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Practice(s): Bank Litigation, Antitrust, Business Torts, Securities Litigation, Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Professional Malpractice Born: Raleigh, North Carolina, 1939. Admitted to bar: 1966 North Carolina. Education: Davidson College (A.B., 1960); University of North Carolina (M.B.A., 1961); Wake Forest University (L.L.B., 1966); Editor-in-Chief, Wake Forest Law Review (1965-1966). Member: Forsyth County, North Carolina (Board of Governors, 1997-2000), and American (House of Delegates, 1988-92) Bar Associations; Permanent Member, Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; North Carolina State Bar (President, 1986-87); North Carolina Courts Commission (1982-85); North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys (President 1978-79); North Carolina Legal Services Corporation, Board of Directors (1981-84); North Carolina Prepaid Legal Services Corporation, Board of Directors (1984-87); North Carolina State Bar Board of Continuing Legal Education (Chair, 1987-90); North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission (Vice Chair, 1990-96); Board of Law Examiners of the State of North Carolina (2002- ); Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group for United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (Chair, 1991-94); Founding Member, Chief Justice Joseph Branch Inns of Court; Business and Personal Injury Litigation Listing, The Best Lawyers in America (1991-); Business North Carolina Magazine "Legal Elite," named Best in Litigation in 2006. Author: Note, "Pretrial and Discovery," 5 Wake Forest Law Review 95 (1966); numerous legal seminars. Civic Activities: Youth Opportunity Homes, Board of Directors; Wake Forest University Law Alumni Association, National President, 1979; Young Life of Winston-Salem, Board of Directors; Davidson College Board of Trustees; Wake Forest Law School Board of Visitors; Davidson College Alumni Association, National President, 1985; Winston-Salem Rotary Club, Board of Directors; Enrichment Center, Board of Directors; Vestry and Senior Warden, St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. | 