Caleb Hodge

Associate

Areas of Practice

Caleb Hodge is an associate attorney at RPWB who focuses on class actions, personal injury, product liability and mass torts.

His work has helped coal miners in West Virginia who have been diagnosed with silicosis, coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, and progressive massive fibrosis. In addition to that work, Hodge’s work has benefitted consumers throughout the United States who have been harmed by illegal and unscrupulous corporate conduct. He has also helped families and injury victims in state and federal courts throughout South Carolina in a variety of cases.

Hodge, a native of Johnson City, TN, clerked for RPWB as a law student and was hired upon his graduation. While in law school, he served on the editorial staff of the Wake Forest Law Review and as a judicial extern to The Honorable Louis A. Bledsoe III of the North Carolina Business Court.

Hodge is also a contributing author of the chapter on the Fourth Circuit in the Survey of Federal Class Action Law: A U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit-by-Circuit Analysis (Elizabeth J. Cabraser & Fabrice N. Vincent, eds., American Bar Association 1st ed. 2018), a perennial bestseller publication of the American Bar Association.

In his spare time, Hodge enjoys spending time with his wife and son and going to the beach.

Education

Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., 2019
- AAJ Trial Team
- Editorial staff of the Wake Forest Law Review
Wake Forest University, M.S. in Business Analytics, 2024
Clemson University, B.S. in Economics, 2016

Admissions

2020, South Carolina
2020, West Virginia
2020, Southern District of West Virginia
2021, District of South Carolina
2021, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

Professional Memberships

South Carolina Bar
South Carolina Association for Justice
West Virginia Bar
West Virginia Association for Justice

Representative Cases

Complex Business Disputes

Jim is counsel in Global Communications Inc. v. PDI Communications Inc. et al., in which it is alleged that DirecTV infringed upon key patents that enable the satellite provider to use a single dish unit to broadcast multiple channels throughout each customer’s house.

Mutual Fund Litigation

As fund assets grow, the cost of managing a mutual fund does not increase as exponentially as revenues generated by fees do. Jim serves as counsel in cases on behalf of investors against mutual fund advisors for charging excessive fees. A number of his cases have resulted in settlements to investors, and his work has caused some mutual funds to initiate reforms, including fee breakpoints and better oversight by boards of directors.

Insurance Industry Risk Calculations

Jim is counsel in class action litigation against AIG for its methodology of calculating a company’s risk when determining workers’ compensation premiums. The insurance company used a rolling three-year average of paid claims, but failed to consider the portion of those claims that was ultimately recouped from the at-fault party’s insurance company and other sources.

Securities Markets

Jim is counsel in a proposed class action against seven major banks for allegedly colluding in private chat rooms for years to manipulate prices in the $5 trillion per day forex market, which impacted both spot prices and futures contracts. The case, Teel v. Bank Of America Corporation et al, was filed on behalf of investors who bought foreign currency futures. It is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.