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Andrew F. Sabourin
Huntersville, NC Attorney with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning
Massachusetts School of Law
Attorney Andrew Sabourin is the Owner of Lake Norman Wealth Counsel. Lake Norman Wealth Counsel, is a full-service estate planning law practice based in Huntersville, North Carolina. Lake Norman Wealth Counsel focuses exclusively on helping clients with estate planning matters. By concentrating on this single area of law, they have developed deep and broad knowledge to apply to every client need. They represent clients who seek to protect assets now and into the future, preserving their hard-earned legacy for their heirs.
Lake Norman Wealth Counsel can set up trusts for yourself, your spouse or your children so that your assets...
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Thomas Pleasant
Raleigh, NC Attorney with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice and Nursing Home
Attorney Thomas W. Pleasant is licensed to practice in North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee. He focuses his practice on helping victims of catastrophic injury and their families in wrongful death matters. He assists in complicated nursing home abuse and neglect cases as well as medical malpractice, birth injuries, and traumatic brain injury cases. He is AV Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell for his high standards of client care. He is also listed in Super Lawyers®, has years of experience in jury and medical trials, and is committed to doing everything he can to achieve full and fair compensation for all...
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Carl Massey Jr
Lewisville, NC Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP and Patents
Boston University School of Law
After training initially with one of the top biotech patent groups in the U.S. and practicing in large general practice firms for over 20 years, Carl has the experience to meet the intellectual property needs of startups, mid-size R&D companies, large biotherapeutic and pharmaceutical companies, and top tier, research-intensive universities. He enjoys doing single-project work, as well as comprehensive counseling and portfolio development for startups and growing companies.
Carl counsels scientific founders on initial protection strategies for their platform technology (timing, scope of disclosure, landscape analysis, ownership issues), develops licensing programs for biotechnology, and evaluates lifecycle management programs for marketed human...
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J. Michael Malone
Raleigh, NC Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Environmental, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury
University of North Carolina School of Law
J. Michael Malone is a Raleigh, North Carolina lawyer that represents people injured as a result of someone's negligence or intentional acts. Mike represents injury victims across the State of North Carolina and has handled complex injury cases in most of the counties in North Carolina.
Mr. Malone focuses on complex personal injury cases including tractor-trailer wrecks motorcycle accidents, bicycle wrecks, car wrecks, burn injuries, insurance disputes, nursing home and assisted living abuse and mistreatment, pedestrian accidents, and virtually any other type of serious injury claim.
Mr. Malone also handles class action cases including insurance disputes and evacuation and...
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Len Mueller
Raleigh, NC Lawyer
Divorce and Family
Campbell Law School
Len C. Mueller graduated in 1982 from North Carolina State University with a B. S. in English, and graduated in 1985 from The Campbell University School of Law with her J. D. She has been practicing domestic law in Wake County since that time. Ms. Mueller was certified as a specialist in the area of family law by The North Carolina State Bar in 1994. Ms. Mueller is also certified as a Family Financial Mediator. Ms. Mueller credits her former law partners, prominent local attorneys, Richard (“Rick”) Gammon and Russell W. DeMent, for her success as a trial lawyer. She...
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Marcus Edward Hayes
Greensboro, NC Attorney with 36 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
Campbell Law School
When you are injured in an accident, there is only one chance to get it right. With over 25 years in practice, Marcus E. Hayes, Sr., has the experience and performance record to guide clients through the difficult maze of insurance and legal negotiations. As a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Marcus has the track record you want. Membership in this organization is comprised of attorneys in the United States who have recovered million dollar verdicts or settlements for their clients. While not a guarantee of similar results, clearly Marcus has the right stuff to tackle the...
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Anita Powers
Wallace, NC Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Criminal Defense, Estate Planning and Family
North Carolina Central University School of Law
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Gena Walling McCray
Louisburg, NC Attorney with 21 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Estate Planning and Family
University of South Carolina School of Law
Ms. McCray loves the practice of law and enjoys helping people. She was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina and attended South Carolina College (the University of South Carolina's honors college) receiving undergraduate degrees in English and Psychology. Ms. McCray graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in Columbia, South Carolina. During law school, she clerked for Judge C. Tolbert Goolsby at S.C. Court of Appeals and interned one summer in Raleigh for the North Carolina Family Policy Council where she gained intimate knowledge of the legislative process in North Carolina. During her third year, she clerked...
