Practice Areas - Trial Practice
- Business Litigation
- Labor and Employment
- Unfair Business Practices
- Appellate Practice
| - State and Federal Personnel Law
- Professional and Occupational Licensing
- Constitutional Law
- Civil Rights
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| University | Georgetown University, Engalitcheff Institute of Comparative Political and Economic Systems, 1987; Elon University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1989 |
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| Law School | Valparaiso University, J.D., 1992 |
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| Admitted | 1992, North Carolina; 1993, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina; 2000, U.S. District Court, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; U.S. Court of International Trade; U.S. Tax Court; U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Memberships | Wake County (Board of Directors, 2009-2011) and North Carolina (Member, Litigation, Labor and Employment Law Sections) Bar Associations; North Carolina Advocates for Justice (Member, Employment Law and Civil Rights Sections); National Employment Lawyers Association; National Institute for Trial Advocacy (Master Advocate). |
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| Biography | Listed in: "Best Lawyers in America" for Commercial Litigation (2010—) and Employment Litigation (2012—); North Carolina Super Lawyers "Top 100" Attorney (2009); Business North Carolina magazine's "Legal Elite" (2007—); Charlotte Magazine/Law & Politics as a "North Carolina Super Lawyer" (2006—). Recipient, Triangle Business Journal's "Forty Under Forty" Leadership Award (2005). Extern, Hon. Sidney S. Eagles, Jr., N.C. Court of Appeals, (1990); Extern, U.S. Senate, Foreign Relations Committee (1988). Inducted: Alpha Chi; Pi Gamma Mu; Phi Delta Theta. Griswold-Watts Scholar. Fellow: North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership (1996); Leadership Triangle (1998); Leadership North Carolina (2001). Charter Fellow: Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society; Braxton Craven American Inn of Court (President, 2009-2010), Duke University School of Law. |
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| Reported Cases | Newberne v. Dep't. of Crime Control & Public Safety, et al., 359 N.C. 782, 618 S.E.2d 201 (2005); Caldwell v. Leavitt, Administrator of EPA, 378 F. Supp 2d. 639 (M.D.N.C. 2005); Trayford v. North Carolina Psychology Board, 619 S.E.2d 862 (2005), aff'd, 360 N.C. 396, 627 S.E. 2d 462 (2006). |
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| ISLN | 900903524 |
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