Avery County Lawyers

Our law firm is one of very few firms in the extended region with an entertainment law emphasis. We represent celebrities, authors, athletes, filmmakers, television companies, production companies, screenwriters, post-production facilities, entertainment companies, and actors. We are currently serving as production counsel on several television projects and feature-length motion pictures. We also represent corporate clients including in the sports, fashion, and entertainment industries.

Benjamin A. Snyder is a North Carolina State Bar Certified Immigration Law Specialist and partner at Charlotte Immigration Law Firm.

Mr. Snyder manages Charlotte Immigration Law Firm's employment and investment-based immigration practice. His work includes preparing and filing nonimmigrant visa petitions and applications, such as for E, H, L, O, P, R, and TN visas, as well as employment-based immigrant visa matters, including PERM based EB-2 and EB-3 petitions, and petitions for multinational executives and managers, outstanding researchers, those with extraordinary ability, EB-2's with National Interest Waivers (NIW), and religious workers. Mr. Snyder has experience representing clients in virtually all manner...

Jefferson Mabrito is a North Carolina bankruptcy attorney committed to providing personal service to individuals seeking debt relief. Prior to developing his bankruptcy practice, Jefferson worked in corporate finance, where his principal practice involved the representation of commercial banks and other financial institutions in a variety of financing transactions. He received his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas, and received his Master of Laws (LL.M) with distinction from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, U.K. Jefferson is also a magna cum laude graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

“My personal experience and frustration with the traditional divorce model inspired me to find an alternative more holistic and non-adversarial approach to divorce. I created ROAD to RESOLUTION to provide a place where cooperation and collaboration are cultivated and the best interest of the family remains the focus. My goal is to guide people, individually or as a couple, toward resolution.” Robin Perrigo - Founder ROAD to RESOLUTION

Kayleigh L. Messersmith is an attorney licensed to practice law in North Carolina. She has a broad legal background with experience in Worker’s Compensation, Personal Injury, Compliance, Real Estate, and Lien Resolution. Currently, Kayleigh concentrates her practice in civil litigation and lien resolution for our personal injury and worker’s compensation cases

Bucknell University (1999); Case Western Reserve University School of Law (2002) AV Peer Review Rating (Martindale-Hubbell)

Harold is a North Carolinian who has spent his entire life serving our community. He joined Greenwood Law as an Associate Attorney in July of 2018 and he focuses on DUI’s/DWI’s, other types of criminal law, and juvenile criminal law. Harold was an Assistant District Attorney in Forsyth County where he prosecuted various criminal offenses from impaired driving to violent crimes. Harold served as one of the county’s juvenile court prosecutors and also was the lead prosecutor in the county’s Veteran’s Treatment Court, which he helped to create. This court focuses on getting veterans, charged with crimes, the help...

Our goal at the Law Offices of Rick D. Lail is excellence in servicing. We seek to have a personalized business relationship with our clients where we are intimately familiar their portfolios and are easily accessible.

Prior to joining Ralston, Benton, Byerley & Moore in 2021, Catherine worked as an insurance adjuster for two large national insurance companies, where she gained valuable insight and experience on the innerworkings of claim handling. Thereafter, Catherine became an insurance defense attorney, where she represented a variety of insurance companies and employers against claims filed against them. In 2016, Catherine switched sides and began representing individuals in personal injury and workers’ compensation claims. Using her experience and insider knowledge, she now works vigorously to ensure each client is receiving all the benefits they are entitled to. Catherine’s practice primarily focuses...