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M. Bryan King
Goldsboro, NC Lawyer
Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
North Carolina Central University School of Law
Bryan's practice focuses primarily on probate, estate administration and estate planning matters. He guides his clients through the probate process including qualification of personal representatives, estate inventories and accountings, and special proceedings.
Bryan's practice also includes representation of individuals and families in guardianship matters.
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Angie Stoker Rogers
Yadkinville, NC Lawyer
Business, Probate, Real Estate and Traffic Tickets
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
Community connections run deep for Angie, whose family has lived in the Yadkin Valley region for several generations. As a former prosecutor and founder of the Public Interest Law Foundation during law school, where she attended on a prestigious merit-based scholarship, Angie has a deep passion for protecting the most vulnerable in the community. That abiding sense of commitment, alongside her sharp legal judgment and astute attention to detail, makes her an effective legal advocate for her clients.
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Chad Brown
Mooresville, NC Lawyer
(800) 556-9115
131 Plantation Ridge Dr
Suite 100
Mooresville, NC 28117
Free ConsultationAppeals, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chad joined Partin, Patton & Brown in July 2004 and became a Partner in January 2009. His practice focuses in the areas of Social Security Disability and personal injury. Chad is a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Social Security Disability Law. Chad attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999) where he was an Articles and Notes Editor for the North Carolina Banking Law Institute and Journal. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Robert F. Orr on the N.C. Supreme Court and served as an Assistant District Attorney...
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Jonathan Dean Griffin
Statesville, NC Attorney with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Traffic Tickets
North Carolina Central University School of Law
For all your Family Law and Criminal Defense needs, Call Jonathan! - (704) 873-5500
Since earning his law degree with honors in 2001, Statesville, North Carolina, attorney Jonathan D. Griffin has dedicated his professional energies to advocating vigorously for clients in Iredell County and the surrounding area. Today, our extremely active, thriving practice at Griffin Law, PLLC, is focused on divorce, child custody, criminal defense, DWI, and traffic law.
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Heather E. Fox
Statesville, NC Attorney with 4 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Traffic Tickets and White Collar Crime
Liberty University School of Law
Heather Fox is a highly skilled and dedicated criminal defense attorney based in the heart of Iredell County, North Carolina. With a passion for justice and a commitment to defending the rights of individuals facing legal challenges, Heather has earned a reputation as a tenacious advocate both inside and outside the courtroom. For Heather, every case is an opportunity to make a difference, protect rights, and seek justice.
Heather was born and raised in Statesville, North Carolina. She is a double graduate from Liberty University, having completed her Bachelor’s degree in English in 2016 and her Juris Doctor in 2020. After...
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Thomas P Morris
Statesville, NC Lawyer
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Liberty University School of Law
Originally from Poughkeepsie, NY, Tom now calls Charlotte, NC home with his wife and four kids. A seasoned criminal defense and family law trial attorney, Tom has made a name for himself in handling extremely contentious custody cases and high-level felonies. He has handled cases in both federal and state courts.
Tom went to law school at Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, VA, where he graduated cum laude. While in school Tom interned at the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia. While at the USAO, Tom helped prosecute all levels of criminal cases, from misdemeanor...
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Anthony S. Privette
Statesville, NC Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Business, Personal Injury, Real Estate and Workers' Comp
Campbell Law School
Mr. Privette has developed a diversified law practice and is capable of handling your legal needs. He is experienced in business and civil litigation, advising clients with respect to establishing business corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships as well as buying or selling a business, assisting clients with employment issues such as wrongful denial of benefits (unemployment, disability, or workers compensation), discrimination and sexual harassment.
Mr. Privette represents individuals who have suffered the effects of personal or workplace injuries and represents clients zealously to ensure that they attain the compensation they deserve. He offers clients real estate services including but not...
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Robert Morton
Raleigh, NC Attorney with 28 years of experience
Business, Construction, Foreclosure Defense and Real Estate
North Carolina Central University
Raleigh corporate lawyer Bob Morton is a true business and civil litigation generalist. He has successfully tried multiple civil jury trials. He regularly assists his business clients with planning, litigation avoidance, employment matters and virtually all other legal matters that his business clients face.
