Caitlin Boehne

ATTORNEY

Caitlin works from the Albuquerque office of the Kaplan Law Firm, to assist workers across Texas and New Mexico. Caitlin specializes in handling complex litigation, class and collective actions, in addition to representing individual workers in lawsuits and pre-suit negotiations. Before joining KLF in 2023, Caitlin had been on the vanguard of the struggle for workers' rights in Texas for eleven years at the Equal Justice Center, primarily litigating impact employment claims. As a Senior Managing Attorney at the Equal Justice Center, Caitlin litigated dozens of employment claims for hundreds of workers in state and federal court, developing an expertise in handling claims ranging from wage theft, to workplace sexual harassment, race discrimination, disability discrimination, labor trafficking, and more. Caitlin has prevailed at trial in federal court and in arbitration, argued and won dispositive motions, and successfully resolved numerous cases in mediation and in administrative proceedings, including on behalf of monolingual Spanish-speakers. In 2023, Caitlin won a trial in federal court seeking unpaid wages and overtime for four construction workers. In 2024, Caitlin resolved a class action labor trafficking claim on behalf of 23 Filipino guestworkers for $730,000. In the past year, Caitlin has twice been appointed class counsel on WARN Act class actions, won a trial, and has successfully defended several favorable court orders before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Prior to litigating, Caitlin was the Director and Co-Director of the Equal Justice Center’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration legal services program. In law school, Caitlin held clerkships at Human Rights Watch in New York, and at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania.