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AREAS OF PRACTICE

Construction Law and Commercial Litigation

• Advises and represents contractors, owners, sureties and subcontractors regarding contracts, claims and dispute resolution.
  
  
• Frequent Lecturer and author on construction-related topics, including constructive change clams, public contracting and dispute resolution. Co-author of Fundamentals of Construction Law and “Last Acts or Omissions that Trigger the Statute of Repose”, N.C. Bar Association Construction Law Section Newsletter, June 2003.
  
  
• Litigates a variety of commercial disputes including construction manufacturing, banking, insurance, real estate, sales and noncompetition agreements.
  
  
• Extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, commercial and construction arbitration.
  
  
• Admitted to practice in North Carolina, before the United States District Courts of the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of North Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. 
   
  
  
  EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
  
  
• J.D., with honors, University of North Carolina School of Law, 1978; Law Review 
  
  
• B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Wake Forest University, 1975
  
  
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