The fiery train derailment last week in West Virginia brought back painful memories for the residents of a small South Carolina town that experienced a railway tragedy a decade earlier.

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Attorney Ruby Rucker Cooper comes from a prominent family in small-town Lancaster, South Carolina. The fifth of eight children, her father is a well-known dentist and her mother was an elementary school teacher before becoming a full-time homemaker. Cooper recently ...

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A conversation with Vernetta Alston, the rookie attorney who helped free an innocent man from death row

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H. Gerald Beaver is a senior partner with Beaver, Holt, Sternlicht and Courie in Fayetteville. A native of Albemarle, Beaver received his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1973. He spent two years as a public defender for the 12th Judicial District before entering private practice in 1975.

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Kearns Davis is a partner with Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard in Greensboro. Davis leads the firm's practice in the areas of white-collar criminal defense, felony trials and appeals, grand jury proceedings and government investigations. He is also an adjunct professor in trial advocacy at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

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Raleigh lawyer D. Caldwell Barefoot Jr. officially opened Barefoot Family Law on Aug. 1. Before striking out on his own, Barefoot spent 15 years as an attorney with Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton.

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A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, Mark Davis is special deputy attorney general in the N.C. Department of Justice. [...]

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