Caroline H. Mankey graduated cum laude from UCLA with a bachelor of arts degree in Germanic Languages in 1990. In 1996, she graduated from the UCLA School of Law and was admitted to the California bar. At UCLA School of Law, she served on the Women's Law Journal, participated in the Moot Court Honors Program and was the 1994-95 co-president of the Entertainment Law Society. During the summer of 1994, Ms. Mankey was an extern for Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt.

After law school, Ms. Mankey worked for the intellectual property boutique firm of Benjamin, Lugosi & Benjamin, LLP, where she handled a variety of trademark, copyright and right of publicity transactions and litigation. Ms. Mankey was trial and appellate counsel for Comedy III Productions, Inc., in the case of Comedy III Productions, Inc. v. Saderup , 68 Cal. App. 4th 744 (1998). Ms. Mankey joined Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, LLP in March 1999, and thereafter became counsel for amici curiae Wayne Enterprises, Inc., Sheffield Enterprises, Inc., Global Icons, LLC, Groucho Marx Productions, Inc. and Bela G. Lugosi in connection with the California Supreme Court's review of the Comedy III case, which ultimately became the seminal California case on right of publicity law. Comedy III Productions, Inc. v. Saderup, 25 Cal.4th 387 (2001), cert. denied, 122 S. Ct. 806 (2002). Ms. Mankey was also counsel for Comedy III Productions, Inc. in the reported case of Comedy III Productions, Inc. v. New Line Cinema, 200 F.3d 593 (9th Cir.), rehearing denied (2000).

As a member of the intellectual property practice group at Christensen Glaser, Ms. Mankey has represented clients in a variety of intellectual property litigation matters. Ms. Mankey also handles a variety of other complex business litigation matters.

Ms. Mankey has published the following articles regarding the right of publicity: Life After Death, Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, April 1999, at 41, and Commercial Speech Disorder, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Dec. 15, 1998, at 6. She also contributed to the law review article California Expands the Statutory Right of Publicity for Deceased Celebrities While Its Courts Are Examining the First Amendment Limitations of that Statute by Bela G. Lugosi, DePaul J. of Art & Ent. Law, Vol. X, No. 2 (Spring 2000).