Gregory L. Skidmore has joined Robinson Bradshaw as a litigation partner, representing Fortune 100 corporations and other clients in complex commercial litigation. Nathaniel T. “Nate” Quirk has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as of counsel in the Charlotte office, where he ...

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Tom Pennington, former general counsel of Americans for the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi has joined Moore & Van Allen of Charlotte as a member. Moore & Van Allen of Charlotte has launched a sports law practice called MVA Sports. Black Slaughter ...

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The North Carolina Bar Association has named a new executive director to replace Allan Head, who is retiring after 43 years at the NCBA, including the last 35 as executive director. Jason Hensley, a Morganton attorney who is senior counsel ...

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Robert L. Wilson and Patricia A. Markus have joined the health care team at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Raleigh. FordHarrison, a management-side labor and employment law firm, has opened an office in Charlotte. Initial attorneys are managing partner ...

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The North Carolina Business Court has added a new judge to its bench. Michael Robinson, managing partner of Robinson & Lawing in Winston-Salem, will head the court’s newest branch at the Wake Forest University School of Law. He is expected ...

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Kearns Davis, a partner with Brooks Pierce in Greensboro, was sworn in June 25 as president of the North Carolina Bar Association at its annual meeting in Charlotte. Davis succeeds Shelby Benton of Goldsboro and is the NCBA’s 122nd president. ...

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Sharita Whitaker, an attorney with Smith Anderson of Raleigh, recently won a top award in the Chambers and Partners’ inaugural Chambers Diversity Awards. Whitaker won in the Future Leader – Minority Lawyers (Private Practice) category. Erin Jane Illman, an associate ...

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The North Carolina Advocates of Justice, the state’s largest association of trial lawyers, elected a new crop of leaders at the group’s annual convention in Wilmington on June 17. Bill Powers, a criminal defense attorney with Powers McCartan in Charlotte, ...

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Former North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Martha Geer has joined Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, a national plaintiffs’ firm, the firm announced May 16. Geer will be a partner and serve as head of the firm’s new North Carolina ...

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Matt Rhoad, a partner with Smith Anderson of Raleigh, has been elected president of Chapter 31 of the International Right of Way Association for a one-year term. Smith Moore Leatherwood has opened a new office in the BB&T Building in ...

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