann School of Business and Technology
Family & Community
Board of Trustees, the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art Capital Campaign Committee, Women’s Resource Center of NEPA Board member, the Scranton Club Caroline is married to Edward Mullin and is the proud mother of two daughters
