North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Kinston attorney David J. Fillippeli Jr. has been elected chairperson of the Lenoir County Board of Education. Fillippeli, a Wilmington native, practices law with White & Allen. His practice is concentrated in litigation with an emphasis on criminal, domestic and ...

Attorney Sean Bartlett Sandison has joined Hancock, Nance & Overbey as an associate. A graduate of Mercer University School of Law, Sandison served as the editor-in-chief of the Law Review and was previously employed with the U.S. Department of Housing ...

The UNC School of Law recently honored four alumni at its annual Carolina Law Alumni Gala and Banquet. The Distinguished Alumni Award was presented to Karen LeCraft Henderson, a former Chapel Hill practitioner who now serves as a judge in ...

A new Justice Fund in memory of Calder Willingham Womble will benefit graduates of the Duke University School of Law who have dedicated their careers to legal aid work. A Justice Fund is a named endowment that honors North Carolina ...

Moore & Van Allen has been recognized for its work with Fortune 1,000 companies by earning a place on the BTI Top 100 Client Service A-Team list for 2009. The annual survey, conducted by BTI Consulting, Inc., provides a ranking ...

Hunton & Williams partner David R. Fricke has been elected to the Law Alumni Council of the Wake Forest University School of Law. The council, which is the consultative alumni board, represents the law school’s 5,300 alumni. Fricke, who received ...

Katherine A. Forrest has been named an associate at White & Allen. Forrest, who has practiced law in New Bern for the last four years, will focus her practice on real estate. She completed her undergraduate education at Florida State ...

Charlotte attorney B. Irvin Boyle, 96, died Nov. 3. Born in Augusta, Ga., in 1912, Boyle was raised in Charlotte and received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina. He was admitted to the Bar ...

Robin Ledbetter Hinson, 77, died Oct. 13. A Rockingham native, Hinson graduated from Davidson College magna cum laude in 1953 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy, he enrolled in the ...

Charlotte attorney Deborah Fletcher recently co-authored the second edition of Bankruptcy: A Survival Guide For Lenders. The handbook addresses bankruptcy issues, procedures and strategies for lenders and other creditors. Fletcher, a partner in Kilpatrick Stockton’s Charlotte office, is a member ...