Alex Hagan Releases Managing Partner

RALEIGH, NC—Alex J. Hagan was recently elected as Ellis & Winters’s Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer. Alex is one the firm’s founders and has served on its Management Committee for several years. Before taking on his new leadership role, he served as the practice area leader for the Litigation Team. Alex’s diverse practice focuses […]
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CLIMB Hires Casey Burke As First Executive Director

CHARLOTTE, NC—CLIMB (Charlotte Legal Initiative to Mobilize Businesses, Inc.) is pleased to announce Casey Burke will serve as its first executive director. An experienced pro bono lawyer dedicated to expanding access to legal services, Burke joins CLIMB from the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, where she managed the organization’s pro bono unit. As executive director […]
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Womble adds depth to international bench with corporate partner

RALEIGH, N.C.—Womble Bond Dickinson announced today that Hideki Akiyama has joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities group in Raleigh. A trusted advisor to Japanese companies doing business in the U.S., Akiyama focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters, labor and employment matters, and dispute resolution. He grew up, studied, and has worked […]
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Ken Burgess Appointed to the North Carolina State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators

RALEIGH, NC—Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina has appointed Ken Burgess of the national law firm Baker Donelson to the North Carolina State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators (NCBENHA). This is the second appointment in as many years for Mr. Burgess by Governor Cooper, as he was appointed to the Governor’s Advisory Council […]
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Baker Donelson continues to grow with the addition of corporate attorney Scott Bowers

RALEIGH, NC—The national law firm of Baker Donelson continues to grow its Raleigh/Research Triangle, North Carolina, office with the addition of Scott Bowers, a shareholder in the Firm’s Corporate Group. Mr. Bowers concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, commercial real estate development, and renewable energy project development and finance. In handling his […]
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Lawdragon Recognizes three Moore & Van Allen Litigation members

CHARLOTTE, NC—Moore & Van Allen PLLC (MVA) is pleased to announce that based on their outstanding talent and leadership in litigation members John A. Fagg, Jr., James “Jim” P. McLoughlin, Jr., and Frank E. Schall have been recognized within two recently released Lawdragon 500 guides. For the second year in a row, Fagg, who co-leads […]
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Elon University opens new regional center and announces new law program in Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Elon University today officially opened its new regional center in South End and announced plans to offer a part-time Elon University School of Law Juris Doctor degree program in Charlotte. The Elon Law Flex Program, to be offered exclusively at the Elon University in Charlotte regional center, will be the only in-person law program […]
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Poyner Spruill Welcomes Two New Attorneys

RALEIGH, N.C.—Poyner Spruill LLP is pleased to announce that Adia Craig* and Tia Overway* have joined the firm’s Raleigh office. Craig is an associate in the firm’s Employment Section. She works on a wide range of employment related issues, including discrimination, harassment, and workplace privacy issues. Overway focuses her practice on civil and commercial litigation […]
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Elizabeth Ligon joins James Scott Farrin’s Workers’ Compensation Practice

DURHAM, NC—Elizabeth Ligon has joined the workers’ compensation practice of the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin where she will be fighting to protect the rights of injured workers. She has dedicated her legal career to the practice of workers’ compensation law.
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Emily Larrabee joins Cranfill Sumner LLP

RALEIGH, NC—Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced that Emily Larrabee has joined the firm’s Raleigh office as an associate attorney. She is a litigator with experience in both state and federal courts representing licensed professionals including attorneys and accountants against malpractice actions and transportation providers in general liability matters. She previously practiced in the Philadelphia area […]
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Dominic Totman Joins Cranfill Sumner LLP

RALEIGH, NC—Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced that Dominic Totman has joined the firm’s Raleigh office as Of Counsel. He focuses his practice on Business and Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Health Care Law, and Estate Planning. He provides transactional and relationship-based representation and has extensive experience in business purchases, sales, transitions and restructurings of all […]
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Moore & Van Allen welcomes Daniel Young to the Economic Development Department

CHARLOTTE, NC—Moore & Van Allen PLLC (MVA) is pleased to announce that Daniel Young has joined the firm as Director of Economic Development. In this role, he will leverage his many years of experience serving as executive director of the South Carolina Coordinating Council for Economic Development (CCED) to help lead MVA’s nationally recognized Economic […]
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