Columbia Law School
Carter won the Jane Marks Murphy Prize for clinical advocacy while a student at Columbia Law School and has become a strong advocate of mediation as a valuable tool for many kinds of legal challenges. Through the New York Peace Institute, a non-profit that specializes in mediation, Carter has served as a mediator. She has also supervised student mediations in court-related programs at New York City Civil Court and Harlem Small Claims Court.
Before joining Columbia Law School, Carter was at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where she served on a team defending against a multibillion-dollar securities class-action lawsuit related to Enron. She also served as the senior antitrust associate on several multibillion-dollar mergers and worked on cases involving copyright law.