Attorneys

Current Employment Position(s):

Managing Partner

Year Joined Organization:

1985

Areas Of Practice:

Agriculture Law

Business & Commercial Law

Business Organizations

Construction Law

Contracts

Debtor/Creditor

Elder Law

Election Campaign & Political Law

Estate Planning

Insurance Law

Land Use & Zoning

Landlord/Tenant

Litigation & Appeals

Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff

Personal Injury -- Plaintiff

Probate & Estate Administration

Real Estate Law

State, Local & Municipal Law

Trusts

Wills

Litigation Percentage:

50% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions:

North Carolina, 1979

U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina, 1979

Education:

Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston Salem, North Carolina

J.D.

Law Review: Board of Editors, Wake Forest Law Review, 1977 - 1979

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, 1973

B.A.

Major: Political Sience

Navy Supply Corps School, Athens, Georgia, USA, November, 1973

Published Works:

Admission of Arbitrator's Depositions and Testimony to Prove Misconduct or Fraud, 13 Wake Forest Law Review 803, Wake Forest Law Review, 1977

 

Standing Based on Collateral Civil Consequences, 14 Wake Forest Law Review 231, Wake Forest Law Review, 1978

Representative Cases:

Action Community Television Broadcasting Network, Inc. v. Livesay, 151 N.C. App. 125, 564 S.E.2d 566 (2002)

 

NC Farm Bureau Mutual Ins. Co. v. Harrell, 148 N.C. App. 183 (Court of Appeals of North Carolina 2001)

 

Pridgen v. Hughes, 347 N.C. 269, 493 S.E.2d 657 (1997)

 

Long v. Long, 119 N.C. App. 500 (Court of Appeals of North Carolina 1995)

 

Cole v. Etheridge, 340 N.C. 110, 456 S.E.2d 312 (1995)

 

Heritage Hospital v. Peek, 335 N.C. 167 (Supreme Court of North Carolina 1993)

 

Proctor v. NC Farm Bureau Mutual Ins. Co., 324 N.C. 221 (Supreme Court of North Carolina 1989)

 

Perry v. Aycock, 68 N.C. App. 705 (Court of Appeals of North Carolina 1984)

 

State vs. Mears, 54 N.C. App. 666 (Court of Appeals of North Carolina 1981)

Representative Clients:

Glenoit Corporation

Trico Electric Co., Inc.

Sprint

Murdock Webbing Co., Inc.

Action Community Television Broadcasting Network, Inc.

Alpha International, Inc.

References:

RBC Centura Bank & Trust

The Heritage Bank

Investors Title Ins. Co.

Statewide Title

Tarboro-Edgecombe Chamber of Commerce

First Carolina State Bank

Professional Associations and Memberships:

American Bar Association, 1979 - Present

 

North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1979 - Present

 

North Carolina Bar Association, 1979 - Present

 

7th District Bar, 1979 - Present

 

Nash-Edgecombe Bar Association, 1979 - Present

Past Employment Positions:

United States Navy, Navy Supply Corps Officer, May 11, 1973 - May 13, 1976

 

Evans & Rountree, Attorney, August 19, 1979 - December 31, 1984

Ancillary Businesses:

Chair, Edgecombe County Board of Elections

Fraternities/Sororities:

Phi Alpha Delta

Birth Information:

September 10, 1951, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America