Caroline L. Osborne is the Assistant Dean of Legal Information Services and Professor of Legal Research at Washington and Lee University.  She teaches Advanced Legal Research and is the director for the Burks Scholar Program for legal research and writing.

She holds her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a J.D. degree from the University of Richmond, an LL.M in Taxation from Emory University School of Law, and her M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She was a member of the University of Richmond Law Review and the McNeil Honor Society.

During college, Ms. Osborne worked in the firm library for Petree Stockton and Robinson, now part of Kilpatrick Stockton. 

Prior to joining Washington and Lee, Ms. Osborne served as a research librarian and taught legal research at the University of Richmond.  Ms. Osborne practiced law for ten years specializing in corporate finance and is licensed to practice in North Carolina, Georgia, and New York.  She last practiced at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York.

Ms. Osborne is active in SEAALL where she is the current vice president – president elect, and AALL where she is a past chair of the Bylaws Committee.  She has served on the COSELL Board and is a current member of the board of directors of VA-CLE.  She writes and presents on issues regarding legal research instruction.