Bob believes that providing personal service and going the extra mile for clients isn’t just a good way to do business — it’s the only way to do business.
He has been featured as a consumer advocate on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” has served Three Terms as Chairman of the local Better Business Bureau (BBB), been recognized as...
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Glenn S. Doyle
Raleigh, NC Attorney with 26 years of experience
Divorce, Domestic Violence, Family and Personal Injury
Campbell University
Family Law and Divorce attorney with 16 years of experience. Lecturer for over 5 continuing legal education seminars teaching other attorneys about family law and divorce.
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Thomas E Fulghum
Durham, NC Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Immigration
Duke University School of Law
I am a Board Certified Specialist in Immigration Law. I am fluent in Spanish. I assist families, businesses, and individuals in finding solutions to their immigration problems.
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Rebecca Adlam Olla
Raleigh, NC Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Appeals, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
The University of Texas School of Law
Attorney Rebecca A. Olla was raised in Austin, Texas. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and her Law Degree from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin.
Before joining The Bishop Law Firm, Rebecca worked for the Texas State Office of the Attorney General and the U.S. District Court of Southern New York.
After working for the government (by the people), Rebecca refocused her practice to represent clients in federal appeals in U.S. District Court (for the people).
Through her prior legal experience, Rebecca has learned that lawyers are needed to ensure positive outcomes for their...
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Angela Darlene Vandivier-Stanley
Fayetteville, NC Attorney with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
Angela was born in Connersville, Indiana in 1970. She was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 2000. Angela practices law in the following areas: workers’ compensation and personal injury. She attended Ball State University (B.S., 1993); Thomas M. Cooley Law School (J.D., 1999) Memberships/Associations: North Carolina State Bar Association; Onslow County Bar Association; North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers and North Carolina Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section.
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Abbie Alejandro Rosario
Charlotte, NC Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
I am a Supervising Attorney at Lively Law Firm specializing in immigration law.
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Amelia Nicole Patton
Winston-Salem, NC Attorney with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationSocial Security Disability
Wake Forest University School of Law
Amelia joined Partin, Patton and Brown in August 2003 and became a partner in January 2009. Her practice focuses in the areas of Social Security Disability and Long Term Disability. Amelia is a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Social Security Disability Law. Amelia attended law school at Wake Forest University School of Law (2003) and joined Partin, Patton and Brown after her graduation. As a law student, Amelia was active in the Public Interest Law Organization and Guardian Ad Litem program. Amelia is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, North Carolina Bar...
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Ana S. Nunez
Raleigh, NC Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense and DUI & DWI
North Carolina Central University School of Law
Ana S. Nuñez practices in both our Criminal Defense and our Immigration practice areas. She was recruited from the Public Defender’s office in Wake County. Being an immigrant herself, she understands the importance of having an advocate in your corner when you need it the most. Fluent in Spanish, Ana serves on the Governor’s advisory council on Hispanic/Latino affairs, she has been named a Top 40 Under 40 Attorney by the National Trial Lawyers, and she was recognized with the Citizen Lawyer Award by the NC Bar Association for exemplary public service to her community. She is a graduate of...
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Julie Vergara
Winston-Salem, NC Attorney
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Wake Forest University School of Law
Becoming a lawyer has been part of Julie Vergara Duque’s game plan since childhood. From the time she enrolled in law school, she knew she wanted to use her expertise to improve other people’s lives and help them navigate legal challenges.
In 2024, she joined the Deuterman Law Group as an associate attorney in the workers’ compensation practice, working primarily out of the Winston-Salem office. As a native Spanish speaker, she will focus her practice on cases involving Spanish-speaking clients who have been injured on the job.
Julie’s family immigrated from Colombia when she was a child, and an attorney’s work on...
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Matthew Stauff
Raleigh, NC Attorney with 18 years of experience
Divorce, Domestic Violence, Employment and Family
Roger Williams University School of Law
Matthew Stauff believes the practice of law is a privilege that requires him to fight for those needing advocacy during life’s most trying times. He represents clients in divorce proceedings, child custody hearings, and defends those who have been wrongfully terminated from their jobs. During his nearly seven years with Legal Aid of North Carolina he developed extensive experience in family law, employment law, and civil litigation. While court is an option in many cases, Matthew believes that working matters out amicably through settlement leads towards a longer lasting outcome that is more cost-effective and efficient outcome.
