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Practice(s): Business Torts, Contracts Litigation, Condemnation/Eminent Domain, Appellate Practice, Civil Litigation, Legal Malpractice, Personal Injury, Personal Liability, Professional Malpractice, Unfair Competition, Property Tax Litigation
Born: Salisbury, North Carolina, 1950.
Admitted to bar: 1980 North Carolina.
Education: East Carolina University (B.S., magna cum laude, 1972; M.A. Ed., 1977); Wake Forest University (J.D., cum laude, 1980); Member, Wake Forest Law Review (1979-80).
Clerkship: Honorable Hiram H. Ward, United States District Judge, Middle District of North Carolina (1981-84); Honorable Russell A. Eliason, United States Magistrate Judge (1980-81).
Member: Forsyth County and North Carolina Bar Associations; 21st Judicial District Bar Ethics and Grievance Committee (2003-2004); United States Army (1972-75); United States Army Security Agency (1972-75).
Civic Activities: Forsyth County Bar Association, President-Elect; North Carolina Bar Association Professionalism Committee; American Red Cross of Northwest North Carolina, President of Board of Directors, 2001-2003; American Red Cross of Northwest North Carolina Blood Services Committee; Stop Child Abuse Now, Vice President, Board of Directors, 2006-; Piedmont Irish Children's Summer Program, Board of Directors, 1991-2000; Pheresis Blood Donor; Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts, Board of Directors, 1996-2001, President of Board of Directors, 1999-2001; Recognized as one of "The Best Lawyers In America" (2004- ) in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law, Professional Malpractice Law.
Admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. | 