About Karl Gwaltney
Karl Gwaltney is an attorney at Maginnis Howard in North Carolina. His practice covers consumer protection, wage and hour law, unfair debt collection, Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations, consumer class actions, personal injury, and wrongful death.
Gwaltney earned his B.S. cum laude from Appalachian State University and his Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law. He is admitted to practice in North Carolina state courts and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Western, and Middle Districts of North Carolina.
He is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, North Carolina Advocates for Justice (Employment Law Section; Vice-Chair of the Products Liability, Class Action, and Mass Torts Section), the North Carolina Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Tenth Judicial District Bar Association, the National Association of Consumer Advocates, the North Carolina Guardian ad Litem Program, and the Susie L. Sharp Inn of Court.
He was named to Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2017-2021) and selected as a Super Lawyer (2022-2026). His notable case results include settlements and judgments ranging from $7+ million class actions to individual recoveries in unpaid wage cases, FDCPA violations, and consumer protection matters.
Notable case results
A class of North Carolina apartment tenants who were charged eviction-related fees that state law prohibited reached a $7,029,000 settlement with Southwood Realty Company in April 2020, part of a broader $8 million resolution against three property managers.
Maginnis Howard secured a $2.5 million settlement for 6,858 North Carolina patients after proving that medical-records processor MRO Corporation systematically charged copying fees that exceeded the state statutory cap, entitling each class member to a full refund of unlawful charges plus a penalty of roughly $205 per violation.
Class action settlement
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