Born and raised in...
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Kathleen Putiri
Raleigh, NC Attorney with 23 years of experience
Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
Campbell University
It doesn’t take more than a phone call to learn that this Asheville native is a tenacious, straight-talking lawyer who won’t back down from your fight.
Kathleen has an uncanny ability to meld unembellished honesty with compassion. You will always know what to expect on the road ahead–and no matter the challenge–you’ll feel confident knowing Kathleen is on your team.
After graduating from Campbell University Law School, Kathleen worked alongside some of the most respected family law attorneys in the Triangle. Absorbing her colleagues’ tenured wisdom and meshing it with her own style, Kathleen has helped clients find hope–even when they had...
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Eleanor Panetti
Winston Salem, NC Lawyer with 36 years of experience
(336) 724-2600
102 West Third Street, Suite 650
Winston Salem, NC 27101
Divorce, Estate Planning and Family
University of North Carolina School of Law
Eleanor Panetti is a Winston-Salem lawyer who has been practicing family law for nearly three decades. Eleanor provides comprehensive legal counsel to men and women involved in family law disputes, to spouses creating and expanding families through adoption, and to those protecting and caring for children of family members. She is skilled and experienced in all matters related to divorce, custody and paternity, property settlement and support, the legal issues unique to the LGBT community, and those specific to senior populations.
Eleanor is passionate in her representation of people involved in family disputes, whether through divorce, supporting parents through child custody...
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James Stroud
Winston-Salem, NC Attorney with 44 years of experience
(336) 724-2600
102 West Third Street, Suite 650
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Business, Elder, Estate Planning and Family
Wake Forest University School of Law
Keith Stroud is a 25+ year veteran of the practice of law. Keith supports businesses in the Triad, spouses going through a separation and divorce, individuals and couples through estate planning, executors and administrators handling the estate of a loved one, and seniors and their family members in long term care and asset protection matters. He provides a straightforward and comprehensive approach to legal representation, and offers unique solutions designed to meet the goals of his clients.
While Keith’s practice is structured to help his clients avoid litigation, he is first and foremost a trial lawyer. His civil and past criminal...
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Drew Richards
Davidson, NC Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
University of Wisconsin - Madison
I enjoy working with clients to seek a just resolution of their dispute. Sometimes disputes can only be resolved by engaging the legal process through the courts, which I routinely do when necessary. My practice is concentrated on business ownership and control disputes, real estate and construction disputes (liens, payment and performance bonds, defective work claims, mediation and arbitration), summary ejectment and eviction proceedings, employment disputes, personal injury, and contract disputes.
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Barri Payne
Durham, NC Attorney with 26 years of experience
Family
University of North Carolina School of Law
Barri Hilton Payne was born in High Point, North Carolina and grew up in Davidson County. She attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she majored in Religious studies and Sociology. Barri practiced for the last twelve years as a founding partner in the firm Brock, Payne & Meece, P.A. before opening her own solo law and mediation practice in 2013. Barri was involved with the Holderness Moot Court while in law school at UNC and earned her law degree in 1999. She has practiced in Durham, North Carolina since that time and concentrates her practice on...
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Ronald Bradly Balaban
Charlotte, NC Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
People turn to an attorney when they need help dealing with a problem that has become too large for them to handle on their own. Every day, I see clients in difficult situations they did not create, dealing with pain they didn’t have before, trying to pay for medical expenses they can’t afford. And all the while, a large corporation or auto insurance company is trying to minimize what the victim is going through.
As an attorney licensed in North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., Brad represents personal injury clients in cases throughout the Mid-Atlantic States. He began his legal career...
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Eric S Meredith
Charlotte, NC Lawyer with 16 years of experience
In developing my philosophy in how I practice law, I realized from the beginning that people are coming to me because they need help and they trust me to help them in their time of need. I enjoy doing what I do because it provides me with an opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. Quick Facts about Eric Eric is a scratch golfer. Eric is an avid University of Tennessee football fan.
