Practice Areas
Personal Injury
Products Liability
Additional Practice Areas
  • Coverage Litigation
  • Federal Multi-District Litigation
  • Life, Disability, ERISA
  • Products Liability Litigation
  • Products Liability Litigation »
Professional Experience
Education
The College of Charleston
B.A
M.Ed., 1981, The College of Charleston, J.D., 1986, The University of South Carolina School of Law.
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Professional Associations
Current
Activities: Permanent Member, U
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Current
Activities: Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference (2003-present)
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Current
Activities: North Carolina Bar Association: Professionalism Committee (1997-present) (Chair 2004 to present)
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Current
Activities: Trial Practice Curriculum Committee (2002 to present)
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Current
Activities: Member, Defense Research Institute (DRI), Life Health Disability/ERISA Law Committee, Product Liability Committee
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Current
Activities: Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC), Board of Directors (1996-2000), Executive Committee (1998-2000), Corporate Advisory Board (2000-2004)
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Current
Activities: North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys (NCADA), Board of Directors (1998-2001
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Current
Activities: 2003-present)
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Current
Activities: American Bar Association, Litigation, Torts and Insurance Practice
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Current
Activities: Forsyth County Bar Association
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Current
Activities: Admitted to the bar 1986, North Carolina
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Current
Activities: Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Western, Middle and Eastern District Courts of North Carolina
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Current
Activities: the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
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Current
Activities: and the United States Supreme Court
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Current
Activities: Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating: "AV", since 1998
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Current
Activities: Selected as a &ldquo
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Current
Activities: North Carolina Super Lawyer&rdquo
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Current
Activities: (2006) by Law and Politics magazine
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Contact & Map
One West Fourth Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Telephone: (336) 721-3723
Fax: (336) 733-8412