Jim Cooley

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Attorney at Law

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

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Davidson College

B.A

1969

cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, McConnell Scholar, J.D., with honors, University of North Carolina School of Law, 1973, Member, Associate Justice, Holderness Moot Court, Member, National Moot Court Team, North Carolina Law Review, Union Theological Seminary, N.Y., 1969, 70, Rockefeller Brothers Fellow.

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Activities: Bar Associations: Mecklenburg County Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association: Litigation Section

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Activities: Constitutional Law Section, Chair, Large Law Firm Committee, 1997-1998

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Activities: American Bar Association: Litigation Section and Business Law Section

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Activities: Member, Select Drafting Committee of the N

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Activities: Board of Bar Examiners, 1986-1993

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Activities: Board of Directors, Legal Aid Society of Northwest North Carolina, Inc

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Activities: , 1983-1987 and Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont, 2001-2007 (President 2004-2006)

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Activities: Clinical Adjunct Professor of Law, Wake Forest University (Trial practice), 1982-1987

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Activities: Member, International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution

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Activities: Admitted to the bar 1973, North Carolina

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Activities: Admitted to practice before the United States Eastern, Middle and Western District Courts of North Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court

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Activities: Elected to: Chambers USA (Litigation)

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Activities: Best Lawyers of America (Bet-the- Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation)

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Activities: Super Lawyers (Business Litigation)

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Activities: Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (AV rating)