Overview
Valerie Caras clerked for the Honorable Gregory B. Williams and the Honorable Laura D. Hatcher in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
Valerie focuses her practice on commercial and intellectual property litigation in Delaware’s state and federal courts. She completed the Federal Trial Practice Seminar sponsored by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and the District of Delaware Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. She previously served on the Federal Bar Association’s Federal Judicial Law Clerk committee.
In law school, Valerie interned with the Honorable Kent A. Jordan, Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the Honorable Susan E. Schwab, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
PRACTICES
Clerkships
- The Honorable Laura D. Hatcher, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 2023-2026
- The Honorable Gregory B. Williams, District Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 2022-2023
- The Honorable Matthew W. Brann, District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2018-2019
- Villanova University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2018
Villanova Law Review, Editor-in-Chief
Hyman-Goodman Award - Dickinson College, B.A., 2008
Education
Publications
Standing Out: Section 285 Attorney Fees in the District of Delaware
ABA | September 15, 2020
Litigating Intellectual Property Rights Created in Response to COVID-19
Bar Journal | May 2020
As companies race to develop vaccines, medical products, and other treatments to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, these advances will likely engender litigation related to the protection of intellectual property rights. Given the District of Delaware’s national prominence as a preeminent patent litigation venue, a sizeable portion of such litigation may proceed in a Delaware courtroom. A…
A Conversation with the First Women to Lead Two of Delaware’s Largest Firms
ABA | February 20, 2020
When Kathleen Furey McDonough was elected chair of Potter Anderson and Corroon LLP’s executive committee in 2018, she became the first woman to lead a major Delaware firm. Doneene K. Damon, elected president of Richards, Layton, and Finger, P.A., in 2019, became the first African American woman in Delaware to serve in that role. Neither thought…
Leadership
- Delaware State Bar Association, Bar Journal, Editorial Advisory Committee
- Leadership 100
- LCLD Pathfinder
Bar Admissions
- Delaware
- Pennsylvania
- United States District Court, District of Delaware