Kathy McCarroll is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. Her practice focuses on business litigation, personal injury defense, railroad law, products liability defense and appellate advocacy.   In 2019, Mid-South Super Lawyers listed Kathy as a “Rising Star.” 

Prior to law school, Kathy enjoyed a successful career in communications with an emphasis on speechwriting. Kathy got her start in speechwriting while working on a U.S. presidential campaign. She later became the speechwriter for a prominent Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Since then, Kathy has worked across federal and state government, including serving as a speechwriter in The White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and as a communications specialist for the Arkansas Attorney General. Most recently, Kathy worked as a public affairs specialist for a Little Rock advertising agency, utilizing her writing skills to achieve marketing solutions for clients across both the private and public sectors.

Kathy graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law in 2014. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 2003.

She has been named as "One to Watch" by Best Lawyers in America for her work in litigation, construction and insurance law and as a "Rising Star" by Mid-South Super Lawyers. 

• University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 2014
  • Associate Notes Editor, Law Review
• Wellesley College, B.A., Political Science, cum laude, 2003

• Named as "One to Watch" in Best Lawyers in America, 2021 & 2022
  • Appellate Practice
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction Law
  • Insurance Law

• Selected to the Mid-South Super Lawyers Rising Stars list, since 2019

• Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers.
• Arkansas Bar Association
• Downtown Little Rock Kiwanis Club
• IADC Trial Academy 2018
• Pulaski County Bar Association
• Quapaw Quarter Association, Board Member 2014-2019

• Arkansas
• United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
• Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals