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Kathleen Quinn DuBois

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

- Christopher H. Roberts

Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Bio

Kathleen is a Senior Partner and Shareholder Attorney with CR Legal Team, LLP. After a short time working 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 Workers’ Compensation, Kathleen manages the firm’s Administrative Law Division overseeing Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability. She is also a member of the firm’s Executive Team.

Kathleen is originally from San Antonio, Texas. She and her husband, Shane, met while they were students at the University of Notre Dame (GO IRISH!). They have two daughters – Olivia, a graduate of Appalachian State University, and Claudia, a student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Kathleen states: “We as attorneys have a unique ability to assist and serve our clients. I am honored and humbled to Stand Up every day for our clients in our communities.

Education:

  • JD, Wake Forest University School of Law – 2002
  • BBA, University of Notre Dame – 1995

Bar Admissions and Memberships:

  • US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
  • United States Supreme Court (2014)
  • North Carolina (2003)
  • NC Board Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law (2013), (Recertified 2018, 2023)
  • NC Bar Association – Workers’ Compensation Section
    • Section Executive Council (2018 to 2021)
    • Membership Committee Co-Chair (2018 to 2021)
  • Forsyth County Bar Association – 31st Judicial District
    • Ethics and Grievance Committee (2011 to 2014)

Awards and Professional Recognition:

  • AV Preeminent Attorney Martindale-Hubbell (2025)
  • NC Lawyers’ Weekly Power List (2022)
  • NC Business Weekly Top 40 under 40 (2013)
  • NC Lawyers’ Weekly Women of Justice Rising Star Award (2012)
  • Leadership Winston Salem ( 2011)
  • Filipino Women’s Network 100 Most Influential Filipinos (2011)

Speaking:

  • Annual NCIC Educational Conference (October 2023)
    • Pain Management and Rehabilitation of Brain and Head Injuries
  • International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals
    • How to Ethically Avoid Fouls and Turnovers – Review of Case Law (2020)
    • Ethical Boundaries in the Management of Workers’ Comp (2018)
  • Past presenter for Continuing Legal Education for the NC Bar Association

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.