Caroline Giovannetti Somerville is the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at American Residential Services LLC (ARS), a $1B+ national home service company with over 6,500 employees across the United States; earlier she served as its Deputy General Counsel and Associate General Counsel at ARS. As VP and Deputy General Counsel, Caroline oversees ARS’s legal, regulatory and compliance efforts, M&A activity, client contract management, employment practices, privacy compliance, fraud prevention, licensing requirements, litigation management, and furnishing legal advice to the company’s board of directors and senior executives. Before joining ARS, Caroline was in private practice at Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, PLLC in Memphis, TN specializing in medical malpractice defense and commercial litigation. Caroline holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and a B.A. in public relations and business management from The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.