CALL TODAY888-THE-TEAM

Kathleen Quinn DuBois

Senior Partner – Administrative Law
“We Stand Up For You®, so you can Stand Up for those you love."

- Christopher H. Roberts

I am guided daily by Luke 12:48 – ‘Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.’ My ability to assist and serve our clients is one that I do not take lightly. I am honored and humbled to be able to help our clients during times that our clients need it most.

Bio

Kathleen Quinn DuBois is a Shareholder Attorney with the law firm of CR Legal Team, LLP. After having previously worked in corporate defense, her practice has been exclusive to the representation of injured workers since joining the firm in 2004. As a Board-Certified Specialist in Worker’s Compensation, Kathleen serves as the Practice Group Leader for the firm’s Worker’s Compensation Practice Group as well as a member of the firm’s Executive Team.

After her graduation from the Leadership Winston Salem Class of 2011, Kathleen was honored as one of the NC Lawyers Weekly 2012 Women of Justice Rising Star Honorees and as one of 2013’s top young leaders in Triad Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” In 2011, the Filipina Women’s Network named Kathleen one of the “100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S.,” which exemplifies her pride of her Filipino-American heritage. Additionally, she has been a presenter at the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals and at the Continuing Legal Education for the North Carolina Bar Association. More recently, she served on a panel presentation at the 28th Annual NC Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference in October 2023 on the topic of pain management and rehabilitation of brain and head injuries.

Kathleen’s admissions and memberships include the North Carolina State Bar, the North Carolina Bar Association – Workers’ Compensation Board Member, the Forsyth County Bar Association, and Admissions to U.S. District Court – Western District of North Carolina and the U.S. Supreme Court. She has previously served two terms on the Workers’ Compensation Section Council of the North Carolina Bar Association and has served one term on the Ethics and Grievance Committee of the 21st (now 31st) Judicial District/Forsyth County Bar of the North Carolina State Bar.

Kathleen received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame and earned her Juris Doctor from the School of Law at Wake Forest University. She and her husband Shane, also a Notre Dame alumnus, “bleed blue and gold” and have been excited with Notre Dame’s involvement in the ACC. They along with their two daughters – Olivia, who attends Appalachian State University and will be graduating this coming May 2024, and Claudia, a high school senior who will also be graduating this coming June 2024 and will be continuing her education at UNC Greensboro in the Fall – reside in Winston Salem with their three dogs and 2 chickens.

Kathleen continues to be an advocate for health and wellness and is an accomplished athlete. She has competed in several sprint triathlons in the past and is proud of her accomplishments of having completed 9 half-marathons as well as a number of 5K and 10K races. She is involved with CR Legal Team’s Employee Wellness program (C.R.E.W.) and has been featured in the firm’s new television commercials. She proudly represents CR Legal Teamat CLEs and community events throughout each year.

Kathleen states, “My ability to assist and serve my clients is one that I do not take lightly. I am honored and humbled to be able to help my clients and my community during times that they need it most.”

Education

  • University of Notre Dame, B.B.A. and B.A.
  • Wake Forest University School of Law, Juris Doctorate

Bar Admissions And Memberships

  • North Carolina – 2003
    • Admitted to practice in all State and Appellate Courts
  • United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina – 2003
  • United States Supreme Court – 2014

Awards And Honors

  • North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation – 2015
  • AV Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Filipino Women’s Network 100 Most Influential Filipinos – 2011
  • North Carolina Business Weekly Top 40 under 40 – 2013
  • Women of Justice Rising Star Award by NC Lawyers Weekly – 2012
  • Leadership Winston Salem Class of 2011
  • International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals – Presenter (2019, 2020)
  • NCBA Workers’ Compensation Section Executive Council – current 3-year term (2018 to 2021)
    • Membership Committee Co-Chair (2018 to 2021)
  • Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church (Winston Salem, NC) – Liturgy Commission and Lector Coordinator (current)
  • NCBA CLE, Presenter at past CLEs
  • Ethics and Grievance Committee of Forsyth County Bar – 2011 to 2014
  • North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, Attorney Power List – 2022

Education

Bar Admissions
and Memberships

  • North Carolina – 2003
    • Admitted to practice in all State and Appellate Courts
  • United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina – 2003
  • United States Supreme Court – 2014
  • North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation – 2015
  • AV Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Filipino Women’s Network 100 Most Influential Filipinos – 2011
  • North Carolina Business Weekly Top 40 under 40 – 2013
  • Women of Justice Rising Star Award by NC Lawyers Weekly – 2012
  • Leadership Winston Salem Class of 2011
  • International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals – Presenter (2019, 2020)
  • NCBA Workers’ Compensation Section Executive Council – current 3-year term (2018 to 2021)
    • Membership Committee Co-Chair (2018 to 2021)
  • Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church (Winston Salem, NC) – Liturgy Commission and Lector Coordinator (current)
  • NCBA CLE, Presenter at past CLEs
  • Ethics and Grievance Committee of Forsyth County Bar – 2011 to 2014
  • North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, Attorney Power List – 2022

The Personal Injury Lawyers

Who'd Rather You Never Need Them

Kimberly and I met in 1992 as kindred spirits, both drawn to the idea of building something larger than ourselves—an extension of our family committed to serving others. We married in 1994, while I was practicing law, and Kimberly worked in healthcare consulting. We thought we understood how the legal system worked. Then September 19, 1995 changed everything.

It’s the worst possible situation to be in after a serious injury. I’m sitting across from a guy who’s supposed to be one of the better traumatic brain injury lawyers, but I’m realizing he doesn’t understand what Kimberly and I are going through!

I got hit by a tractor-trailer just two months before. My wife Kimberly—nineteen weeks pregnant with our first child—has had to watch me deal with personality changes, possible lifelong symptoms, and terrifying fears of our family's future.

What makes it all worse is the fact that I am a lawyer with years of experience, and yet even I can’t get the kind of representation we desperately need. It’s a scary situation.

I grew up in Charlotte. My mother was a teacher, my father a manager working with blue-collar contractors. My parents instilled in me a simple principle: stand up for people who can’t stand up for themselves. Becoming an Eagle Scout reinforced it.

Kimberly grew up in Rockingham, a small North Carolina community. Her parents, a nurse and a salesman, also instilled the importance of community service. Sunday mornings singing in youth prison ministry, working with rehabilitation centers, partnering with local organizations – all part of Kimberly’s youth and what shaped her heart.

My brain injury accident showed us that even being on the inside of the legal profession didn’t protect us from getting poor representation. Our lawyer didn’t really serve us well because he couldn’t put himself in our shoes.

After my personal injury, I knew exactly what kind of lawyer I wanted to be:

someone who truly understands what clients are going through because I've been there myself. Kimberly joined me, bringing her healthcare background and passion for wellness. We built our practice around a simple idea—we don't just handle your case, we understand your whole journey, and we prepare you for it.

Today we’ve been in business for 35 years and we’ve recovered billions of dollars for our clients, but more importantly, we’ve advanced our services to what we call “whole person legal care.” We don’t just fight for financial recovery—we address the physical, emotional, and mental needs that make up a whole person. We prepare people before accidents happen through safety education. We stand beside them during their recovery. And we help them figure out where to go when their time with us is done.

What drives us is knowing that if you know better, you have to do better. Through our Roberts Center, we give away thousands of bicycle helmets, teach CPR, provide scholarships, and run safety programs in schools because we’d rather prevent accidents happening to your family than litigate them.