Kasi Wahlers Robinson

Kasi has represented businesses and individuals under investigation by numerous state and federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, N.C. Department of Justice, N.C. Department of Revenue, and N.C. State Bureau of Investigations. She understands that the most successful cases are the ones resolved quietly and with minimal disruption to her clients’ lives and businesses. When charges cannot be avoided, Kasi has experience defending clients facing criminal litigation before all levels of the federal and state judiciary. She walks beside clients during these challenging experiences and relentlessly advocates for the most favorable outcomes possible.    

Kasi conducts and advises on a variety of internal investigations involving allegations of criminal misconduct, corporate malfeasance, ethics complaints, and various workplace issues for businesses, governmental entities, and individuals. She understands the sensitive nature of investigations and works to limit disruptions to business while getting to the heart of the issues. Her investigative work has touched on many issues including healthcare regulations, fraud, sexual misconduct, discrimination, and educational matters.

Kasi represents a wide range of professionals before their respective licensing boards. She has advised and represented individuals with matters involving the North Carolina State Bar, North Carolina Real Estate Commission, North Carolina Social Work Licensing Board, North Carolina Health Care Personnel Registry, and others.

Kasi also serves as external ethics counsel for attorneys and law firms. In this role, she advises lawyers regarding various professional responsibility issues, such as counseling lawyers faced with potential malpractice exposure and those needing to respond to subpoenas requesting potentially confidential and privileged material.

Kasi represents businesses and individuals in civil matters, frequently in cases arising in federal court. She began her career as a federal law clerk to the Honorable William L. Osteen, Jr., then-Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina and subsequently R. Lanier Anderson, III, of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In a time where many cases are decided on the briefs and litigants rarely set foot in the courtroom, Kasi has years of experience working inside the federal judiciary, where she worked on cases at every procedural posture: from initial pleadings, to trial, through appeal. Since joining Brooks Pierce, she has represented clients in a wide variety of matters in federal court, including defense of national class actions, trade secret misappropriation claims, False Claims Act suits, securities litigation, complex wrongful death cases, and a litany of commercial disputes.