Welcome to the latest edition of the Lit Daily’s In-House Litigation Leaders series where we focus on lawyers making the hiring decisions, shaping the strategies and managing the caseloads at some of the nation’s largest and most innovative companies. 

Meet Caroline Teichner, who is litigation counsel at The Kraft Heinz Company, the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world. Based in Chicago, Teichner previously practiced as an intellectual property litigator at IP boutique McAndrews, Held & Malloy and at the Chicago office of Perkins Coie before joining Kraft Heinz in 2019. She holds a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and got her law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law at the tech-centric Illinois Institute of Technology.