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Leto Copeley
Raleigh, NC Attorney with 40 years of experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
Harvard Law School
Leto has many years of experience litigating cases for plaintiffs in the North Carolina state and federal courts. Her practice is now concentrated primarily on representing victims of crime, particularly sexual abuse. She also handles catastrophic personal injury cases.
Leto has received widespread recognition for the effectiveness of her work. She has the highest rating (AV) for legal ability and ethical standards given by Martindale-Hubbell. She has been listed in Best Lawyers in America and in North Carolina Super Lawyers, where she has been named multiple years as one of the top fifty women lawyers in...
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Michael Yin
Greensboro, NC Attorney with 6 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Family
University of North Carolina School of Law
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Sara Ellen Barlowe
Chapel Hill, NC Attorney with 8 years of experience
Divorce and Family
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Sara Barlowe is an associate attorney at Bagwell Holt Smith where she practices in the Firm’s Family Law department. Sara joined the Firm in July of 2020 shortly after relocating to the Research Triangle area from Astoria, Queens with her family and their two cats. While in New York, Sara worked as an Assistant District Attorney with the Bronx District Attorney’s office where she focused primarily on domestic violence and special victims cases with the exception of a year-long stint in the office’s Special Investigations Division where she handled long-term wiretap investigations.
Sara received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Benjamin...
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Andrew S Bullard
Chapel Hill, NC Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
Michigan State University
Originally from Grand Haven, Michigan, Andrew Bullard attended the University of Michigan, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science. He later attended Michigan State University College of Law and obtained his J.D. in 2010. Andrew Bullard primarily practices estate planning, estate administration, special needs law and guardianships at the firm. Andrew’s experience includes assisting individuals and families as they navigate the process of planning and administering estates and trusts. Additionally, he guides fiduciaries through their duties in the probate process and helps families plan for the care of loved ones with long-term special needs. Andrew takes...
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Jason Edward Spain
Chapel Hill, NC Attorney with 11 years of experience
Estate Planning, Personal Injury, Probate and Workers' Comp
DePaul College of Law
Mr. Spain was admitted to the State Bar in 2013 and practiced as an estates and business law attorney prior to joining BHSPA in 2018. Jason focuses on Estate Planning and Probate law, helping clients plan for their family’s future and to assist clients in administering the estate of a loved one. He also is proficient in helping small business owners set up business succession plans that will allow their companies to be passed on to the next generation and help provide financial security for their families in the event of retirement, death, or disability.
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Allison Dunlap
Greensboro, NC Attorney
Free ConsultationDUI & DWI and Traffic Tickets
Elon University School of Law
After growing up in Kernersville, NC, Allie attended Campbell University where she was a member of the Women's Soccer Team and received a B.S. in Business Administration. From Camel to Phoneix, she went on to attend the Elon University School of Law where she obtained her Juris Doctorate in December 2019.
Allie has successfully completed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s course on DUI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, a 24-hour course taught to officers trained in DWI investigations.
Allie married her High School sweet heart, Landon, in 2020. They enjoy being outdoors; watching sporting events (Go Canes!); and...
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J. Carter Whittington
Fayetteville, NC Lawyer with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Campbell Law School
Carter Whittington concentrates his practice in North Carolina workers’ compensation law, helping injured workers seek the benefits they need and deserve after sustaining a job related injury.
Whittington started working at Hardison & Cochran while he was a third-year student at Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law. After graduating cum laude and receiving his J.D. in 2016, he joined Hardison & Cochran as a full-time attorney.
A North Carolina native, Whittington grew up in Winston-Salem and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a B.A. in political science in 2012. In law school, Whittington was...
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Kellie Corbett
Cary, NC Attorney with 9 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Kellie Corbett chose the University of South Carolina for her undergraduate degree for two reasons: the pageantry of big-time college football and the fact she hates snow. She got the pageantry but it came with snow – a freak storm, 8” of the stuff, her freshman year.
There’s a lesson there but we’re not exactly sure what it is — yet.
Kellie was accepted at the University of North Carolina School of Law where she became the first law student in the history of American law schools (that dates back to 1793) to fall in love with Trusts and Estates while taking...